Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock
We briefly discussed spamassassin 3.4.6-1 as a new upstream release for bullseye in #987022. To quote the original request: > If it was completely up to me, I'd want 3.4.6-1 released with bullseye. > It will be better supported by upstream and contains all the relevant > bug fixes. IMO it's less likely to introduce any new regressions than a > 3.4.5-pre1-4 with relevant changes pulled back from upstream's svn. > However, it's late in the freeze and I fully understand the policy wrt > to new upstream releases. At the time, we decided to go with 3.4.5~pre4-4, and consider 3.4.6-1 afterward. At this point, 3.4.5-pre1-4 is in bullseye, and it has an RC bug related to service management under sysvinit (or is sysvinit not RC, by definition?), so an another is needed. The fix involves deleting some code from postinst that was always intended to go away before bullseye, and is part of a transition to a sane approach to spamd service management. 3.4.5~pre4-5 is prepared as a minimal fix to 3.4.1~pre4-4. As I stated previously, I'd much prefer to support 3.4.6-1 for the course of bullseye's lifetime. So my preference would be to upload 3.4.6-1 to unstable and get it into bullseye. 3.4.5~pre1-4 incorporates quite a few changes (13) from 3.4.6 in the form of debian patches adapted from cherry-picked upstream commits, so we'd get to drop all of those. Most of the rest of the changes in the debdiff are related to the rulesets, which are updated nightly upstream and commonly refreshed on a similar schedule on deployed systems via the sa-update facility, or release administrivia and housekeeping (svn branch management, updating the Apache logo, updating version strings, spelling corrections, etc). The 3.4.6-1 debdiff is at https://people.debian.org/~noahm/spamassassin_3.4.6-1.debdiff The 3.4.5~pre1-5 debdiff is at https://people.debian.org/~noahm/spamassassin_3.4.5~pre1-5.debdiff I haven't uploaded either to unstable yet. Thanks noah