WARNING: Problem with '-u' option and separate wordlists

[David Relson]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 14:01:09 +0200
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:

> David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> writes:
> 
> > As those of you reading the list yesterday heard, a problem was
> > reported with bogofilter-0.15.4 when the '-u' (auto-update) flag is
> > used.  The problem happens only when old-style separate wordlists
> > are used, not when the new combined wordlist is used.  The defect in
> > bogofilter is that file src/register.c doesn't provide the
> > information that src/datastore.c needs so it can update the proper
> > database.  With the new (combined) wordlist, there is only one
> > wordlist to update and the problem doesn't occur.
> 
> Is there any reason besides "compatibility" that lets us keep
> "separate" word lists? If not, we'll just add huge banners to "make
> install" and force the migration, dropping "separate word list"
> support.

Basically correct.  It's there primarily for compatibility.  When the
combined wordlist was introduced, there were a number of reasons people
had for wanting to keep their separate wordlists.  I don't remember the
details.