Re: amavisd-milter: Request for review
Christian PERRIER wrote:
> In general, you can't really carry the idea that this is a "new"
> program. While in 2010, that makes sense and this is how you want to
> "sell" it, this is probably untrue in 2015 when this package is still
> in the archive but nobody remember about the "old" behaviour..:-)
AMaViS seems to have fossilised this problem into the name of its
only available version, amavisd-new. The old version died years
ago, but still occupies the amavis.org domain. It can't be long
before somebody produces amavisd-new-tng.
> So, my proposal is, in general, to forget about this idea, while still
> explaining the interesting features of this new implementation.
Agreed, sort of; but in 2010 it's so weird for amavisd-new-milter to
be the older one that I'd like to find some way of saying "yes,
that's right, this is the one that's newer".
> Package: amavisd-milter
> Architecture: any
> Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, amavisd-new (>= 2.4.3)
> Recommends: sendmail (>= 8.13.8-3) | postfix (>= 2.3.8-2+etch1)
> Conflicts: amavisd-new-milter
> Description: interface between sendmail-milter and amavisd-new
We should keep Sendmail out of the synopsis unless we're also going
to mention Postfix. And people may well not know what AMaViSd or a
milter are - we need something a bit more basic:
Description: virus scanner interface for email filtering
> This package provides a sendmail milter for amavisd-new to work
> with sendmail or Postfix, by use of the AM.PDP protocol.
Is it a "sendmail milter" if I use it with Postfix?
This package provides a milter for AMaViSd that works with Sendmail
or Postfix, using the AM.PDP protocol.
> .
> Compared to the former implementations, this version makes use of the
> full functionality of amavisd-new, such as the use of spam and virus
> information header fields, mails subjects rewrite, use of address
> extensions and selective recipient removal.
This was pretty good already... "instead of" didn't quite work, but
nor does "compared to" if you aren't going to hold up a specimen for
comparison. Also, let's have a full stop somewhere.
Replacing the older amavisd-new-milter program, amavisd-milter makes
use of the full functionality of amavisd-new. It supports using spam
and virus information header fields, rewriting message subjects,
adding address extensions, and selectively removing recipients.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
--- control.orig 2010-04-15 11:28:27.000000000 +0100
+++ control.jbr 2010-04-15 12:21:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -11,12 +11,11 @@
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, amavisd-new (>= 2.4.3)
Recommends: sendmail (>= 8.13.8-3) | postfix (>= 2.3.8-2+etch1)
Conflicts: amavisd-new-milter
-Description: New interface between sendmail-milter and amavisd-new
- amavisd-milter is a sendmail milter for amavisd-new and sendmail or postfix
- which uses the new AM.PDP protocol.
+Description: interface between sendmail-milter and amavisd-new
+ This package provides a milter for AMaViSd that works with Sendmail
+ or Postfix, using the AM.PDP protocol.
.
- Instead of the older amavisd-new-milter program, with amavisd-milter full
- amavisd-new functionality is available, including adding spam and virus
- information header fields, modifying subjects, adding address extensions
- and removing certain recipients from delivery while delivering the same
- message to the rest.
+ Replacing the older amavisd-new-milter program, amavisd-milter makes
+ use of the full functionality of amavisd-new. It supports using spam
+ and virus information header fields, rewriting message subjects,
+ adding address extensions, and selectively removing recipients.
Source: amavisd-milter
Section: mail
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Harald Jenny <harald@a-little-linux-box.at>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.9), libmilter-dev
Homepage: http://amavisd-milter.sourceforge.net/
Standards-Version: 3.8.4
Package: amavisd-milter
Architecture: any
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, amavisd-new (>= 2.4.3)
Recommends: sendmail (>= 8.13.8-3) | postfix (>= 2.3.8-2+etch1)
Conflicts: amavisd-new-milter
Description: interface between sendmail-milter and amavisd-new
This package provides a milter for AMaViSd that works with Sendmail
or Postfix, using the AM.PDP protocol.
.
Replacing the older amavisd-new-milter program, amavisd-milter makes
use of the full functionality of amavisd-new. It supports using spam
and virus information header fields, rewriting message subjects,
adding address extensions, and selectively removing recipients.
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