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DSPAM 3.9.0 released!
Jan 12th
The DSPAM team have just announced their first official release, one year after the project was taken over by the Community.
You can download the sources from the SourceForge project.
Unofficial Debian packages are being built right now, but will only be uploaded to my repository after a bit more testing, during the week-end I guess.
They are meant to be uploaded to the official Debian archive once they are considered as ready by the pkg-dspam team.
Hopefully, they will be part of Squeeze.
Switched to GIT
Nov 22nd
After having converted my packages to the new 3.0 (quilt) source format, I have decided to move everything to GIT.
rkhunter was moved to Alioth’s collab-maint project, and I have set up a personal GIT repository for the other packages.
This page on the wiki has helped a lot.
I now need to learn how to use this tool, but my first tests are very encouraging.
I haven’t had to change my packaging workflow, switching from svn-buildpackage to git-buildpackage.
I am even able to build i386 packages on my amd64 machine as before without the need to change anything in my ~/.pbuilderrc.
Converted my packages to 3.0 (quilt) source format
Nov 22nd
I have now finished converted most of the packages I maintain (part of the official archive or not) to the new 3.0 (quilt) source format.
I first had to switch from dpatch or cdbs’ simple-patchsys to quilt, which was easy thanks to Romain Francoise’s old blog post.
Also note this quick adaptation for cdbs:
for i in $(ls debian/patches/*.patch); do \ I=$(basename $i | sed 's/.patch$//'); \ quilt import -P $I.diff $i; \ done
The rest was much easier than what I thought, thanks to the related page on the wiki.
I have already tried uploading a package to my personal repository, and reprepro just worked as expected.
(Almost) inactive
Jul 5th
Things have been quiet recently which explains I haven’t blogged for a long time.
I have been mostly working on keeping my unofficial dspam development packages up-to-date to allow good testing amoungst Debian users.
For those who want to upgrade from the 3.6.8 Debian package, please make sure you read and follow the instructions of the UPGRADING file: the upgrade steps are not done automatically! I let it to the official maintainers. However, I am sad to see no activity in the pkg-dspam svn repository since last September!
DSPAM 3.9.0 is now in the final testing step, 2 alpha releases have already been published, I hope we can have updated Debian packages shortly when the final version is released.
My plans for the summer are to update all my articles, most of them being unfortunately outdated, though still usable.
Counting Debian source packages
Jan 17th
Following to Kushal’s post about counting total number of Debian packages, he concluded that sid currently has more than 30,000 binary packages (free, contrib & non-free).
IMHO it is more relevant to count source packages. I couldn’t find any existing way of doing it, I have hence written a short bash script.
DSPAM-Community – first RC: call for testing
Jan 6th
I was happy to receive Dov Zamir’s email announcing the creation of a fork of the DSPAM anti-spam filter, called dspam-community.
I have been using DSPAM for a while now, and am very happy with it, but was quite anxious that the project is left out by Sensory Networks (the company took over DSPAM in May 2007).
I give all my confidence in the fork as the original author, Jonathan Zdziarski, is part of the new development team!
I have prepared EXPERIMENTAL packages of the first RC of DSPAM-Community.
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