MIME-tools most recent stable version is 5.413 (previous stable version was 5.411a). Beware The maintainer has changed : it is now DFS http://ftp.u-strasbg.fr/CPAN/authors/id/D/DS/DSKOLL/ 5.413 should be used over 6.20002 according to DFS (which was supposed to be the next version, and was considered as a devel version for some time). Version 5.413 requires recent MIME-Base64 (at least 3.03) versions hence a prior bug report submitted (and now closed) to update the ebuild MIME-Base64 2 days ago. Trivial MIME-tools-5.413.ebuild content : inherit perl-module DESCRIPTION="A Perl module for parsing and creating MIME entities" SRC_URI=" mirror://cpan/authors/id/D/DS/DSKOLL//${P}.tar.gz" HOMEPAGE="mirror://cpan/modules/by-module/MIME/DSKOLL/${P}.readme" SLOT="0" LICENSE="Artistic" KEYWORDS="~x86 ~ppc ~sparc ~mips ~alpha ~arm ~hppa ~amd64 ~ia64 ~s390 ~ppc64" IUSE="" DEPEND="${DEPEND} >=dev-perl/IO-stringy-2.108 >=dev-perl/MIME-Base64-3.05 dev-perl/libnet dev-perl/URI dev-perl/Digest-MD5 dev-perl/libwww-perl dev-perl/HTML-Tagset dev-perl/HTML-Parser dev-perl/MailTools" A lot of email filtering software (MailScanner, MIMEDefang, amavisd-new) depend on MIME-tools hence the need to update the ebuild. I will propose a mimedefang ebuild next week.
done. also removed the 6 ebuild since it would only add to the chaos.
Don't remove ebuilds without verifying that something doesn't depend on it!!!
MIME::Parser (MIME-Tools-x.xxxx) ( the patched MIME-tools by David F. Skoll is recommended over 5.411, as it better handles broken/bad MIME syntax: http://www.mimedefang.org/ -> Download section. The new 6.2xx from http://search.cpan.org/dist/MIME-tools/ also includes these patches, and more.
MIME-tools 5.413 is now written by David F. Skoll (DFS) : it includes the features that were in MIME-tools 6.2xx and includdes some new ones see http://search.cpan.org/src/DSKOLL/MIME-tools-5.413/ChangeLog Clearly as I mentioned MIME-tools 5.413 should be used instead
Cardoe, The module was mislabeled upstream. Unless removed, newer versions (still in the 5.X series) would never be utilized by any ebuild. The 2 ebuilds that specifically referenced 6 have been corrected (though why amavisd-new needed the 6 series isn't clear)
It's clear since I just copied and pasted a comment out of amavisd's install file. There's more then one ebuild that needed MIME-tools 6.x since I have a couple of bugs assigned to me about it and I see other bugs in Portage about it.
I could find only 2 ebuilds that reference MIME-tools-6 (via me old grep anyway) - a SOAP ebuild that I mistakingly marked and the amavisd-new. What else was there?
