There is no issue.  I have never read about an issue on the lists.  But
apparently there might be an issue if we don't come up with a standard
naming...  so..  yeah..

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 03:43:10PM -0500, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> I would recommend local rules are named based on your initials.  That's been
> the collision avoidance for nearly 2 decades.  Does that not solve the issue 
> at
> hand?
> 
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 14:53 John Hardin <[1][email protected]> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, 16 Jan 2020, RW wrote:
> 
>     > On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:37:48 +0200
>     > Henrik K wrote:
>     >
>     >> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 03:03:40PM +0000, RW wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>>> It would seem more productive to actually make spamassassin --lint
>     >>>> output info messages (not errors) when rules are redefined.  And
>     >>>> perhaps add a new tflag "redefine" (suggestions?) to suppress
>     >>>> those warnings for intentional redefines.
>     >>>
>     >>> That requires actual coding, and it only partially works.
>     >>>
>     >>> Let's say I have local rules:
>     >>>
>     >>> body  __FOO ...
>     >>> meta  FOO   __FOO ...
>     >>> score FOO  0.001
>     >>>
>     >>> and then in the middle of the night sa-learn downloads new rules:
>     >>>
>     >>> header  __FOO ...
>     >>> meta    BAR   __FOO ...
>     >>> score   BAR  3.0
>     >>>
>     >>> My high-FP informational version of __FOO then gets used in place of
>     >>> the core version in a high scoring meta rule.
>     >>
>     >> And --lint would say
>     >>
>     >> Notice: rule __FOO redefined, check what's going on or use tflags
>     >> redefine
>     >
>     > And that would only be noticed after the FPs.
> 
>     +1
> 
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