Bug#269448: [peter@sysnix.com: exim4-base: using install to set directory permissions ignores dpkg-statoverride settings]

[Roderick Schertler]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 17:43:16 +0200, Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> said:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 05:25:42PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>
> Isn't it exiscan's reason of existence to avoid virus scanners
> meddling around with the queue?

It isn't the queue they need to access.  exiscan-acl unpacks the message
into /var/spool/exim4/scan then runs the virus scanner on the files
there.  The scanner needs access to this directory.

I can confirm that the problem happens in the real world.  I was also
using dpkg-statoverride to allow my virus scanner to work, and the
upgrade (to 4.34-6, from I don't know what) broke it.

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