Package: opendmarc
Version: 1.4.2-5
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
Installing opendmarc pulls several dozen Mio worth of
dependencies, a database client in particular.
This database client, and almost all of the other heavy
dependencies as well, are only needed for the regular sending of
aggregate reporting to the mail servers that have been the victim
of attempted spoofing attempts. This is a functionality that is
potentially of interest to very few people.
In comparison, the milter part of opendmarc actually needs very
little. The two binaries opendmarc and opendmarc-check, relying on
the libopendmarc and libspf shared libraries, implement the part
of the DMARC protocol needed to decide whether to reject a spoofed
mail.
For this reason, it would be desirable to split the two
functionalities into two distinct packages : opendmarc, that would
only contain the milter service, and opendmarc-reporter, that
would ship the utilities needed for the reporting. Only the second
package would depend on the database client and would need debconf
during configuration.
This split is actually quite easy to implement. It turns out that
the configuration option "--with-sql-backend" has no effect at all
on the produced binaries (only on the perl scripts), so the rules
file can stay almost unchanged. It is simply a matter of
distributing each executable (and their associated manpage) in the
relevant package. I have implemented this split in
https://salsa.debian.org/ricorambo/opendmarc, and I have tested it
(only installing and using the milter part).
If you have the time, would you consider reviewing those changes
and eventually integrating them ? I am aware that it is not going
to be possible for trixie.
Do not hesitate to ask if anything I've done is unclear.
Best,
Aymeric
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