Re: [Pkg-clamav-devel] The future of clamav wrt. stable/volatile
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:56:43 +0100 Michael Tautschnig <mt@debian.org> wrote:
>[...]
>> >
>> > We had discussed this during the Security Team meeting in Essen: We
believe
>> > clamav shouldn't be included in stable; malware scan engines are a
constantly
>> > moving target and it's pointless to backport changes since new
signatures
>> > constantly require new scan engine features all the time. So moving it
to
>> > volatile is the best solution for everyone.
>> Ehm, its not a solution for me to move dansguardian to volatile only. It
>> guess that counts for other applications that link against clamav too.
>>
>
>Would you mind adding the rationale why this is not a solution for you?
I'm not
>claiming that moving to volatile indeed is a solution, but getting some
more
>insight would be nice.
One question I have (I have not dealt with volatile before) is about
support for multiple releases. Does it have separate pockets for stable
and oldstable?
Scott K
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