[Pkg-clamav-devel] Adopting havp into pkg-clamav

Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 16 22:26:09 UTC 2014


Hi,

On 08.07.2014 21:00, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2014-07-07 00:44:48 [-0400], Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> It looks like havp is rather undermaintained, but wouldn't take a lot of work
>> to get it back into testing.  Would anyone be willing to help out if I adopt
>> it into the team (I'll contact the existing maintainer first, I haven't done
>> that yet)?
>
> Clamav seems quiet now and there isn't anything important on the list,
> right? So in that case I might help out if the other clamav related
> package are good to go.

Given that havp is related to clamav, I'm not opposed adopting it into 
the team, ...

> BUT before you go and adopt it, please make sure that it is really worth
> it. c-icap has a clamav plugin but uses the ICAP protocol (whatever that
> is) so it might not be a replacement for havp.
> Dansguardian on the other hand seems to do the same thing as havp (on
> the first look).
> The upstream of both project looks kind of dead. Last release in 2010
> for havp vs an alpha release in 2012 for dansguardian.

... however, these seem to be valid concerns.

Also havp hasn't been really popular with at maximum 160 popcon 
submitters back in 2010 [1]. Currently 100 remain, although that might 
grow again (fast?), if havp gets into stable.

But if you think it worthwhile, I can help with fixing the RC-bugs.

Best regards,
Andreas

1: https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=havp



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