[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#624380: clamav-base: Please package huge example files seperately or move them to clamav-docs

[Axel Beckert]

Package: clamav-base
Version: 0.97+dfsg-2
Severity: wishlist

26 MB out of clamav-base's installed size of 27 MB go into the examples
directory:

$ du -sh /usr/share/doc/clamav-base/examples
26M	/usr/share/doc/clamav-base/examples
$ ls -lhS /usr/share/doc/clamav-base/examples
total 26M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  26M Mar 11 01:15 main.cvd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 856K Mar 11 01:15 daily.cvd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  14K Mar 11 00:51 clamd.conf
$ file /usr/share/doc/clamav-base/examples/*
/usr/share/doc/clamav-base/examples/clamd.conf: ASCII English text
/usr/share/doc/clamav-base/examples/daily.cvd:  Clam AntiVirus database 07 Feb 2011 01-30 -0500, version 1263, gzipped
/usr/share/doc/clamav-base/examples/main.cvd:   Clam AntiVirus database 14 Nov 2010 09-58 -0500, version 53, gzipped

With the exception of the example configuration file, those files are
probably not needed by the vast majority of the clamav users, yet all of
them have to waste those 26 MB of disk space and download time when
installing e.g. freshclam which has a hard dependency.

Please package at least those huge but seldomly needed CVD example files
separately, maybe with clamav-base or clamav-docs suggesting them. Or
put them into the clamav-docs package instead.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (400, 'oldstable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages clamav-base depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.112+nmu2  add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.38      Debian configuration management sy
ii  logrotate                    3.7.8-6     Log rotation utility
ii  ucf                          3.0025+nmu2 Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages clamav-base recommends:
ii  clamav                       0.97+dfsg-2 anti-virus utility for Unix - comm

clamav-base suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  clamav-base/ScanMail: true
  clamav-base/AddGroups:
  clamav-base/Bytecode: true
  clamav-base/FollowDirectorySymlinks: false
  clamav-base/debconf: true
  clamav-base/BytecodeSecurity: TrustSigned
  clamav-base/BytecodeTimeout: 60000
  clamav-base/numinfo:
  clamav-base/TCPAddr: any
  clamav-base/ReadTimeout: 180
  clamav-base/TcpOrLocal: UNIX
  clamav-base/FollowFileSymlinks: false
  clamav-base/MaxThreads: 12
  clamav-base/MaxDirectoryRecursion: 15
  clamav-base/StreamMaxLength: 10
  clamav-base/User: clamav
  clamav-base/TCPSocket: 3310
  clamav-base/LocalSocketGroup: 20
  clamav-base/LogSyslog: false
  clamav-base/FixStaleSocket: true
  clamav-base/SelfCheck: 3600
  clamav-base/LocalSocketMode: 20
  clamav-base/ScanArchive: true
  clamav-base/MaxConnectionQueueLength: 15
  clamav-base/LogFile: /var/log/clamav/clamav.log
  clamav-base/LogTime: true
  clamav-base/LocalSocket: /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl