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

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday, July 17, 2014 00:26:09 Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.  It is sometimes hard to tell when a project is abandoned vice mature. 
When the issue came up about the libclamav initialization change in 0.98.4, 
the havp upstream was active on the clamav list and said he'd do a new release 
if needed.  I don't think it's dead.

I decided to go ahead with this and mailed the maintainer to see if they are 
willing to give it up.  It does not appear he's active any Debian anymore so I 
expect either no response or agreement.

I think dansguardian is worth looking into as well.

Scott K