From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LrA5A-00089f-9P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:07:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C595E045E; Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:07:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.152]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078A0E045E for ; Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:07:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 6so1872085yxn.46 for ; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:07:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ll52tHNdtbhzCvo9WUL+BOR9vfWssXQZN54ZoFsNdGY=; b=IgnH4Hc5K47ZJMevBmSNUwiGRWAOO/beY/Hma3FMraDlyZJffHjPqCMpMb6Ct6jR+m FjlGPazN/iybMkYkoLmnzsb3yC+pmCFe6FllEJx7WOK6mZ8x0Wzp+Hpu+ELD0wKwX4vV sy97rs6Om2iiH/c0HCvQHCX2o3XPAaD6cPSd8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OcGKj23u9IrKkvQLQuHpbUL+bTW+PN+UHbtWYitL1+/ruN3m06vpcJEit4eqdCQc0R 6XiuxYOXNqfX2lDf8E1fJkwm8YZwmU+6jwCDoyyR0nf/iQahTIupLg7/5NEe1NrL5ody 3NNKSohCEh8DG435/AKEu+LMWWfJos9lSWRZU= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.46.10 with SMTP id t10mr51805ant.151.1239106030598; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:07:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49DA953F.50701@83864.com> References: <49DA953F.50701@83864.com> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:07:10 +0100 Message-ID: <279fbba40904070507w2e807920mfc9ba2204ddc3f57@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] SpamAssassin From: Kerin Millar To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9a5cd067-427d-4209-9a7b-ed8fdc796546 X-Archives-Hash: 5b05b8b70f42979b71b96776972025a0 2009/4/7 Wendall Cada : > I run several production servers on Hardened Gentoo, and have a concern. > > The perl team has been awesome. I really love that packages are fairly > fresh compared to what is in cpan. However, there is one very important > package that's been ignored for far too long: SpamAssassin > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177144 > > Why has it been waiting for a mips keyword for almost two years? No > reply from mips. Pinging the bug has no effect, as seen with comments > #5-#8. Is the package abandoned? Is there some political issue with > Gentoo that keeps abandoned packages from being reassigned? I would love > to offer my help, but lately those offers have been flat rejected by > Gentoo devs. I guess my lips don't pucker well enough. I would like to > have this package dealt with. There are some important bug fixes in > newer releases. I can appreciate your frustation. At this point, maybe you should try bringing it to the attention of the QA team (qa@gentoo.org)? Resolving this situation would presumably be in line with their first stated goal, which is to "keep the tree in a state which benefits all of our users and developers alike". Another tactic would be to befriend a developer who has a vested interest in the continued fitness of the package (i.e. is known to be a user) and to ask for their assistance in moving things forwards. Some developers are rather more receptive to contributions from users than others, and you may chance upon one. Cheers, --Kerin