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

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Thu, June 16, 2011 13:59, 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.

Spambayes is one of the very few packages where I won't rely on Debian's
package manglement, so I don't see that as a problem. But thanks for
letting me know.

-- 
Amedee