[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bugfix for #507624 prepared

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:39:59PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Michael Tautschnig:
> 
> >> * Michael Tautschnig:
> >> 
> >> > The attached patch provides a fix for etch-security. It does,
> >> > however, not include the previously sent patch for #505134. We could
> >> > upload a package containing both bugfixes at any time. If you prefer
> >> > to only include one of those, this is also prepared easily.
> >> 
> >> Does the package in etch still work with current signature databases?
> >> (I've recently seen a report to the contrary.)
> >> 
> >
> > I don't think that there are any incompatibilities introduced in post-etch
> > versions, even though the version in etch may be unable to make use of all of
> > the features in current signature databases. 
> 
> I've just checked, and freshclam runs just fine (for some values of
> "fine", of course, given that some signatures are ignored).  Looks
> like the report was wrong.  Sorry for the noise.

I've mentioned in my previous mail from 12th Nov:

| No, it's not a regression, but apparently the standard behaviour of clamav
| with current signature databases. There's also a bug about it: #454587.
| (Note that according to my experience it's much worse than described in the
| bug nowadays).

And it's totally reproducible at our production system at work. (Until we upgraded
to a more current version)

Cheers,
        Moritz