Bug#198311: RFP: eicar-installer -- downloads the EICAR virus test pattern from the Web
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2003-06-21
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : eicar-installer
Description : downloads the EICAR virus test pattern from the Web
The EICAR virus test pattern is an important tool to test virus
scanners. However, unfortunately, it does not have a free license and
cannot be distributed with Debian.
This package downloads the EICAR virus test pattern from the Web in
its postinst. It can thus be relied on that the EICAR virus test
pattern is available in /var/lib/eicar-installer/eicar.com if
eicar-installer is installed. That way, a package needing the EICAR
virus test pattern for its operation could depend on eicar-installer
instead of having to take care for downloading eicar.com itself.
If none of the other developers volunteers to build that package, I
will do so next week.
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux torres 2.4.20-ac1-vlan-psmp #1 Sun Dec 1 21:56:22 UTC 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE
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