Bug#1027463: transition: clamav

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On January 4, 2023 7:27:46 PM UTC, Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> wrote:
>Control: tags -1 confirmed
>
>Hi Scott
>
>On 2022-12-31 19:29:53 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> Package: release.debian.org
>> Severity: normal
>> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
>> Usertags: transition
>> X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-clamav-devel.alioth-lists.debian.net
>> 
>> As discussed in a separate email to the release team list yesterday, we,
>> unfortunately have a need to do a late clamav transition.
>> 
>> The clamav project now maintains specified releases with long term
>> support.  Currently we have 0.103 in stable/testing/unstable.  We should
>> be able to maintain clamav for the expected life of bullseye with 0.103.
>> 
>> For bookworm we will need to transition to clamav 1.0/libclamav11 at
>> some point and we believe it's better to do it now that during the
>> freeze or even potentially after release.  The move from 0.103 to 1.0 is
>> more complicated that usual due to upstream switching from autorools to
>> CMake and the introduction of Rust code into libclamav.
>> 
>> The package is availalbe in experimental, but still needs some cleanup
>> before it's ready for release.  We will be working on this over then
>> next couple of days and anticipate being ready for the transition
>> mid-week.
>> 
>> There are three reverse build-depends for libclamav-dev:
>> 
>> * c-icap-modules
>> * cyrus-imapd
>> * pg-snakeoil
>> 
>> I've test built all three with the clamav 1.0 packages in experimental
>> with no issue.
>> 
>> Additionally, there is libclamunrar in non-free that will also need to
>> be updated.  The clamav team will address that after the transition is
>> done.
>
>Please go ahead.
>
>Cheers

Thanks.  Uploaded.

Scott K