[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#525358: Better testcase, --exclude-dir only works with a REGEX.

[The Count]

Thanks for the advice.  Just changing the option name, but using the old pattern syntax, didn't work in all cases, though.

I created a better testcase:
# mkdir -p /tmp/clamtest/test1 /tmp/clamtest/kde-htest
# mkdir -p /clamtest/test1
# touch /tmp/clamtest/test1/clamtest.test1.sample.file
# cp /tmp/kde-htest/konqueror-crash-Gpj9Ca.log /tmp/clamtest/kde-htest/
# touch /clamtest/test1/clamtest.test1.sample.file
# touch /clamtest/test1/junk
# clamscan -r --exclude-dir=//clamtest/ /tmp /clamtest
/tmp/clamtest/tmp.clamtest.sample.file: Empty file
/tmp/clamtest/kde-htest/konqueror-crash-Gpj9Ca.log: OK
/tmp/clamtest/tmp/temp.clamtest.tmp.sample.file: OK
/tmp/.X0-lock: OK
/clamtest/test1/clamtest.test1.sample.file: Empty file
/clamtest/test1/junk: Empty file

So just changing from --exclude to --exclude-dir, using the original syntax for PATT of // to indicate a root directory doesn't work.

Later Internet search on "--exclude-dir" turned up http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/56093-clam-av.html
which shows the Fedora version of   clamscan --help   saying that the syntax is "--exclude-dir=REGEX"

I tested this and found that it works:
# clamscan -r --exclude-dir=^/clamtest/ /tmp /clamtest
/tmp/clamtest/tmp.clamtest.sample.file: Empty file
/tmp/clamtest/kde-htest/konqueror-crash-Gpj9Ca.log: OK
/tmp/clamtest/tmp/temp.clamtest.tmp.sample.file: OK
/tmp/.X0-lock: OK
/clamtest: Excluded

So sometime between clamav 0.92.1 and 0.94.dfsg.2-1lenny2, the syntax for --exclude-dir=PATT (and related options) changed to require PATT to be a regular expression.

Is there any chance of getting the man page and  --help  output changed to say REGEX instead of PATT?