tags 502165 +fixed-upstream thanks This one time, at band camp, Toni Mueller said: > I've just upgraded to the clamav package and found a number of > previously-accepted command line switches to no longer work. > Examples include --unzoo, or --lha. Also, the man page still has this > example: > > clamscan -d /tmp/newclamdb --max-space=50m -r /tmp > > which stopped to work since about two versions ago, due to --max-space > now being no longer accepted. > > It would be nice if deprecating command line switches like this would at > least either elicit a warning instead of an error, a prominent > apt-listchanges notice, this all be better documented, and the man page > be brought in sync with the actual program. > > Just silently changing the behaviour "under the hood" is a nuisance when > running clamscan "unattended" from your favourite mail filtering > script...
Yeah, agreed. As always, docs lag behind reality. Sorry about that. There has been some work done upstream so that options that are deprecated aren't fatal and will throw warnings instead. Meantime, the docs have been fixed upstream. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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