[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#867877: clamav-daemon: please respect manual configuration

[Luca Capello]

severity 867877 minor
tags 867877 + upstream
thanks

Hi there,

On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 19:08:15 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2017-07-10 23:39:53 [+0200], To Luca Capello wrote:
> > On 2017-07-10 11:40:20 [+0200], Luca Capello wrote:
> > > while debugging why the TCP socket was not responding, I discovered that
> > > everything was fine if clamd was manually started via the CLI.  And then
> > > I found <https://bugs.debian.org/771911>.
> > > 
> > > Please, this is becoming ridiculous:
> > > 
> > > - clamd works as expected with *its* own configuration
> > > - there is no documentation in /usr/share/doc/clamav-daemon about the
> > >   need to dpkg-reconfigure clamav-daemon to change parameters (and even
> > >   worse behavior)
> > > - non-Debian configuration via manual modifications or automatic tools
> > >   (e.g. <https://forge.puppet.com/edestecd/clamav>) is not respected
> > 
> > so what is the problem? You want additional documentation or somehow
> > changed behavior?
[...]
> > That systemd service file is part of upstream since a few releases. You
> > could argue if systemd's socket "feature" should be used or not or third
> > party tools extended to the extend.conf file in systemd's case. Or the
> > documentation updated.
> 
> If there is no feedback, I have no idea what I can/should do.

Given that no documentation was available, not even in the upstream
files, I was lost, so this would be the first improvement.

I was not aware that upstream chose the "full-systemd path", so I guess
changing that is a no-op, so at least the documentation must be fixed.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

-- 
Luca Capello
Administrateur GNU/Linux

Infomaniak Network SA
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