Bug#942292: exim4.template.conf for clean buster install av_scanner incorrect

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Mon Oct 14 15:50:32 BST 2019


On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 09:23:17AM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On 2019-10-14 01:21, Serge Rijkers wrote:
> > exim4.template.conf contains:
> > 
> > av_scanner = clamd: /var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl
> > 
> > clean buster clamav-daemon uses /run/clamav/clamd.ctl
> > 
> > For a on tech-savvy user this is difficult to diagnose
> > possibly exim4.template.conf should contain:
> > 
> > av_scanner = clamd:/run/clamav/clamd.ctl
> 
> Debian Policy requires that /var/run be a symlink to /run, so that change
> should make no difference.

Also, the configuration option is commented in the default file, and
there is not even a macro to enable it. So, who enables this already
knows her way around things.

This should, IMO, be fixed in unstable and testing (it's a no-brainer
one-line change), but I don't think we should do this in stable.

Greetings
Marc

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