On 2016-06-05 13:27:08 [+0200], Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > Hi Maintainer, Hi,
> The version in the main Debian Stable archive (so not in the additional > jessie-updates) has the option AllowSupplementaryGroups removed (see > #822444), which prevents the program from starting when this option is > present in the configuration file: > > clamd[27916]: ERROR: Parse error at line 12: Unknown option > AllowSupplementaryGroups > clamd[27916]: ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /etc/clamav/clamd.conf > > I had to set this option to be able to use clamav with postfix on my > incoming mail servers, and I should not expect them to stop processing mail > because of stable updates. > > Updates of packages in Debian Stable must never break existing installations > by changing APIs (configuration file considered being some kind of API). I wasn't aware that this might break existing installations. I had always the debconf popping up and the the diff was simple so… > At least make the option deprecated and ignore it with a warning if set, and > only make it disappear when upgrading to Stretch. So you want me to do another stable update and ignore this option if set/unset. Sounds reasonable give the circumstances. Did you have unattended-upgrades running? > Thanks, Sebastian
