[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#951057: Bug#951057: clamav-freshclam: allow overriding of CA store

[Scott Kitterman]

On February 21, 2020 11:09:52 PM UTC, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian at breakpoint.cc> wrote:
>On 2020-02-17 21:15:57 [+0000], Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> Thanks.  It looks like clamav-freshclam will also need Depends
>> ca-certificates added.  I'd prefer Recommends if we can get away with
>> it.  What do you think?
>
>I think it makes sense. As things are right now, you need the cert
>package or freschlam will fail by default. It is not strictly required
>because you could use a private mirror or use http:// prefix at the
>beginning of the hostname and it should use not use https (that is what
>I noticed in the source code).
>
>Worth noting: apt is `essential' and recommends ca-certificates so
>there
>is atleast one package on the system recommending it. If I try to
>remove
>ca-certificates on any of my systems apt then wants to remove packages
>which I wouldn't expect that they depend on it :)
>
>Sebastian

Let's go with Recommends then.

Scott K