On Mon 18 Jan 2016 at 12:36:34 +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. > > These issues were reported in april 2015 and changing the package so it > no longer tries to retrieve these virus signatures if they are no longer > available would be quite simple. Despite this the package has not been > updated since 2014. > > I'm not sure the developer is MIA but he does have quite a few other > packages to maintain so may he's swamped or just lost interest in this > particular package. > https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=Paul+Wise
Paul Wise is a very active maintainer. > Having that having out of date or missing virus signatures has security > implications (more for some users that others, I'll grant you), getting > a handle on these bugs seems quite important. > > > So what's the proper way to report this issue? A bug report. After reading the existing ones.
