Re: clamav 0.97.1 not coming to squeeze-updates ?

[D G Teed <donald.teed@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:58:43 +0200, Eric Viseur wrote:

> In my understanding, the stable-updates repo was esthablished in order
> to replace the volatile repo.  Thus, updated clamav should be pushed in
> it, but I note it's only available in the testing branch. Did I
> misunderstood the role of the stable-updates repo, or is clam 0.97.1
> just coming in late ?

Nope, your understaing is totally correct, but...

> I have a server complaining about clam not being up to date every
> night, so it's getting a little annoying, and I'd like to avoid apt
> -pinning if possible.

... for the stable/olstable branch is my understanding that only security
bugfixes are corrected, so if the clamav update does not closes any
serious flaw you will keep seeing the clamav warning at the logs. But
don't worry, your clients are still protected, your AV firms updated and
your files analyzed for any treat.

 

This is incorrect. Here are the announcement of squeeze-updates,
with a list of reasons why squeeze-updates will push ahead a release...
http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/2011/msg00000.html

It even mentions clamav as one which needs to be current to be useful.

Our expectations for squeeze-updates to release clamav ahead of stable
merely to be current are correct.

Note you don't need to use squeeze-updates, so we are opting into something
which can be a little more bleeding edge.

If you only want security and bug fixes that is handled by security repo
and standard stable repo.