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Re: clamav needs updating



This one time, at band camp, Jim Popovitch said:
> On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 10:26 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > This one time, at band camp, Javier Amor García said:
> > > Hello,
> > >   we are interested in the new version of clamav to use it in the new
> > > release of eBox [0]. 
> > > An updated ClamAV is one of the last missing pieces left for the release
> > > so we would like to know when the volatile package will be ready.
> > > It will be ready in the first half of this week?
> > 
> > No, probably not.  As I feared, we have found a piece of software
> > (avscan) that is broken by some changes in the clamav public API in this
> > release.  I have been talking to the maintainer, and he is working on a
> > patch with upstream.  Once I have some idea of how that's going, I will
> > upload to volatile, but not until we have a supportable path that
> > doesn't break other software in the archive, sorry.
> 
> How long will you wait on the dependent project avscan before releasing
> clamav? 

My interpretation of volatile's role with regard to the archive means
that the only answer possible is "when avscan is ready".  Maybe the
other volatile team members will have a different opinion.
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