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Re: spamassassin Debian package unsafe to use in stable?



Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> 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.

Debian stable already has the current version of SpamAssassin:

| News and Announcements
| 
|     2024-03-29: Apache SpamAssassin 4.0.1 has been released!
[...]
<https://spamassassin.apache.org/news.html>

| thh@angmar:~$ apt show spamassassin
| Package: spamassassin
| Version: 4.0.1-1~deb12u1

> So its rules become obsolete, such as
> those that generate
> 
>   RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED
>   RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED
>   RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE_BLOCKED
> 
> while upstream gave them zero scores in May.

Rules are updated by the sa-update service, started e.g. by
| systemctl enable --now spamassassin-maintenance.timer
| systemctl start spamassassin-maintenance.service

Doing that, the scores are up to date:
| thh@angmar:~$ grep RCVD_IN_VALIDITY /var/lib/spamassassin/4.000001/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf
| score RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED 0
| score RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE 0
| score RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL 0
| #score RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE_BLOCKED 0.001
| #score RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED  0.001
| #score RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED 0.001

Kind regards,
-thh


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