On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:57:35AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > SA only depends on perl >= 5.6, so perhaps the deps could be changed to
> > only require the newer libhtml-parser-perl if perl 5.8 is being used.
> OK, you have shown that it would be possible in this specific case.
> But perhaps the next version of SpamAssassin will _require_ Perl 5.8
Surely it makes more sense to solve the problems we can, instead of
ignoring all the problems because there are some hypothetical ones we
can't solve?
> Besides this, you can install the 2.60-1 spamassassin deb on stable, but
> you can't fulfill the build dependencies (debhelper), which would become
> a nightmare if there would e.g. be a security update required.
Packaging spamassassin with the debhelper in woody surely isn't that
difficult.
Cheers,
aj
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