Request for approval: perl-Mail-SPF-Query and perl-Net-CIDR-Lite

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Jul 19 15:37:40 UTC 2005


On Mar 19 juillet 2005 17:29, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 10:24 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Steven Pritchard wrote:
>
>> >>  perl(Sys::Hostname::Long) >= 1.0
>> >
>> > Again, it's not really a build requirement, because we're not doing
>> > "make test".
>> >
>> > Besides, that's an optional module.
>> >
>> > 250  eval { require Sys::Hostname::Long };
>> > 251  $query->{myhostname} = $@ ? hostname() :
>> Sys::Hostname::Long::hostname_long();
>> >
>> >>  the latter is not yet included in Extras or up for review
>> >
>> > All that said, I don't mind whipping up a package for it...
>>
>> Please do, because as Nicolas noted, the result of not doing so is
>> horrible things in the maillog if you're a spamassassin user. If that's
>> done, it'd also be nice to add perl(Sys::Hostname::Long) >= 1.0 as a
>> Requires:
>
> On the other hand, if the log trashing only because of the two lines
> above (and/or other similar trivial things), patching it to just always
> use hostname() would be very easy.

Either way, it can't be uploaded as-is. The sa log trashing is terrible.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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