Bug#608336: exim4-base: Please change Suggests on libmail-spf-query-perl

[Andreas Metzler]

severity 608336 important
retitle 608336 SPF ACL example uses removed package libmail-spf-query-perl
tags 608336 patch
thanks

On 2010-12-30 gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:44:06 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> > > Please adjust your Suggest to either libmail-spf-perl or
> > > spf-tools-perl.
>> A perfect followup bug to this change in 4.71-4: :-O
>
>>   * Invoke spfquery as spfquery.mail-spf-query-perl. There are three different
>>     implementations of spfquery in Debian, with incompatible commandline
>>     switches and different exit codes. Closes: #573956

> Heh :)

> > Tomorrow.
> > Is either of libmail-spf-perl/spf-tools-perl prefered or better?

> AFAIK libmail-spf-perl contains the perl modules and spf-tools-perl
> the scripts (i.e. /usr/bin/spfquery.mail-spf-perl and
> /usr/sbin/spfd.mail-spf-perl; and it depends on libmail-spf-perl).

> If I read the changelog entry above correctly, exim calls the script
> and therefore would need to Suggest spf-tools-perl.
[...]

spf-tools-perl should work. I have fixed this in SVN but will not be
able to push this to squeeze. This bug is just not release-critical.

I am attaching the patch commited to SVN for reference.
cu andreas
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