[Spambayes] Bug solution for Spambayes

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    Dale> Although the build happens and the correct dependencies are
    Dale> applied, this is what I got when I tried to run it.
    
    Dale> Traceback (most recent call last):
    Dale> File "/usr/bin/sb_server.py", line 96, in<module>
    Dale> from spambayes import Dibbler
    Dale> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/spambayes/Dibbler.py", line 186, in<module>
    Dale> from spambayes import asyncore, asynchat
    Dale> ImportError: cannot import name asyncore
    
    Dale>     Hmmm...  Looks like asyncore (and probably asynchat) probably
    Dale>     didn't make it into the distribution.  I maybe have a messed
    Dale>     up manifest.  I'll take a look.

My apologies for not getting to this sooner.
    
    Dale> Well, today Debian provided an update to python that prevents the
    Dale> use of all Spambayes versions.  I had been running 1.1a6 with
    Dale> python 2.5.  Attempting that combination now yields:

    ...

    Dale> Version 1.1b1 has the problems with asyncore and asynchat outlined
    Dale> at the top and also will not start.

    Dale> I don't really know how to proceed at this point.

As it turns out distutils has a bug which causes it to not rebuild the
MANIFEST file in many situations, so the new asyncore and asynchat modules
were not incorporated into the original 1.1b1 release.  I fixed that problem
today and created a new 1.1b1 source release.  It's available in the usual
place:

    http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=spambayes

Before uploading it I verified that the new files were included:

    % tar tfz dist/spambayes-1.1b1.tar.gz | egrep async
    spambayes-1.1b1/Outlook2000/dialogs/async_processor.py
    spambayes-1.1b1/spambayes/asynchat.py
    spambayes-1.1b1/spambayes/asyncore.py

Please have the Debian folks regenerate their SpamBayes package.

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