This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > Hi, > > the clamav-data database is growing and growing. The clamav-data build > mechanism works like this: > > - download clamav-data (on plain etch) (3 mins) > - test clamav-data databases (on plain etch) (13 mins) > - build package (1 min) > - test package on plain etch (13 mins) > - test package on etch+volatile (1 min) > - test package on lenny (1 min) > - test package on sid (1 min) > - upload package to volatile (4 mins) > > We see that testing the database on etch takes quite a long time, > which drives the build time over the magic 30 minutes level. > > This can be verified on a different system - as soon as the clamav > from etch is in the game, things are _slooooooow_. > > I am therefore pondering to drop plain etch support for clamav-data, > which would mean building them on etch+volatile and not testing the > resulting package on plain etch any more. The package is likely to > continue working on plain etch without being tested there, but testing > just takes too much time. > > What do you think about that? I would be very surprised if someone was using clamav-data from volatile without also using clamav from volatile. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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