On 11/30/2014 12:09 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 30.11.2014 um 20:50 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt:
When the fix to allow older SA versions to silently accept the new
rule updates is a simple TEXT modification of 2 text Perl modules, you
are overreacting
no - i react correctly
* the problem was introduced with sa-update
* the problem has to be fixed with sa-update
problems have to be fixed at the root cause instead work around
downstream, that's a bad attitude and lead to problems sooner or later
Ah, but is this really a problem? I guess the $64K question is, does
the new rule that's version dependent increase the "spam catch" Because
if it does, then I don't regard it as a problem. Instead, I
want it!
if there would be a official SpamAssassin 3.4.1 we could discuss about
distributions should rapidly update their packages or even apply patches
local
But, is that going to help most of the people complaining about the
problem? They still will have elderly Perl versions. If 3.4.1 requires
a newer Perl version they will be stuck at 3.4.0 since their maintainers
won't update. If new version-dependent rules require new
Perl versions then what?
until that happened rule-updates must not rely on features not supported
by the current GA version and hence i *really* don't get the point of
that discussion
If the new version dependent rule update gives the spamfighting
community a significant compelling advantage against the spammers, then
Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead!!!! I'll happily put in 2
minor patches to take advantage of the rule! What I spend in possible
headache doing that will be more than made up by the increased spam I
don't have to deal with!!
Ted
