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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote : Re: Clamavtk and freshclam installed says new update available. For what? Virus database or app? If app then why i can download older app?

The remaining message one could discuss is

"^Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!"

Which will indeed be always shown except in phases were we released an update until there is yet another one upstream.

The following puts it a bit in context:
""DON'T PANIC! Read https://docs.clamav.net/manual/Installing.html""

But I agree that it only explains the upstream part of it.

There might indeed be a benefit of confusing users less.
Not by removing the message, but by pointing to a better written version of my explanation above?

I thought this exists already and there I found an actual issue
Maybe add a section to to /usr/share/doc/clamav/README.Debian.gz and emit a log line after the pointer to https://docs.clamav.net/manual/Installing.html?

This discussion isn't new at all, the net is full of people asking "Oh I see Outdated" and others telling them "yeah, but it is not ..." - so considering an extra entry might be worth it?
As an example, e.g. in [1] users also asked to make it less panic'y

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=986622#59