[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#902290: Too abrupt removal of configuration option in stable update

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

control: tags -1 patch

On 2018-07-04 14:06:54 [+0200], To Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> On 2018-06-24 17:12:19 [+0200], Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> > My mailserver logs now contain 'ERROR: Parse error at line 74: Unknown
> > option StatsHostID', and when that's removed, it reports the next option
> > that is removed, 'StatsPEDisabled', and so on.
> …
> > Or, alternatively when throwing newer versions in stable, they have to
> > be closely inspected to detect options that are removed and get patches
> > like you did for #826406.
> 
> I'm sorry. I've seen the removal of options and I didn't think about
> this. If handle the config file with debconf then the option should
> vanish automaticaly. However if you edit the file manually then user's
> input is required and if nothing happens then clamav will abort.
> 
> I intend to address this to for deb9 and document this behaviour so I
> will remember it next time. I have to figure out who is in charge of
> deb8 and I *think* it is LTS by now.

so I added a fix [0] to the Stretch branch for this. It would be nice if
you could have a look on the Stretch package in case something else is
missing :)

With this change you should see something like
| Jul 04 22:14:08 deb9amd64 clamd[8720]: WARNING: Ignoring deprecated option StatsTimeout at line 88
| Jul 04 22:14:08 deb9amd64 clamd[8720]: WARNING: Ignoring deprecated option StatsPEDisabled at line 89

and move on.
Now Jessie. It would be nice if the LTS team could pick it up. On the
other hand the point-release exposed the problem and everyone had to
deal with it…

[0] https://salsa.debian.org/clamav-team/clamav/blob/stretch/debian/patches/Deprecate-unused-options-instead-of-removing-it.patch

> > Thanks,

Sebastian