[users] MailScanner request

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 May 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > > Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> > > > > > The MailScanner software
> > > > > > (http://www.mailscanner.info/downloads.html) is
> > > > > > not yet on rpmforge.
> > > > >
> > > > > The author of that app has specifically asked for packagers to not
> > > > > include it in any repository.
> > > >
> > > > Was that recently? I brought the issue up on the MailScanner mailinglist
> > > > this week and did not get any response anywehere near your statement.
> > >
> > >
> > > Julian is often active in the Mailscanner channel on irc.freenode.net -
> > > you might want to ask him there directly perhaps. I've chased this with
> > > him a lot a few years back, and then finally gave up early last year ( I
> > > know its been a while, but his stance seemed unchanging ).
> > >
> > > Essentially, his interest is in tracking usage and download destinations
> > > etc, more than anything else.
> > 
> > Then why not just help him out and help him set up a repository. I will
> > throw up a bone and see if Julian bites.
> 
> Have been down that route a few times as well - but that creates further
> interesting issues - since he bundles a fair few perl sources into the
> tarball, and have you seen the scripts in the mailscanner rpm :)

I can safely say that some packages I provide are not meant for packaging 
in a proper way. The most infamous one is webmin. If I would have to 
support webmin in a way that CentOS Extras currently does, I would not be 
able to do it.

webmin currently is unmaintained (which is pretty irresponsible but 
reality).

Kind regards,
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