I believe Philippe is the package maintainer, so it's up to him I guess. :-)
On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 06:35:07AM -0500, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > +1 and over and above by Henrik to install the distro for testing. > > Our project cannot be responsible for the decisions of the distribution > package > maintainers. This is definitely one that is not the right decision. > > Do we have a contact at Gentoo? > > Regards, KAM > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2022, 04:38 Henrik K <[1]h...@hege.li> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 01:57:20PM -0500, Philippe Chaintreuil via users > wrote: > > On 12/25/2022 4:38 PM, Sidney Markowitz wrote: > > > I can get exactly that set of error messages by commenting out the > > > loadplugin for URIDNSBL in rules/init.pre or deleting the file > > > rules/init.pre completely, and running make test with the default > > > setting of run_net_tests=n in t/config.dist. If I change it to > > > run_net_tests=y then the test t/uribl.t also fails where it tries to > use > > > check_uridnsbl > > > > Gentoo disables all plugins in init.pre so users have to choose which > > plugins to use and do any required configuration after install. > > As mentioned on bug: > [2]https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=8095 > > It's completely baffling why and how Gentoo does this. It only disables > loadplugins in init.pre, and not other *.pre files. This is already a bug > in itself by not being consistent. > > I even installed Gentoo to check what the fuss is about. There is no > mention from installer or wiki that users need to go enable plugins in > /etc/mail/spamassassin/*.pre files, which are almost universally used by > default on every other distribution. > > The workaround for Gentoo installer is NOT TO MODIFY SUCH SOURCE FILES > DIRECTLY. If you want to confuse users with non-standard defaults, pretty > sure you can figure out how to modify the files without touching the > originals, which the test system makes use of. :-) > > > > References: > > [1] mailto:h...@hege.li > [2] https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=8095
