Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 113828
RPM incorrectly Obsoletes official project RPMs
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:00 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/106.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/100.1 Description of problem: I'm the maintainer of the official SpamAssassin RPMs. At the moment, the latest version is spamassassin-2.62-1 and perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.62-1. Unfortunately, on my ES3 server, which has the above RPMs installed, "up2date -l" reports that the RedHat spamassassin RPM (spamassassin-2.55-3.1) needs to be installed and it obsoletes perl-Mail-SpamAssassin. After looking at the RedHat spec file, and discussing the issue on rpm-list@redhat.com, the only suggestion was that I file this bug for the RPM. From the discussion, it looks like the Obsoletes line ought to limit itself to certain versions of perl-Mail-SpamAssassin. Right now, it looks like: Obsoletes: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin but should be something like: Obsoletes: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin < %{version} so that people who install the newer "official" RPMs won't have problems with the RH older version obsoleting incorrectly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install the official project spamassassin and perl-Mail-SpamAssassin RPMs 2. run "up2date -l" Additional info:
Another problem with the RedHat release of spamassassin... Version 2.55 has a bug wich gives a high score to all messages sent using Outlook 2003. The failed tests are "Forged mail pretending to be from MS Outlook" (3.5) and " Message looks like Outlook, but isn't" (0.6). This is fixed in newer versions.