[Pkg-dspam-misc] Dspam backends

[Michel Lespinasse]

Hi,

I've been running dspam 3.6.8 for a while now, with the hash backend.
I am reasonably happy with that backend, however it does have a few bugs
and issues - among others the fact that database maintenance/cleanup
instructions are a bit vague and don't work out of the box.
cssclean and csscompress can be (manually) used to reduce the database
size, but they don't work if the css file is not on the same filesystem
than /tmp. None of these issues are major and the setup still works,
but one does get the impression that such bugs dont get fixed upstream
and the the vast majority of users seem to be using the database based
backends instead, so I thought I'd try that.

Question: what database backend is most popular, should I go with
mysql or sqlite3 ? I like the simplicity of sqlite3 and I dont need to
use daemon mode, so I'd probably go with that if it gets significant
usage from other folks too. If mysql is a better choice, it'd be nice
to include minimal debian install instructions in the README.Debian
(i.e. what packages does one need for a barebones setup).

Also two minor points of feedback:

* The current libdspam7-drv-db4 packages are rather silly
  (they only package files within /usr/share/doc :)

* I think the purge*.sql scripts should be in /etc/dspam
  instead of /usr/share/dspam/clean, given that they do contain
  some user configurable thresholds.

Thanks,

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
"Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian cat away from being the villain
in a James Bond movie." -- Dennis Miller