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

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mardi 19 juillet 2005 à 15:30 -0400, David Woodhouse a écrit :
> On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 09:12 -0500, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> > amavisd-new (which I'm working on right now) and spamassassin both
> > want this:
> > 
> > http://ftp.kspei.com/pub/steve/rpms/perl-Mail-SPF-Query-1.997-1.src.rpm
> 
> We should fix SpamAssassin not to use it by default -- SPF is a _very_
> broken concept. http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html
> 
> While you _can_ contrive non-harmful ways to use SPF, it really isn't a
> very good idea for us to be packaging it, shipping it, and generally
> making it easy for people to use it. It's major intended usage is
> fundamentally broken.

On one hand you're right, on another I trust the spamassassin developers
to give the SPF tests the weight they deserve, and not having added this
dep if it didn't help a bit.

Most of the sa tests are euristics anyway. sa works because their
results are cross-referenced

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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