wolfgang wrote: > In an older episode (Saturday 14 May 2005 17:53), Matt Kettler wrote: > >>3.0.3 fixes some scoring issues in 3.0.2 and a few important >>bugs that 3.0.2 suffers from in terms of accuracy (mostly URI parsing for >>URIBLs). > > > after installing debian's SA 3.0.3 yesterday, I noticed that it lacks the > patches mentioned on
Thanks for the heads up on tht one wolfgang. Distro ports are such a mixed blessing. They're really good in that they maintain consistency with the default OS paths for things, keep the package dependency trees sane, etc. But they're also a bit evil because package maintainers, being merely human, inevitably screw up sometimes. Things like missing init.pre, putting the default.cf files in /etc/mail/spamassassin instead of /usr/share, mixing up files from different versions, are all mistakes that have been seen in different ports on this list. It's a good thing you keep an eye on your distro packages. That really helps mitigate the drawbacks of ports while taking advantage of their benefits.
