Package: spamassassin Version: 3.2.0-2 Severity: normal The docs are not really clear on how sa-compile is integrated with the rest of the package. After reading them I was left wondering:
1. Will a compiled ruleset prevent an upgraded ruleset from being seen? I see that the compiled ruleset is put in a versioned directory in /var, but I'm unsure that would happen if a rule was changed w/o the upstream version changing. 2. If I enable the cron job, will it compile the ruleset every day for me? (I read the code and found it does, although it also /dev/nulls any errors, which I don't like.) 3. What do I need to do on upgrade? Apparently the postinst does not run sa-compile, so it seems I'd need remember to run sa-compile by hand unless I enable the cron job. IMHO, it would be good to run sa-compile in the postinst if re2c is available and /var/lib/spamassassin/compiled exists. BTW, the README.Debian has some old text about sa-update being manual and "quite new", which seems outdated now that there's a cron job. Thanks for your work in integrating these new features into the spamassassin package. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-xen-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages spamassassin depends on: ii libarchive-tar-perl 1.31-1 Archive::Tar - manipulate tar file ii libdigest-sha1-perl 2.11-2 NIST SHA-1 message digest algorith ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.56-1 A collection of modules that parse ii libio-zlib-perl 1.04-1 IO:: style interface to Compress:: ii libnet-dns-perl 0.59-1 Perform DNS queries from a Perl sc ii libsocket6-perl 0.19-1 Perl extensions for IPv6 ii libsys-hostname-long-perl 1.4-1 Figure out the long (fully-qualifi ii libwww-perl 5.805-1 WWW client/server library for Perl ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages spamassassin recommends: ii gnupg 1.4.6-2 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep pn libmail-spf-query-perl <none> (no description available) pn libsys-syslog-perl <none> (no description available) ii re2c 0.12.1-1 tool for generating fast C-based r pn spamc <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- see shy jo
