On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:49:56 +0100
Trog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 15:24, Rob Evers wrote:
> > Trog wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 14:30, Stefan Hornburg wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>In that case we should probably rot somewhere, but you make the life for
> > >>packager's
> > >>of ClamAV (e.g. Debian) unnecessarily hard.
> > >
> > >
> > > Are you saying that you would otherwise have simply left the existing
> > > clamav.conf file unaltered, thereby leaving users open to known
> > > malware/viruses?
> > >
> > > -trog
> > >
> >
> > Maybe parsing the old configure file and warn during install or
> > runtime if there are obsolete or missing options ?
>
> And what prevents that happening now, prefixed by a 'mv'? The only
> difference is that now the packagers have to actually think about it,
> rather than just ignoring the issue of new config directives.
Moving involves some care and they need to notice the user of this
change. Packagers usually won't ignore the issue of new config directives,
and if they do testers will happily write bug reports.
Bye
Racke
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