Am 30.11.2014 um 22:13 schrieb John Hardin:
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Reindl Harald wrote:5) make the condition to the SA version, there are already ton's of "if (version > = 3.004000)" rules and so it needs just to depend on SA bigger than 3.4.0 instead of the perl check why that would work? well, older RHEL versions as you said won't upgrade SA or perl that setups would not use the rule, recent ones wouldAnd anyone who is running SA prior to 3.4.0 on perl newer than 5.8.8 (where it would run just fine) does not get the benefit of the rule, and anyone running 3.4.0 on perl 5.8.8 (which is entirely possible) has their sa-update lint blow up and they don't get *any* new rules. The assumption "newer SA = newer perl" is not really justified
true - at the end of the day "we" need to draw a line and outweight benefit/drawbacks for each case
the final conclusion can even be "the benefit of a specific rule is not high enough to beat out the drawbacks" until all possible and reasonable conditions are evaluated
maybe the same rule result could be achived with a not that nice syntax working with older SA as well perl versions and if that's not possible the question "is it really worth the trouble" remains
what i mean if there is no better solution: there is hardly a new rule that from one day to the next will stop a reasonable large amount of spam not already caught by the summary of other rules
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