Hi all, (Dared to fix CC/Subject which seemed to be somewhat broken in initial email.)
> The release team have been asked to remove ClamAV from testing (and > hence the next stable release. See bug #587058. > > The issue seems to be that it's not supportable in stable due to the > upstream maintainers deciding to upgrade their data files in a way that > isn't binary compatable with previous versions. > > A couple of options have been mentioned for what to do with this, > including volatile. I'm opening this mail thread for discussion, and if > no one comments then I'll go ahead and action the bug report in two > weeks. For avoidance of doubt, this will also affect reverse > depends, see dd-list below. > [...] Has there been feedback other than Christian's idea of adding a kind-of-transitional package? Speaking as clamav maintainer, we'll happily continue to upload to unstable, and if migration to testing (and stable) is permitted - so be it, but the volatile-path seems to be a lot more promising and future-proof. That said, the clamav ABI/API is surely stabilizing and hence users of clamav packages from stable might be better off than before. But there's no guarantee that they really get all the latest&greatest detection capabilities. One clear volatile-only advantage is added cleanliness: No need to mess around with different versions that actually are the same packages, and it just feels a lot better if we can have a package in volatile only, and not in unstable as well. Best, Michael
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