--- "Carlos E. R."
The Monday 2004-03-29 at 07:18 -0800, Mark Tinka wrote:
just an OT question -- is there any reason the SpamAssasin on SuSE (8.2) is so far behind what is available from the developer, which is version 2.63?
I installed 2.63 with my suse 8.2, it is not difficult. I understand the policy is not to do version updates of packages, only security patches, in order not to break dependencies.
this is understandable...
However, it could be argued whether following that policy with SpamAssassin compromises security - my opinion is that it does, therefore, I upgraded it myself.
i would have thought just as much, perhaps... there r some packages whose efficacy depends on how 'late' they r.. anti-virus servers, anti-spam servers, whois web interfaces with the latest TLD's out there, e.t.c. my thinking is that wouldn't a distro have a policy for such packages..?.. u could as well simply use the .spec file to build an patched rpm of your source package, but maybe SuSE could have another idea.. :)..
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Regards, Mark.
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