Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:59:44AM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:51:28 -0700, Freeman wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 03:46:32PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>
> (...)
>
> >> > Note you don't need to use squeeze-updates, so we are opting into
> >> > something which can be a little more bleeding edge.
> >>
> >> Please, note that we are not talking about clamav database updates but
> >> the package itself. If the policy has changed, good and glad to know,
> >> but to be sincere, I'm not aware of that and would be nice if someone
> >> can point to it.
> >>
> >>
> > http://wiki.debian.org/StableUpdates
> >
> > . . . This path will be used for updates which many users may wish to
> > install on their systems before the next point release is made, such as
> > updates to virus scanners and timezone data. All packages from
> > squeeze-updates will be included in point releases.
> >
> > However I take it you are drawing a distinction between security and
> > other updates. But would not that then concern debian-security rather
> > than squeeze-updates?
>
> I only know how this went for lenny.
>
> Lenny shipped with a clamav version (0.94) different than the one
> available at lenny's volatile repo (0.97) and AFAICT, this was how it
> worked: volatile repo was aimed to get upgrades for a small set of
> packages that changed from time to time (like clamav, SA or tzdata) but
> this upgrades were in paralel from the ones coming from stable branch,
> that is, you can be running lenny with either clamav packages (stock
> ones, 0.94 or volatile, 0.97).
>
> Indeed, I asked the same question here not much ago:
>
> ClamAV update to 0.97
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg01759.html
>
> I'm still with lenny (now oldstable) but I was even told that not all
> security flaws reached votatile, just some, depending of the nature of
> the flaw...
>
> And again, if this policy has recently changed is more than very welcome,
> my clamav is also claiming for an update and oldstable is still supported.
>
This flow chart should clear everything up nicely. ;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Debian-package-cycl.svg
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Regards,
Freeman
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