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Duncan Findlay writes:
> There's a big long thread on debian-devel about trying to get
> SpamAssassin 3.0.0 into sarge (which is not going to happen,
> FWIW).
> 
> There's a lot of grumbling about our API change without bumping the
> soname (which of course doesn't exist in perl...). People think we
> should have provided backward compatibility, somehow. There's even
> some absurd claims that spamassassin 3 breaks exim 4.

TBH, I think we *should* have provided more backwards compatibility;
there were a few cases where we could have made things a little
easier for users on those counts.   (For example, a "shim" NoMailAudit
class that just fronts for Message, parse(), etc.)

> However, among the topics discussed include a large number of
> developers claiming that SpamAssassin essentially crashed their system
> by using up way too much memory. jm, quinlan, I suspect you may be
> interested in these reports. I've linked them below:
> 
> Beginning of thread
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/10/msg00213.html
> 
> Tollef Fog Heen reports some pretty hefty memory usage here:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/10/msg00242.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/10/msg00302.html
> 
> The thread's pretty much dead, but if we could gain anything from it,
> that'd be good.

Might be worth getting Tollef Fog Heen to open an upstream bug so
we can figure out where those insane numbers are coming from :(

- --j.
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