Re: Bug#582313: Keeping python-clamav in Squeeze
"Philipp Kern" <pkern@debian.org> wrote:
>On 08/07/2010 05:09 PM, Cédric Delfosse wrote:
>> Le vendredi 06 août 2010 à 23:31 -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit :
>>
>>> If it's decided to release Squeeze with clamav, I think it would be good to
>>> keep python-clamav too. The main use case is for admins who have written
>>> their own scripts.
>>>
>>> I don't think it will be that difficult to keep up. Clamav upstream is doing a
>>> better job with maintaining ABI compatibility. If the current maintainer is
>>> not interested in maintaining this in Squeeze, I'd be glad to adopt it into
>>> DPMT where we are already maintaining python-pyclamd.
>>>
>>> Scott K
>>>
>>> P.S. I'm not subscribed to debian-release, so please cc me on any replies.
>>>
>> Hi Scott !
>>
>> As upstream says: "You are now strongly encouraged to use pyClamd" [1]
>>
>> So I think the best thing to do would be to abandon this package. But if
>> clamav enter Squeeze and you want to maintain python-pyclamav, feel free
>> to adopt it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Cédric
>>
>> [1] http://xael.org/norman/python/pyclamav/
>>
>
>Scott, would this be an appropriate replacement? python-pyclamd is
>currently in testing, but it has a very low version number and not much
>updates, neither. (I.e. I don't know if it works as expected.) Would
>you mind looking into it?
>
Last I checked it did work and it would be very surprising if it didn't continue to do so.
At a high level (can you scan a file from Python with it) it does the same thing, but python-clamav does have additional functions not supported by python-pyclamd. It also doesn't require a running daemon to work.
Now that clamav API/ABI appears to be stabalizing, I think the maintenance overhead of keeping python-clamav will not be much.
Scott K
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