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

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Jul 19 15:52:43 UTC 2005


On Mar 19 juillet 2005 17:37, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>
> 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.

BTW you'll get the same kind of log trashing in rawhide sa if
perl-Mail-SPF-Query is not installed, so I doubt it'll stay in extras for
long. Seems it's a core dep now.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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