Bug#121205: amavis
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 12:05:31PM +0100, Noel Koethe wrote:
> On Die, 12 Mär 2002, Brian May wrote:
>
> > What work (if any) has been done in the way of packaging amavis for
> > Debian?
Very little. I'm suffering from a lack of free time just now...
> 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.
> > If you want any help, I have a preliminary package of the amavisd CVS
> > code (which has support for scannerdaemon) available at:
> >
> > <URL:http://snoopy.apana.org.au/~ftp/debian/>.
Excellent, I'll take a look at it.
> > Its one limitation is that the deb package requires postfix.
>
> No problem for me.:) I build it for postfix, too.:)
Suits me fine. :)
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
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].
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.
Feel free to upload and close the bug. At least this way, the Perl
packages I've uploaded will finally be used. :)
[1] Packages in main can Suggest: non-free packages, right?
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