I'm one of the SpamBayes developers and in a half-assed way try to keep track of SB dribbles on the net via a saved Google search. About a month ago I got a hit on an Ubuntu bug tracker about a SpamBayes bug. As it turns out, Ubuntu distributes an outdated (read: no longer maintained) version of SpamBayes. The bug had been fixed over three years ago in the current version. Had I known this I could probably have saved them some trouble, at least by suggesting that they upgrade.
I have a question for you people who develop and maintain Python-based packages. How closely, if at all, do you monitor the bug trackers of Linux distributions (or Linux-like packaging systems like MacPorts) for activity related to your packages? How do you encourage such projects to push bug reports and/or fixes upstream to you? What tools are out there to discover which Linux distributions have SpamBayes packages? (I know about rpmfind.net, but there must be other similar sites by now.) Thx, -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
