Dear clamav Maintainers,

thanks for maintaining clamav in Debian and providing systemd units for
most programs. It appears clamav-milter still has an init.d script but
no systemd unit. Please consider providing a corresponding unit file.

I cant say I understand how the sendmail<->clamav integration works, or
if the service file from Fedora would work in Debian, but maybe this is
a starting point:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/clamav/blob/rawhide/f/clamav-milter.systemd

This request is to reduce the list of packages relying on
systemd-sysv-generator(8). If you think systems running systemd do not
benefit from clamav-milter, please override the lintian tag
missing-systemd-service-for-init.d-script .

Many thanks,
Chris

I think it would definitely benefit from it, the challenge we have is that
neither of the active maintainers use it, so we're really not in much of a
position to verify it's correct.

At a glance, the Fedora service file looks largely correct, but would need some
customization for Debian.  I'm not sure near freeze is the best time to mess
with it.

Scott K

* Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> [230131 00:45]:

Probably not. Do you want a ping after the freeze?

Chris

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: affects -1 systemd

Dear maintainer(s),

Bumping severity of this, like other
missing-systemd-service-for-init.d-script bugs. Support for init
scripts is now removed in systemd v260, and the clamav milter
autopkgtest is failing, blocking systemd from migrating:

75s autopkgtest [09:39:05]: test milter: [-----------------------
75s ERROR: clamav-milter IS NOT RUNNING

https://ci.debian.net/packages/c/clamav/testing/amd64/68982996/

If you do not wish to ship a unit file that is absolutely fine and
entirely up to you, but then please adjust the autopkgtest so that it
is skipped when running under systemd. Thanks!

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
clamav, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1030083@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> (supplier of updated clamav package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:16:36 +0200
Source: clamav
Architecture: source
Version: 1.4.4+dfsg-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: ClamAV Team <pkg-clamav-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Closes: 1030083 1129105
Changes:
 clamav (1.4.4+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Import 1.4.4
     - CVE-2026-20031 (Fixed an error handling bug in the HTML file parser)
   * Add a clamav-milter service file (Closes: #1030083, #1129105).
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