[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#672537: Unnecessary? dependency on clamav-daemon

Paul Wise pabs at debian.org
Tue May 22 03:33:53 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 14:09 -0500, Richard Laager wrote:

> /usr/share/clamav-unoffial-sigs/conf.d/01-debian.conf could do this
> instead of unconditionally setting reload_dbs=yes:
...
> Then you could drop the Depends: clamav-daemon (or demote it to
> Suggests) and it would Just Work for both clamd and non-clamd use cases.

The problem with that is that there is no way to know if script should
warn about clamd not running. In the normal case it is helpful but in
your case it would just be annoying. If I do the pid/socket checking
then I break the normal case in favour of the uncommon case.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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