[Pkg-clamav-devel] ClamAV Team Package Updates

[Scott Kitterman]

Over the last several weeks I've been trying to get caught up on my Debian 
work after having been absent for awhile.  Sebastian, thanks for keeping 
clamav up to date.

Since it looks like you have clamav itself well in hand, I haven't done 
anything with it.  I did update clamtk to the newest release.

I've uploaded the upstream cvdupdate tool to New as clamav-cvdupdate.  It is 
pretty easy to get blacklisted by attempting too many data downloads.  Anyone 
with a non-trivial number of systems is going to end up running a private 
mirror for the data, so it seems like the upstream blessed tool to download 
the data without freshclam is something we should provide to users.

I was also looking at adding an autopkgtest to pyclamd and while I got it 
mostly working (it needs a running clamd), each test run downloaded the data 
and I was quickly over my quota.  I don't think running autopkgtests for 
clamav related packages will scale very well if they all download data for the 
tests.

I am considering if we should resurrect the clamav-data package, not as an 
auto-generated, auto-uploaded (which are the reasons it got removed before) 
'current' version of the clamav data, but as a test data repository that we 
can depend on for tests to run them without hitting the clamav mirrors.

If we did that, we could make it an alternate depends with freshclam, as it 
was before.

That's what's up on the clamav front from my end.  Anything else I can help 
with?

Scott K
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