[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#770403: Bug#770403: clamav-freshclam: Don't log progress indication to syslog

[Scott Kitterman]

On Saturday, November 22, 2014 16:04:23 Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> Control: merge 767350 -1
> 
> Hi Olaf,
> 
> On 21.11.2014 00:59, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> > Since upgrading from 0.98.4+dfsg-2+b1 to 0.98.5~rc1+dfsg-2 on
> > 2014-10-30, freshclam has been sending progress indication messages to
> > syslog.  The last time I made any changes below /etc/clamav was on
> > 2014-06-10.
> 
> This is a duplicate of #767350, thus I'm merging the bugs.
> 
> > While a single message for the download may be syslog material, I don't
> > think that real-time progress indication is something that should be
> > logged.  That kind of information is only useful when running the
> > program interactively.
> > 
> > Please disable progress logging by default (for non-interactive use).
> 
> The fix I just pushed to git ensures that real-time progress indication
> only goes to ttys and only the last message to the journal/syslog.

Isn't this just a workaround for a systemd bug?  Why not fix it there?

Scott K