On Mon, 16 May 2011, [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.
Or the RPM equivalent. I agree.
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