postgrey broken in gutsy

[Cyber Dog]

>Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:39:59 -0400
>From: Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com>
>Subject: Re: postgrey broken in gutsy
>To: ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com
>Message-ID: <200710251539.59593.ubuntu at kitterman.com>
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>On Thursday 25 October 2007 15:29, Cyber Dog wrote:
>> I'm mailing this list because it's given as the Maintainer for the
>> postgrey package in gutsy.  There is a major bug in postgrey 1.27-4
>> that makes the postgrey daemon die regularly.  A report was filed on
>> launch pad *two months ago*, but it has not been addressed by anyone
>> who seems to be a developer:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgrey/+bug/135038
>>
>> As also mentioned in the bug, Debian acknowledged this as a Grave
>> issue and already fixed it in their distro.  What does it take to get
>> this problem proper attention?
>>
>Having taken a quick look at the Debian bug, it appears filing a bug against
>the correct package would be helpful.  I've added a db4.4 task to the bug.
>
>Scott K


First, thank you Scott for taking the time to reply and have a look at
the issue.  Your responsiveness is always much appreciated.

Now, unfortunately, reclassifying the bug seems to have equally failed
at getting it any attention.  I've gotten several "me too" updates
over the past couple weeks, but no updates from developers.  It
appears most users are resorting to mixing Debian packages into their
systems to resolve this issue.  I find it hard to believe that
importing an existing Debian patch could be so complicated for the
maintainers to do, but then again I'm not involved in the process
either.  The bottom line is, this bug seems to be fairly popular, and
rather severe, but apparently we still haven't gotten the attention of
the right people.  Ideas?

-
Matt