[Pkg-clamav-devel] clamav 0.98.3 released

Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com
Fri May 9 20:48:57 UTC 2014


Hi,

On 09.05.2014 22:32, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Friday, May 09, 2014 22:01:13 Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>> On 09.05.2014 21:50, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>>> On 2014-05-09 20:37:37 [+0200], Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>>>> On 09.05.2014 13:06, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>>>>> On 09.05.2014 00:09, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>>>>>> We gained new options:
>>>>>> |Unhandled option(clamd.conf): DisableCache
>>>>>> |Unhandled option(clamd.conf): PartitionIntersection
>>>>>> |Unhandled option(clamd.conf): MaxPartitions
>>>>>> |Unhandled option(clamd.conf): MaxIconsPE
>>>>>> |Unhandled option(clamd.conf): StatsEnabled
>>>>>> |Unhandled option(clamd.conf): StatsPEDisabled
>>>>>> |Unhandled option(clamd.conf): StatsHostID
>>>>>> |Unhandled option(clamd.conf): StatsTimeout
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll create templates next.
>>>>
>>>> I decided against creating new templates for these options.
>>>> As I see it, they wouldn't be used anyway and we already have too many
>>>> options. So I just set them to their default values in the postinst.
>>>>
>>>> Do you agree with this, or should we add templates for (some of) them?
>>>
>>> I leave this up to Scott. My opinion was to get rid of those and just
>>> keep a verbose .conf file with a little explanation (english only
>>> was the downside).
>>
>> OK.
>
> I think we need to keep the debconf approach.  Too many people are used to it.
> I'm open to suggestions about what needs to be added to the templates.

I didn't suggest to abandon the debconf approach.
Let me rephrase my question: Do you think any of above options are 
important enough (i.e. likely enough to be changed by a user) to add 
debconf prompts for them?

Best regards,
Andreas



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