On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 11:00:45AM +0100, David Bürgin wrote: > Debian already has package spamass-milter, which serves the same > function. This new alternative is not exactly the same: It does a few > things better (eg automatic macro negotiation, skipping large bodies), > some things differently (eg header handling logic, no forking), and some > things are (currently) left out. spamass-milter hasn’t been active for > many years, so this could also be a fresh start.
Do we need both packages in Debian? If, as you say, spamass-milter is orphaned upstream, maybe we should work to replace it with this new package? I'm not sure how our users benefit from having both, and the choice will undoubtedly lead to confusion. noah
