Jim Preston wrote:
Forcing an upgrade by flipping a kill switch was AN option, but it wasn't the only one.
No one is arguing that there weren't other options. However, it was their decision to make to move forward with incompatible signatures to support new features. Code changes were put into 0.95.3 (and maybe earlier in the 0.95 tree) which allows clamd to continue running with the new signatures and just does not use them. That is not the issue, the issue is pre 0.95 could not handle the new signatures and everyone had 6 months do something about it.
Yes, we all know that something had to be done, but just two days ago, the argument most definitely was that there was **NO** other option - absolutely no other option and this was the **ONLY** way to do it.
Now you at least are coming round to the acceptance that there were other options. That has been part of people's objections - apart from choosing the option they did, at least in these threads, the argument has been that "there was **NO** other option", which quite frankly was never accepted as true or reasonable.
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