On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:20:44 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 17 February 2011 11:05:42 Camaleón wrote:
>> > From what I understand, the clamav binaries are only updated in >> > stable (even in stable/volatile or stable-updates) when a new version >> > is needed in order to use the updated virus definitions, or for the >> > normal stable update criteria. >> >> Uh? Is that true? I thought the whole volatile repo was also handling >> "oldstable" packages? :-? > > I wasn't clear. I mean that just because there is a new upstream > version of ClamAV, that doesn't mean it will get included in volatile. > It might be appropriate for volatile, but not all new upstream versions > are. Yes, I know that and I'm fine with that policy. What made me getting a bit nervous was not seeing much activity in volatile's mailing list. >> > However clamav (and more and more software) starts getting noisy as >> > soon as upstream provides a new version, for whatever reason. Even >> > in A/V software, not every upgrade is appropriate for stable. >> >> Well, I don't read all and each of the ClamAV new released changelogs >> to see what has been patched, but being an AV I'd expect a new version >> corrects some severe bugs and not just "cosmetic" errors. > > While I don't think your expectation is well-founded, if it is the case > that the new version corrects some severe bugs, I would expect it not > only in lenny-volatile but also lenny-proposed-updates. Maybe not > lenny-proposed- updates, but I think the RC-level bug fix policy in > oldstable is roughly the same as stable. Here is the changelog... you finally made me to read it ;-) http://git.clamav.net/gitweb?p=clamav-devel.git;a=blob_plain;f=ChangeLog;hb=clamav-0.97 >From 0.96.5 (released on Tue Nov 30) to 0.97 (released on Mon Feb 7) I can't see any pacth that can be considered dangerous or remotely exploitable, so all seems okay. I'll patiently wait and see. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.02.17.17.53...@gmail.com
