I meant: See also the ongoing discussion in bug 7826.

This is a lint warning.  A fix was committed a few days ago but I had to work
out a merge complaint on the rule system publishing this morning.  I
believe a fix is now published.

Can you try now and lmk, please?  I think the current ruleset is 1879881
has it fixed and is published.

However SA 3.4.3+ will still install updates with just a warning.  Can
you upgrade your SA or are you stuck at 3.4.2?

If you still show the issue, what is the output of this command?
 sa-update -D --checkonly 2>&1 | grep -i dns

This issue only happens with 3.4.2 and before where a lint warning causes a failure.

Recommend updating but I'm working on a fix with rules.

OK, this should be fixed with the next rules publication with this commit included.  

svn commit -m 'Much cleaner to keep one rule name but use a if condition to set which eval is called.  This fixes bug 7840'
Sending        rules/50_scores.cf
Sending        rules/60_whitelist.cf
Transmitting file data ..
Committed revision 1879885.

I believe ruleset 1879934 has been published and should fix the issue.  Can
anyone confirm, please?

SA 3.4.2 is the latest version available on debian stable (buster). 

Therefore this version is probably in use by many people.

I just tried sa-update, but it still fails:

$ date
Fr 17. Jul 11:27:35 CEST 2020
$ sa-update -v
Update available for channel updates.spamassassin.org: 1879434 -> 1879882
http: (curl) GET http://sa-update.razx.cloud/1879882.tar.gz, success
http: (curl) GET http://sa-update.razx.cloud/1879882.tar.gz.sha512, success
http: (curl) GET http://sa-update.razx.cloud/1879882.tar.gz.sha256, success
http: (curl) GET http://sa-update.razx.cloud/1879882.tar.gz.asc, success
config: warning: description exists for non-existent rule USER_IN_WELCOMELIST_TO

channel: lint check of update failed, channel failed
Update failed, exiting with code 4

Thanks Kevin, for responding so fast. It seems that your changes aren't yet published on all mirrors:

$ /usr/bin/sa-update -D --checkonly 2>&1 | grep -i dns
Jul 17 11:28:29.942 [28189] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: Net::DNS, version 1.1
Jul 17 11:28:29.943 [28189] dbg: diag: [...] module installed: Net::DNS::Nameserver, version 1558
Jul 17 11:28:29.966 [28189] dbg: dns: 2.4.3.updates.spamassassin.org => 1879882, parsed as 1879882

For the moment, I am still stuck with 3.4.2. I will be upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 with 3.4.4 as time allows, but that will still be a while.

Ty, working to figure out why the fix isn't being published in the rules

(In reply to Kevin A. McGrail from comment #8)
> Ty, working to figure out why the fix isn't being published in the rules

It's an update timing issue. The latest rev to be published is r1879882 but the fix was in r1879885:

    # svn log rules/60_whitelist.cf |head -5
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    r1879885 | kmcgrail | 2020-07-15 08:02:46 -0400 (Wed, 15 Jul 2020) | 1 line
    
    Much cleaner to keep one rule name but use a if condition to set which eval is called.  This fixes bug 7840
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------

And as noted in bug 7838: this is a transient noise problem, because there are no functional changes to actual rules since this problem arose.

Thanks Bill for that insight.  

I show the ruleset 1879934 was published and has the fix.  Please confirm if you can update now.

Yes. I can confirm the absence of a warning as well as a successuful sa-update run.

Thank you.