[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#826406: Too abrupt removal of AllowSupplementaryGroups option in stable

[Hans van Kranenburg]

Package: clamav-daemon
Version: 0.99.2+dfsg-0+deb8u1
Severity: serious

Hi Maintainer,

The version in the main Debian Stable archive (so not in the additional 
jessie-updates) has the option AllowSupplementaryGroups removed (see 
#822444), which prevents the program from starting when this option is 
present in the configuration file:

clamd[27916]: ERROR: Parse error at line 12: Unknown option 
AllowSupplementaryGroups
clamd[27916]: ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /etc/clamav/clamd.conf

I had to set this option to be able to use clamav with postfix on my 
incoming mail servers, and I should not expect them to stop processing 
mail because of stable updates.

Updates of packages in Debian Stable must never break existing 
installations by changing APIs (configuration file considered being some 
kind of API).

At least make the option deprecated and ignore it with a warning if set, 
and only make it disappear when upgrading to Stretch.

Thanks,

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