Bug#926952: sa-exim: Unbuildable/uninstallable in sid

[Andreas Metzler]

Package: sa-exim
Version: 4.2.1-16
Severity: serious
Control: block -1 by 879687

Hello,

with exim4/4.92-5 I have dropped support for sa-exim:

The dlopen localscan patch in exim4 has been nonfunctional in unstable
for quite some time (4.92~RC2-1/experimental/18 Dec, 4.92~RC3-1
unstable/26 Dec and buster/03 Jan). The issue only popped up end of
March on the upstream user support ML.

At this time I opened a tracking bug in exim #925982 and looked at
sa-exim. It is dead upstream since 2006 and buggy:
* https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20180726.113354.6d03efde.en.html
* #879687

(This might be same issue, I just do not know. Chunking is
enabled by (upstream) default.)

At this point we (exim4) decided that this was a good time to finally
drop the dlopen localscan patch. We did that and adopted exim
accordingly:

- improve the example/docs for content-scanning in exim without sa-exim
- drop the abovementioned patch and the virtual Provides for
  exim4-localscanapi-2.0 and also drop the exim-dev package (only
  needed for sa-exim). Exim now also Conflicts with sa-exim.

However, what I did *not* do was consult you before I did this. I am
sorry for that. It is still possible to reinstate exim-dev and try to
fix exim to make sa-exim work again. But imho only if sa-exim is fixed
in the first place and is tested and found to be working with current
exim.

What are your thoughts on this?

TIA, cu Andreas
-- 
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so grateful to you.'
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