svn commit: r484357 - head/mail/spamassassin

[Koichiro Iwao]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 10:33:02AM +0100, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 11/7/18 10:22 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 10:17:50AM +0100, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> > > On 11/7/18 10:10 AM, Koichiro Iwao wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 09:31:05AM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > > > > Is there still a need for the japanese spamassassin? if yes, can't the specific
> > > > > patch be incorporated in the regular one?
> > > > > 
> > > > > That would simplify the life of many people to have only one spamassassin
> > > > > 
> > > > > Bapt
> > > > 
> > > > AFAIK yes. Additional patch improves spam detection accuracy on emails written
> > > > in Japanese but using mail/spamassassin's accuracy is not too bad.
> > > > 
> > > > Regarding the current japanese/spamassassin port, I think it is deprecated. It
> > > > is created for the old version of spamassassin and not updated for years.
> > > > 
> > > > I can found another Japanese tokenizer patch for the latest
> > > > spamassassin. The port should be renewed based on this:
> > > > 
> > > > https://github.com/heartbeatsjp/spamassassin_ja
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi!
> > > japanese/spamassassin is up for grabs.  If you are interested in maintaining
> > > it and in updating it with that patch, I can help a little. I don't have
> > > time to maintain it myself.
> > > Regards
> > 
> > Can't those patches be available in the files directory on the
> > mail/spamassassins so we have one single port to maintain?
> > 
> 
> I don't know why japanese/spamassassin was made into a separate port to
> begin with, it's been that way since I took over maintainership over
> mail/spamassassin.
> 
> Looking at SVN history it seems like japanese/spamassassin was created
> because the patch was for an older version of spamassassin originally, so
> two different versions were needed.

Correct, I dimly remember that.

+1 to single port. I concern about not all people need that patch. Can
FLAVORS be used to create packages with/without Japanese patches?
I know it can be used to handle multiple versions of PHP, Python, etc.

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