Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed On 2021-05-17 13:48:52 -0700, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > 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
Assuming that the upload happens soon, please go ahead with 3.4.6-1 together with the fix for #947086. Please remove the moreinfo tag once the new version is available in unstable. Cheers > > 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 > -- Sebastian Ramacher
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