Hi Niko, Am 08.06.2015 um 23:00 schrieb Niko Tyni: > Package: libfile-scan-perl > Version: 1.43-2 > Severity: serious > X-Debbugs-Cc: mimedef...@packages.debian.org > > This module was last updated upstream in 2005. For a module that deals > with virus scanning, that seems like a very long time. Is there > any reason to keep this package around, or should we rather > have it removed? > > The only reverse dependency is mimedefang, which Suggests and > Build-Depends on libfile-scan-perl. I'm cc'ing the maintainer. > Christoph, do you think we should keep libfile-scan-perl? >
I asked upstream: >> Does mimedefang really need File::Scan? Is it needed for virus >> scanning? > > No, it isn't needed. We were going to put all the virus-scanning code > in a reusable Perl module called File::Scan, but the person who > was maintaining it left the company and (alas) I've let it languish. > So you can remove it as a dependency for MIMEDefang. So the answer is, yes we can drop libfile-scan-perl. Christoph
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