FWICS libmilter is built practically separately from core sendmail, and since we've got it packaged separately, I don't see why sendmail should build its own copy and block it, rather than depending on it. This would also avoid having to hardcode its version in the ebuild.
*** Bug 681226 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c97bd0e2aa41d659ac1a5f39c241c2093c7f4241 commit c97bd0e2aa41d659ac1a5f39c241c2093c7f4241 Author: Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-08-17 02:52:02 +0000 Commit: Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-08-17 03:06:40 +0000 mail-mta/sendmail: bump to 8.16.1 * Bump due to security issue * Add -D_FFR_TLS_EC to compile options which supports ECDHE and PFS * Stop building libmilter separately and introduce dep on mail-filter/libmilter * By depending on mail-filter/libmilter sendmail no longer installs static-libs. * Add -DMAXDAEMONS=64 to fix IPV6 environments * Fix various QA issues with lack of dies. More to be fixed. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/730890 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/681232 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/542370 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/681224 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/724548 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/606490 Acked-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org> mail-mta/sendmail/Manifest | 1 + .../files/sendmail-8.14.6-build-system.patch | 73 +------- mail-mta/sendmail/sendmail-8.16.1.ebuild | 208 +++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 219 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)