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Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)



* Thomas Bushnell BSG (tb@becket.net) [041008 18:20]:
> In other words, it sounds like the whole virus-scanner bit is a red
> herring, and what you actually want is just a repository that doesn't
> have the stability restrictions that Debian normally has.  Maybe
> that's a good idea, but it needs to be argued for by something other
> than "oooh, virus scanners!"

This repository exists, and it's called backports.org.

For the volatile archive, there _is_ one difference: The volatile
archive is only for the packages that have some regression due to the
fact that some time has passed - and e.g. virus scanners typically have
this behaviour.


Cheers,
Andi
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