Re: spamassassin Debian package unsafe to use in stable?

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>]

El 9/6/25 a las 1:18, Vincent Lefevre escribió:
> Is the spamassassin Debian package unsafe to use in stable?
>
> The issue is that things related to spam evolves rapidly, but
> Debian stable is... stable.

Look at the version numbers:

spamassassin | 4.0.1-1~deb12u1    | stable                   | source, all
spamassassin | 4.0.1-3            | testing                  | source, all
spamassassin | 4.0.1-3            | unstable                 | source, all

At this moment, there is not a great difference between bookworm and trixie,
as both are based on upstream version 4.0.1.

If you are worried about obsolete built-in spam rules, you can also use
spamassassin as a framework to use other mechanisms (for example, razor),
and it can also do bayesian filtering.

(Disclaimer: I use razor + pyzor + bogofilter with procmail myself,
and have not used spamassassin in a long time).

Thanks.