On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 04:42:41PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 04:06:11PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> >>>   Setting up clamav-getfiles (2.0-4) ...
> >>>   eicar.com md5sum mismatch, file needs downloading
> >>>   curl --remote-name http://www.eicar.org/download/eicar.com
> >>>   
> >>>   curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
> >>>   dpkg: error processing clamav-getfiles (--configure):
> >>>    subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 7
> >> It is reproducible by installing your package in a clean chroot - cleaned
> >> up using:
> >>  debfoster -o MaxPriority=required -o UseRecommends=no -f -n apt debfoster
> > 
> > Please explain what a package which needs to download a non-free file
> > from the Internet should do if the Internet is not available.
> > 
> > fyi, there is a debconf question asking whether the file should be
> > downloaded or not. It defaults to yes for a reason.
> 
> The package should be contrib...

Please explain why. The package asks whether it is allowed to
download, and it works fine if it received the answer "no". It is just
a little bit less secure then.

Greetings
Marc, losing more motivation for Debian

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