2011/12/22 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg@gmail.com:
On 12/22/2011 06:52 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
2011/12/22 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"johannbg@gmail.com:
I'm in the midst of converting legacy sysv init scripts that use /usr/share/clamav/clamd-wrapper to native systemd units and I have noticed some discrepancy in their packaging which indicate a lack of guidelines.
Granted that I'm no clamav expert but from what I can tell the packages that use the clamd-wrapper should all be doing the same thing and the package that does it most right from my point of view is exim-clamd and the worst one being dansguardian ( which seems to be yet another package we ship that is neglected by it's maintainer(s) I come across in the migration process).
Clamav has been a special set of packages with a convoluted history from when it was a package in Fedora Extras. It has many ideas that were experimented with back then but not used later. It is probably a package that needs a serious rethunk. How it is started and packaged has effects on other packages so it is a Gordian knot.
Which we will unloose in the form of policy...
Policy is only useful if a) it is believed in b) it is followed.
That means finding people who use a package (or class of packages) to see what they are doing and why... and then you can figure out if you can articulate that into a policy first. Otherwise the policy ends up causing more headaches than fun. What level of communication have you had with Enrico or users of the package.