Thank you for the feedback. > 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.
I don’t mean to impose anything or supplant the other package. I have myself used spamass-milter happily for almost three years. It was a very minor complaint that made me take a closer look (a warning message during startup that cannot be suppressed). And that is when I realised that spamass-milter is a child of its time, 20 years ago. It was originally written for sendmail (not Postfix) targeting an old version of libmilter that didn’t support connection negotiation, the ‘skip’ option, preserving whitespace in headers, etc. So I decided to write a new milter from scratch. The feature set is not (yet) the same though. If you’re interested you can compare the implementations, both programs are quite small. Perhaps it is possible to have both packages for a while and find out if users are interested in the alternative … I don’t know how such a situation is usually handled in Debian. I’m interested, but if I’m the only one, I agree that there is no need for the package. -- David
