Re: Reporting unmaintained packages
On Mon 18 Jan 2016 at 15:40:57 +0100, Francesco Ariis wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:36:34PM +0100, Francois Gouget wrote:
> >> The clamav-unofficial-sigs package has quite important bugs that cause
> >> it to fail to retrieve the SecuriteInfo virus signatures and send cron
> >> spam every 4 hours.
> >>
> >> [..]
> >>
> >> So what's the proper way to report this issue?
>
> Hello Francois,
> I assume the bug you are talking about is #783228 [1].
> clamav-unofficial-sigs is not maintained by a single person, but by
> ClamAV Team.
> So if you reply to the bug (783228@bugs.debian.org), the mail should go
> to their list [2]. As usual with human matters, I bet the more
> clear/helpful you are, the likelier a positive outcome will be :P.
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783228
> [2] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-clamav-devel
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 01:45:01PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> > A bug report. After reading the existing ones.
>
> He's talking about an already open bug report, having obviously checked
> it. I am starting to wonder if you even fully read the messages you
> reply to.
We both recommend submitting a bug report. Unfortunately, my mind reading
and assumption skills are not completely operative at the best of times,
so what the OP has read or not read didn't figure in my response.
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