Bug#121205: amavis
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:16:03AM +0000, Graeme Mathieson wrote:
> > arc isn't available in Debian because of a non-free license.
>
> Ditto for freeze, which doesn't appear to have a license of any sort.
hmmm.. freeze doesn't seem to be used in my version...
> The reason I've been hanging back for so long is that the last version I
> looked at build-deps on a bunch of non-free packages (and packages that
> will never be in Debian). I was planning to modify it so that the
I think arc is the only one which will never be in debian. The other
archivers are in non-free. Which is a bit silly IMHO, as I don't really
expect to get any E-Mail compressed using arc anymore. Probably the same
applies with the other non-free methods too (lha, unarj, unrar zoo).
> configure script no longer checked for the existance of those binaries,
> but instead they were detected at runtime (or specified through some
> configuration file). That way, it could at least go into main[1].
Thats what I managed to do with the virus scanners.
(oh, as for scannerdaemon, it is a GPL based java virus scanner daemon.
I plan to package it for Debian ASAP, but upstream need to include some
missing files in the source code first).
Hmmmm good idea... Maybe I could do autodetect stuff with the
archivers, too.
I have some ideas on how this could be done, will look
at doing this for version -3.
> The other issue I wanted to think about was how to make it
> MTA-independent. But that's relatively hard, I guess. A working
> version for Postfix in woody is a great idea.
I think this would be hard to do without changing a lot of
upstream code... Soemthing I don't want to do.
Another idea I had has to generate several packages, eg:
amavis-postfix
amavis-exim
as these are probably the most popular MTAs.
> Feel free to upload and close the bug. At least this way, the Perl
> packages I've uploaded will finally be used. :)
Who me????
Seriously, I just have a few minor bugs to fix (I just realized my
build-depends doesn't list the non-free archivers, hence won't work),
and I can upload any time.
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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