split sa-compile into a separate package

[Thomas]

Binary package hint: spamassassin

when i try to install spamassassin it want to install some devel stuff (compilier, header files, ...) because of the Recommends: gcc, libc6-dev, make

LANG=C aptitude install spamassassin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gcc{a} gcc-4.4{a} libc-dev-bin{a} libc6-dev{a} liberror-perl{a} libgomp1{a} libio-socket-inet6-perl{a} libmail-spf-perl{a} libnetaddr-ip-perl{a} libsocket6-perl{a} libsys-hostname-long-perl{a}
  linux-libc-dev{a} manpages-dev{a} re2c{a} spamassassin spamc{a}
0 packages upgraded, 16 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/10.2MB of archives. After unpacking 31.1MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]

Is this really needed???

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 13 15:28:13 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: spamassassin (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: spamassassin
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Its for sa-compile and I agree its a bit strong. Ill take a look at it.

Regards
chuck

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Currently we sync spamassassin from Debian. Please coordinate any changes so this will continue to be possible.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Debian maintainer did not object to the idea of splitting out sa-compile.
I sent a debdiff doing so. Assuming he doesn't object and pushes that
into Debian, I'll then post a merge request.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

fwiw this is the debdiff which I sent to the Debian maintainer.

[Jens (jens-launchpad-net)]

Hello, this is still a problem in 12.04. I want to avoid having a full compiler package on a mail server.

root@root:~# LANG=C apt-get install spamassassin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  binutils cpp cpp-4.6 gcc gcc-4.6 libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libdigest-hmac-perl libencode-locale-perl liberror-perl libfile-listing-perl
  libfont-afm-perl libgomp1 libhtml-form-perl libhtml-format-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libhttp-cookies-perl
  libhttp-daemon-perl libhttp-date-perl libhttp-message-perl libhttp-negotiate-perl libio-socket-inet6-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl
  liblwp-mediatypes-perl liblwp-protocol-https-perl libmail-spf-perl libmailtools-perl libmpc2 libmpfr4 libnet-dns-perl libnet-http-perl
  libnet-ip-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libnetaddr-ip-perl libquadmath0 libsocket6-perl libsys-hostname-long-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl
  libwww-robotrules-perl linux-libc-dev make manpages manpages-dev re2c spamc
Suggested packages:
  binutils-doc cpp-doc gcc-4.6-locales gcc-multilib autoconf automake1.9 libtool flex bison gdb gcc-doc gcc-4.6-multilib libmudflap0-4.6-dev
  gcc-4.6-doc libgcc1-dbg libgomp1-dbg libquadmath0-dbg libmudflap0-dbg binutils-gold glibc-doc libdata-dump-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl
  libauthen-ntlm-perl make-doc razor libnet-ident-perl pyzor libmail-dkim-perl

Any chance this might be fixed in Ubuntu 12.04?

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

As mentioned previously by Scott, this needs to be fixed in debian first. If it gets fixed there soon it can filter into 12.10, but that would be too big a change to SRU to 12.04.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Fixed (from Debian) in 3.3.2-8ubuntu1 for Trusty (14.04).