[Pkg-clamav-devel] BUG: Upgrading clamav issue

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday, June 25, 2016 09:53:27 AM Zhang Huangbin wrote:
> Dear clamav maintainers,
> 
> i'm reporting an issue caused by upgrading ClamAV on Debian 8.
> 
> We had clamav running, then upgrade to the latest version (from official
> debian apt repo, of course), then 'clamav-daemon' service cannot be
> started, the error message from systemctl is:
> 
> clamd[2041]: ERROR: Parse error at line 11: Unknown option
> AllowSupplementaryGroups clamd[2041]: ERROR: Can't open/parse the config
> file /etc/clamav/clamd.conf
> 
> Since parameter 'AllowSupplementaryGroups' was not supported by the latest
> ClamAV, the package post-install or post-upgrade script should remove it
> from config file directly.
> 
> And the systemd service has to be re-enabled, or it does not start
> automatically.
> 
> Thanks for your attention and helping. :)

We are aware of this and are waiting for approval from the stable release 
managers to upload a fix for this.  

Scott K