Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Mike Brodbelt wrote, Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:42 AM > >>I wonder if it would be worth the clamav site hosting debs for Woody. >>Clamav isn't in woody at all, and the most recent backport I've found is >>approaching 2 months old. > > > That'd be because the most recent package in sid is approaching two months > old. > > There's a very good reason for that - the Debian maintainer has a policy of > only backporting bugfixes, and not features, from non-released Clamav > versions. (In fact, he doesn't have much of a choice - given Sarge's Release > Manager's policy, such packages could have been uploaded, but they'd have to > have gone into experimental, not sid).
Yes, I know that'w why Debian doesn't have packages in the official release, and on the whole I think Debian's policy solves more problems than it creates. However, that wouldn't preclude the ClamAV website from carrying debs of a CVS snapshot or the latest stable release that are installable on Woody (or Sarge, for that matter). Whether it's worth doing this is the question I was asking. I build local debs of ClamAV to install on my Woody server, and from reading the list, it appears that at least a few others here do the same. It might be nice to either:- 1/ Have someone who builds debs for themselves provide them as a "sold as seen" service for others who want/need a newer clamav than debian ships. 2/ As some other packages do, ship with a "debian" directory in the source tree, so debian users can download a tarball, unpack, and just run dpkg-buildpackage. It's be interesting to know how many people here run ClamAV on Debian, which release of Debian they're using, which release of ClamAV they're using, and whether they build locally installable packages themselves, get them from some other source, or just install in /usr/local outside the auspices of the package management system. Mike. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
