[Pkg-clamav-devel] LogRotate, create user and the option in the config

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2014-03-26 23:07:17 [+0100], Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> I think the whole debconf thingy got a little out of hand. Almost every
> option in the config file can be changed. As you say, it adds complexity
> atm. Maybe too much since we are now busy to get it bug free.
> 
> I do get a little anxious if I want to change one option and have to
> click my self carefully through the options so I don't get press enter
> too often… That is maybe my own problem here. I don't use this on my
> servers, just now for testing.
> Anyway. What do we gain here exactly? What is the advantage of using debconf
> for every config item over giving a sane default config with a comment over
> each option?
> I understand that for things like LogRotate it is pleasant that the logrotate.d
> file is automaticly created with the proper user for instance. However
> this isn't working perfectly atm and I didn't find other example. The
> other options seem to written to the config file as-is.
> 
> Looking at apache, nginx, exim for instance they all ship a default
> config which works and leave it up to the user to deal with it. Exim has
> a few questions, true, but they mostly compare to what freshclam asks
> and are way less compared to `base'. unbound gives a config file with a
> lot of comments next to each option. That is what _I_ like.
> 
> Said that I wouldn't mind if we drop the LogRotate option(s). I wouldn't
> even mind if we drop them all. Well. freshclam has the usefull question
> where you can choose between daemon, cron, and so on. I consider this
> usefull.

gentle ping.

> > Scott K
Sebastian