should clamav-data package supersede clamav-db ?

[Marc Schwartz]

Denis Leroy wrote:
> Matthias Saou wrote:
>> Jima wrote :
>>
>>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, David Timms wrote:
>>>> Perhaps changing the clamav-data package to obsolete clamav-db would 
>>>> be the nicest way to solve this. And if forge/fresh continue to 
>>>> package, it might be worth suggesting they do similar for their 
>>>> package ?
>>>   -1, Flamebait ;-)
>>
>> Why? First of all, the package doesn't come from freshrpms, but
>> rpmforge, as I've never packaged it on freshrpms ;-)
>> Second, you should contact Dries and suggest :
>> 1) To remove the rpmforge clamav packages for the Fedora releases which
>> have them in Extras
>> 2) To consider using the clamav-db name instead of clamav-data
>>
>> Then also poke the Extras clamav maintainer to have the proper
>> "Obsoletes: clamav-db <= last-known-V-R" added to the clamav-data
>> package.
> 
> I read several complaints on fedora-list about the way clamav is 
> packaged in Extras, I think that's why a lot of people use the RPMs from 
> other repos...

Not just the packaging, but the lack of updates to the application (not 
the virus sigs):

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230075

I have given up on FE's packaging at this point and gone ahead and 
updated from source to 0.90.1 on FC6.

While there were some changes that needed to be made in configs, etc, it 
wasn't tragic.

Enrico is going to have to address this at some point, or perhaps step 
aside and let someone else take on the burden. I appreciate his 
hesitancy regarding compatibility issues, but we all deal with that at 
some point or another in the life span of applications.

Marc Schwartz