[Pkg-dspam-misc] Bug#369862: dspam_admin's "delete preference" sub-command causes infinite loop

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: dspam
Version: 3.6.6-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch


dspam_admin delete preference does not work.  it sends dspam_admin
into an infinite loop on any backend that uses flat files for storing
preferences.

i'm attaching a patch to fix the infinite loop in the various
backends.  

Also, the function call that invokes the backend storage driver
library miscounts its arguments, so (at least with hash_drv) no
preferences are actually deleted.  The attached patch also includes a
fix to this mis-invocation of the library call.

The patch should apply after fix-nav-performance.dpatch.

These changes have already been submitted and accepted upstream and
will hopefully be in the next revision of dspam (3.6.7?), whenever
that is released.

Thanks for maintaining debian's dspam!

	--dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages dspam depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.87       Add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdspam7                     3.6.6-1    DSPAM is a scalable and statistica
ii  libldap2                      2.1.30-13  OpenLDAP libraries
ii  procmail                      3.22-16    Versatile e-mail processor

Versions of packages dspam recommends:
pn  clamav-daemon                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  dspam-doc                     3.6.4-4    Documentation for dspam

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