Control: reassign -1 spamassassin/3.4.0-3
Control: tag -1 upstream patch
-=| Francois Marier, 06.11.2014 12:15:02 +1300 |=-
> While I hesitate to bump the severity of this bug to the highest one, it
> does break unrelated software (spamassassin).
Spamassassin depends on libnet-dns-perl. That's not unrelated
software. mutt would be an example of unrelated software.
> As it stands, several features of SpamAssassin are broken in sid and
> jessie due to the unusual version number.
>
> The SpamAssassin upstream have said that this is not a bug in SA but that it
> comes from the fact that a pre-release version of Net::DNS was uploaded to
> Debian.
I think that SA should not use numeric comparison operators for things
that aren't numbers.
The query for Net::DNS' version could be fixed as:
use version 0.77;
$txtdata_can_provide_a_list = version->parse(Net::DNS->VERSION) >=
version->parse('0.69');
> I assume this can be fixed by uploading the next upstream release of
> Net::DNS?
... or by patching lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/AskDNS.pm in SA. Note
that version 0.77 is provided by perl from version 5.10.1 on.
Reassigning back since (1) IMO the bug lies in SA and (2) even if
Net-DNS 0.81 reaches testing, SA needs an upload anyway with bumped
dependency version. Not sure what severity to choose, so leaving that
to SA maintainer.
I could prepare a full-blown debdiff with the above patch if that
would help.
-- dam
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