[Spambayes] SpamBayes 1.1a6 not working since upgrade Debian Lenny -> Squeeze (with Python 2.6.6)

[Dale Schroeder]

On 06/16/2011 6:59 AM, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>      Amedee>  I *think* I fixed it.
>
>      Amedee>  I downloaded 1.1a6 from SF, untarred it, cd'ed into the
>      Amedee>  directory, and entered this command:
>
>      Amedee>  amedee at intrepid:~/download/spambayes-1.1a6$ sudo python setup.py install
>
>      Amedee>  Since then I'm no longer seeing errors in my procmail.log and my
>      Amedee>  ham/unsure/spam folders get populated again with mails that have
>      Amedee>  a X-Spambayes-Classification header.
>
> The only problem with this approach is that you may now have files installed
> into the space where Debian rules things.  It might get confused if you
> later go to install or upgrade SpamBayes packages from Debian.
>
> Skip
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That's the primary reason I chose python-stdeb to build a new Debian 
package for SpamBayes..  I can install, uninstall, reinstall as needed.
That's very convenient since there is no indication when Debian might 
upgrade the official package.

Dale