Bug#154294: [ITP]: amavis-ng -- AMaViS - Next Generation

[Hilko Bengen]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: amavis-ng
  Version : 0.1.4
  Upstream Author : Hilko Bengen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/amavis
* License : GPL
  Description : AMaViS Next Generation
   This is a modular rewrite of AMaViS (A Mail Virus Scanner) that
   allows for integration into several MTA setups: Exim, Exim with
   embedded Perl in system filter, Sendmail+Milter, Postfix, running
   as an SMTP daemon, Qmail. AMaViS-ng pulls MIME messages apart and
   then uses a third-party virus-scanning engine to detect malicious
   code.
   .
   Besides the free File::Scan, CLAM Antivirus, OpenAntiVirus
   ScannerDaemon, a number of non-free virus scanning engines is
   supported.
   .
   All configuration can be done at run-time.


I am currently in the NM queue. Marc Haber has agreed to sponsor this
package.

As the main author, I have provided a debian/ subdirectory in the
source tarball. It can be downloaded from:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/amavis/amavis-ng-0.1.4.tar.gz

A preliminary Debian package can be downloaded from:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/amavis/amavis-ng_0.1.4_i386.deb

Lintian gives me a lot of error messages, mostly
perl-module-in-core-directory, binary-without-manpage, and
suidregister-used-in-maintainer-script; they will of course be fixed
before uploading.

-Hilko



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Bug#154294: ITP]: amavis-ng -- AMaViS - Next Generation

[Brian M. Carlson]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:31:31PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote:
 As the main author, I have provided a debian/ subdirectory in the
 source tarball. It can be downloaded from:
 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/amavis/amavis-ng-0.1.4.tar.gz
 
 A preliminary Debian package can be downloaded from:
 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/amavis/amavis-ng_0.1.4_i386.deb

I looked at this package. Part of the dependencies read as follows:

 Recommends: unarj (=2.63), unrar, zoo, arc, lha
 
None of those packages are in main. In fact, they are all in non-free,
except for arc, which does not exist in unstable. Yet you state
the Section: as admin. This is a violation of Policy 2.1.2 which states,
in part:

 In addition, the packages in _main_
* must not require a package outside of _main_ for compilation or
  execution (thus, the package must not declare a Depends, 
  Recommends, or Build-Depends relationship on a non-_main_
  package),

Therefore, it is acceptable for this package to be in contrib, or
possibly for you to place those as Suggests:, although we should not
encourage the use of non-free software. You could alternatively remove
those dependencies if they are not essential to the working of the
program.
 
 Lintian gives me a lot of error messages, mostly
 perl-module-in-core-directory, binary-without-manpage, and
 suidregister-used-in-maintainer-script; they will of course be fixed
 before uploading.

This is one of those errors lintian just won't warn you about. ;-)

Otherwise, I'm elated, and I'm waiting for the package to be released.

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