Bug#988686: pre-approval: spamassassin/3.4.6-1
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
We briefly discussed spamassassin 3.4.6-1 as a new upstream release for
bullseye in #987022. To quote the original request:
> If it was completely up to me, I'd want 3.4.6-1 released with bullseye.
> It will be better supported by upstream and contains all the relevant
> bug fixes. IMO it's less likely to introduce any new regressions than a
> 3.4.5-pre1-4 with relevant changes pulled back from upstream's svn.
> However, it's late in the freeze and I fully understand the policy wrt
> to new upstream releases.
At the time, we decided to go with 3.4.5~pre4-4, and consider 3.4.6-1
afterward. At this point, 3.4.5-pre1-4 is in bullseye, and it has an
RC bug related to service management under sysvinit (or is sysvinit
not RC, by definition?), so an another is needed. The fix involves
deleting some code from postinst that was always intended to go away
before bullseye, and is part of a transition to a sane approach to
spamd service management.
3.4.5~pre4-5 is prepared as a minimal fix to 3.4.1~pre4-4.
As I stated previously, I'd much prefer to support 3.4.6-1 for the
course of bullseye's lifetime. So my preference would be to upload
3.4.6-1 to unstable and get it into bullseye. 3.4.5~pre1-4
incorporates quite a few changes (13) from 3.4.6 in the form of debian
patches adapted from cherry-picked upstream commits, so we'd get to
drop all of those. Most of the rest of the changes in the debdiff are
related to the rulesets, which are updated nightly upstream and
commonly refreshed on a similar schedule on deployed systems via the
sa-update facility, or release administrivia and housekeeping (svn
branch management, updating the Apache logo, updating version strings,
spelling corrections, etc).
The 3.4.6-1 debdiff is at
https://people.debian.org/~noahm/spamassassin_3.4.6-1.debdiff
The 3.4.5~pre1-5 debdiff is at
https://people.debian.org/~noahm/spamassassin_3.4.5~pre1-5.debdiff
I haven't uploaded either to unstable yet.
Thanks
noah
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