Bug#911614: Module Mail::SPF::BlackMagic should be included

[gregor herrmann]

Control: tag -1 + upstream

On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 17:01:18 +0200, wavexx wrote:

> I was trying to use spfquery from spf-tools-perl to debug some spf
> rules. Most of the options which are useful for debugging are relegated
> behind the --enable-black-magic option which attempts to load
> Mail::SPF::BlackMagic, which in turn is not included in
> libmail-spf-perl.
> 
> Could you consider including also the 'black magic' functionality?
> (that I would actually consider "normal debugging stuff" in my book).

While spfquery refers to Mail::SPF::BlackMagic, this module is not in
the https://metacpan.org/release/Mail-SPF distribution; and a search
for it on the CPAN doesn't return any results either (except for
refrences/links which go nowhere) :/

The quote from the README

  You can easily sub-class Mail::SPF::Server and the
  Mail::SPF::Result class collection in order to extend or modify
  their behavior. The hypothetical Mail::SPF::BlackMagic package was
  once supposed to make use of this.

also doesn't increase the hopes.


So unless someone finds Mail::SPF::BlackMagic somewhere, we won't be
able to package/ship it.
Otherwise it might make sense to patch out the references to
::BlackMagic from the existing code …

Cheers,
gregor

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