On 5/16/2011 3:08 PM, [email protected] wrote:
On 05/16, Mark Martinec wrote:
IMO the distribution-specific packaging stuff has no right to be
kept in a generic Unix/Linux/Windows package like SpamAssassin
and should be wiped out entirely. The package maintainers know
their job and their distribution most intimately and should have a
full jurisdiction over their packaging. Having two alternatives offered
is just confusing to end-users.
The reason I think it's useful to have the debian build stuff included is
for people who want to use versions that have not yet been packaged by
distributions, but want a cleaner install than "make install" or cpan
provides. You just run "dpkg-buildpackage" from the directory extracted
from the tarball and get a nice clean binary .deb package.
My hope is to keep the debian build stuff in SpamAssassin's source repo in
sync with the released Debian packages. Which is looking pretty easy. And
I'd ask the Debian maintainers to help.
I would again suggest a README pointing to the location of these files
for people to grap if they so deem necessary rather than another
requirement to maintain.
RedHat packaging stuff is included, and, I believe up to date
(spamassassin.spec, spamd/redhat-rc-script.sh).
I have no idea if these are up-to-date but I doubt it. They likely are
a good starting point, though.
regards,
KAM
