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Bug#1037250: ITP: fangfrisch -- Update and verify unofficial Clam Anti-Virus signatures



* Paul Wise:

> I wonder if there is any tool that generates and/or contains the
> appropriate ClamAV configs for popular unofficial signatures,
> rather than manually downloading those signatures themselves.

What do you mean by "manually downloading"? Fangfrisch is meant
to be invoked by a scheduler like cron, verifies the integrity
of downloads, avoids unnecessary downloads altogether, renames
signature files if so desired by the user -- all without user
interaction. Also, downloads (i.e. URL-based access) are handled
using the Requests library [1], possibly the most popular Python
library available for this purpose?

> Perhaps Fangfrisch should become such a tool?

I am unsure what exactly you are suggesting. Do you propose I
remove existing functionality, proven robust? Functionality
which freshclam does not offer as of June 2023?

-Ralph

[1] https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/


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