MainInclusionReportSpamassassin
Main Inclusion Report for spamassassin
Requirements
Availability: spamassassin; available for all supported architectures or some subset ? All
Rationale:
- Spec'ed for Intrepid:
Security:
CVE entries: Doesn't have any during 2008 so far, the CVEs are for past versions.
Secunia history: All relate to earlier versions as well.
- Any binaries running as root or suid/sgid ? No Any daemons ? Yes, spamd a deamonized version of spamassassin with the aim of improving performance.
- Network activity: does it open any port ? It has the option to listen on a port, 783 by default. Does it handle incoming network data ? It has the option, but by default only allows local connections.
- Does it directly (not through a library) process binary (video, audio, etc) or structured (PDF, etc) data ? Yes
- Any source code review performed ? (The approver will do a quick and shallow check.) No
Quality assurance:
- In what situations does the package not work out of the box without configuration ? Default config does not enable spamd. You have to modify /etc/defaults/spamassassin.
- Does the package ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium' ? No
Debian bugs: (mention any that are particularly relevant, and any showstoppers) None
Maintenance in Debian vigorous.
Upstream is calm, seem to release a couple of times a year.
Upstream bug tracker: (mention any particularly relevant or critical) None
- Hardware: Does this package deal with hardware and if so how exotic is it ? No
- Is there a test suite in the upstream source or packaging ? Yes Is it enabled to run in the build ? No
Standards compliance:
FHS Yes, Debian Policy compliance ? Yes
Debian library packaging guide standards compliance ? Yes
- Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) ? debhelper Patch system ? dpatch Any packaging oddities ? No
Dependencies:
- libssl-dev
- libhtml-parser-perl
- libdigest-sha1-perl
- libnet-dns-perl
- Are these all in main ? Yes or MIR filed.
Background information:
- The general purpose and context of the package should be clear from the package's debian/control file. If it isn't then please explain.
- What do upstream call this software ? spamassassin Has it had different names in the past ? No
Reviewers
MIR bug: 261968
Author Asommer; reviewers will add comments etc. too
MainInclusionReportSpamassassin (last edited 2008-08-27 19:14:52 by static-72-81-252-22)