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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