[Pkg-dspam-misc] Bug#418736: dspam: New upstream release (3.8.0) available

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: dspam
Version: 3.6.8-5
Severity: wishlist

Version 3.8.0 of dspam is now available:

  http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/download.shtml

We should probably treat this new release as an opportunity to think
through some of the packaging questions that have come up on the list
over the last couple months.

In particular, we should think about what configurations we want to
support and encourage with our packaging.  I've already documented
problems with daemon mode, related to its LMTP handling and its use in
conjunction with the hash driver.

It would probably be a good idea to provide a default configuration in
lenny that doesn't run afoul of these problems (unless they're fixed
in 3.8.0).

does anyone have a test rig that they can use to really slam a dspam
installation?  I'm concerned that, as a link in the MTA chain, it
needs to be really robust under high loads and there are certain
configurations which 3.6.8 (at least) has fallen down.

	--dkg


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dspam depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdspam7                   3.6.8-5      DSPAM is a scalable and statistica
ii  libldap2                    2.1.30-13.4  OpenLDAP libraries
ii  procmail                    3.22-16      Versatile e-mail processor
ii  sensible-mda                8.13.8-3     Mail Delivery Agent wrapper

Versions of packages dspam recommends:
pn  clamav-daemon                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  dspam-doc                     3.6.8-5    Documentation for dspam

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