On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:42:15PM +0200, Michael Haardt wrote:
> > > >And, as usual, my enhancement to allow multiple spamd servers and
> > > >more flexible header parsing:
> > > If the config stays backward-compatible, I can put it in ... :)
> Being able to specify the server per ACL is a feature, and had you chosen
> an extensible format like attribute-value-pairs for parameter passing,
> compatibility would not be a problem. I didn't chose that either, but
> I am not religious on compatibility of such a small detail if changing
> buys me something. ;)
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If you are abolutely sure[1] you cannot provide a backwards compatible
"spam" condition with your extensions pretty please simply make it
available under a different name (spam2) instead of breaking every
existing installation.
Wearing my Debian maintainer head, I have to add that it would make my
life absolutely miserable, the "easiest" option for me would be to
remove your modifiation for the Debian package.
cu andreas
[1] Still missing a reply on
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