[Pkg-clamav-devel] [Fwd: Recent clamav-milter upgrade from volatile broken]

[Christian Schulte]

Michael Tautschnig schrieb:

...
> Ok, maybe the Debian package could have been more verbose about this. But
> essentially this was upstream's decision and we're not going to revert this
> because the old milter was broken in several ways. 

If you want such things, take
> amavis and use clamav as the backend. If you prefer to stick with clamav-milter,
> see 
> 
> http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20090326.132413.b9e348ec.hu.html
> 
> for some suggestions.
> 
> Best,
> Michael
> 

So I will have to change a really well working email system without any
reason. Changing configurations wouldn't have been a problem. Removing
functionality without providing alternatives is. None of the alternative
solutions recommended by the clamav folks are in any way that simple and
easy to setup than the clamav-milter was.

Whatsoever, this is nothing debian specific so thanks a lot for helping
me. Waiting 20 months for the debian distribution to stabilize and the
first upgrade breaks the system. Should have been a dist-upgrade then.
There really is no need for debian if things are going that road now. It
were the great debian packages decoupling the distribution from any
upstream insanity I chose it for.

Btw, the clamav upgrade really brought a /etc/default/clamav-milter file
with it. This new file contains the line

RESTART_AFTER_CLAMD=yes

and as soon as this is set to yes, clamav-milter cannot be started
anymore stating a warning that clamd may be needed and that it will be
started by clamd. clamav-milter will not be started by clamd for me.

-- 
Christian