BUG: clamav packages badly broken

Dan Horák dan at danny.cz
Sat Dec 29 09:17:25 UTC 2007


Florin Andrei píše v Pá 28. 12. 2007 v 19:20 -0800:
> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > flame wars), translation issues, or the reality of it.. it was pretty
> > much either his way or someone else maintain it and all his other
> > packages. Since that was not what I was looking for.. I decided to let
> > it rest.
> 
> I don't know what are the approval criteria, but the following test must 
> be passed by any package containing a daemon (service) before it's released:
> 
> A package containing a daemon (service) must successfully execute 
> "service daemon-init-script start" after the package has been installed. 
> This command must launch a working instance of the daemon, with at least 
> the basic functions enabled, the definition of "basic" depending on the 
> daemon. No configuration changes should be required for that. Examples: 
> Apache, Sendmail, Postfix, Squid.
> 

Sorry, but this is simply not true. I own 2 packages that will never
work like that. They need a manual configuration before they can be
started.


		Dan





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