Re: [Pkg-clamav-devel] The future of clamav wrt. stable/volatile
Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Michael Tautschnig said:
>> There is just a slightly archive-specific problem: A package in main
>> must not depend on something outside main (at least so I guess, I
>> couldn't find the docs stating this rightaway). We'd thus need some
>> clamav package in main, and not only in volatile. Which more or less
>> is the situation we have today.
>
> A way around this problem might be to integrate volatile slightly more
> with the main dak archive. Treating volatile (from the point of view
> of dak) as a kind of proposed-updates queue (that may or may not get
> rolled into stable point releases) would allow us to have packages in
> main depend on packages in main/volatile (I think - ICBW).
As what you call main/volatile is not in stable, I don't think that's a
solution. The oposite would work though: packages in volatile depending
on packages in stable (like with proposed-updates...).
Cheers
Luk
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