[Bug 1265685] Review Request: sylfilter -- a Bayesian spam filter for mailers

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265685



--- Comment #25 from Ranjan Maitra <itsme_410@xxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Dan Horák from comment #24)
> (In reply to Ranjan Maitra from comment #23)
> > (In reply to Dan Horák from comment #22)
> > > > > 2. Requires: sylpheed
> > > > > 
> > > > > This is often superfluous. Generally, RPM will pick up it automatically.
> > > > 
> > > > Why so? If sylpheed is not installed, then sylfilter has to be built
> > > > differently.
> > > 
> > > no, rpmbuild adds automatically dependencies on shared libraries used in the
> > > resulting rpm. So there will be always a dependency on libsylph no matter in
> > > which package or rpm libsylph will live.
> > > 
> > > If sylfilter is useful without the sylpheed GUI client, we can move the
> > > libsylph library into own subpackage.
> > 
> > Sylfilter is useful without the sylpheed GUI client, but does this not mean
> > that sylpheed will have to be rebuilt and be disruptive to an existing
> > mature package (the mailer?).
> 
> There is nothing disruptive on introducing a new subpackage in an exiting
> package. The library file is already there, it will just move to new rpm.

OK, but I guess then I am stuck till this happens. I will containing using my
local rpm which has been serving me well for the past 5 years.

> 
> > Btw, someone is trying to package libsylph separately, FWIW:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288927
> 
> I don't understand why someone wants to introduce 8 years old code when an
> up-to-date version is already available in the distro ...

I agree and have not quite understood the rationale.

>  
> > 
> > New files removing requirement of sylpheed posted at:
> > 
> > 
> > SPEC: http://maitra.public.iastate.edu/Fedora/sylfilter.spec
> > SRPM: http://maitra.public.iastate.edu/Fedora/sylfilter-0.8-6.fc23.src.rpm

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