Comment 3 for bug 551655

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:57:21PM -0000, Paweł Tęcza wrote:

> I think that closing bug I reported it's not your good decision. Ubuntu
> still supports previous releases and IMHO that bug should be fixed there too,
> because it's very important for all mail servers using old Spamassassin.
>
> Do you still remember Y2010 problem in Spamassassin? Ubuntu fixed
> FH_DATE_PAST_20XX test for Spamassassin in Karmic and Jaunty, because
> it could create a lot of false positives. The open-whois.org rules are
> false positives too. IMHO there are similar issues.
>

Yes - this is what the Stable Release Updates [1] process is made for.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

> > This is a important bug in Ubuntu. If you need a fix for the bug in
> > previous versions of Ubuntu, please do steps 1 and 2 of the SRU
> > Procedure [1] to bring the need to a developer's attention.
>
> I don't need a fix for that bug now. I've just removed the
> open-whois.org rules on my servers where Spamassassin is running. But I
> wanted to help also another Ubuntu admins. I can imagine that some of
> them don't know about that problem at all.
>

The best way to help others is to get a Stable Release Update prepared and
published. See [1] for how to conduct this.

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Mathias Gug
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