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Posted to dev@spamassassin.apache.org by Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org> on 2007/08/23 11:34:08 UTC

Re: anyone know who's doing FreeBSD patches?

Mark Martinec writes:
> Justin Mason wrote:
> > It appears there are patches to the FreeBSD package of SpamAssassin that
> > I'm not familiar with:
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin/files
> >/patch-sa-learn.raw
> >
> > In particular there's a "-q" (quiet) switch added to sa-learn.
> >
> > IMO, it's a spectacularly bad idea to add new options that aren't
> > available on other platforms -- practically guaranteed to create
> > portability bugs.  Anyone know why they haven't submitted the patch
> > upstream?  Or have they, and I just can't find it?
> 
> Michael Scheidell <sc...@secnap.net>,
> he's also on the SA 'users' list.

actually, the patch seems to come from someone with the username "obrien".
Maybe Michael's the guy who submits patches upstream, though... cc'd...

--j.