wither clamav?

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 05/16/2007 09:30 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>> Ok I am going to step in it big time.. but I want to have a frank
>> discussion but try to avoid a flame-war.
>>
>> clamav seems to be frozen to 0.88.x for a while in Extras, but is no
>> longer supported upstream. I understand the reason for Enricho's
>> freezing it, but I think that I would like a more modern version of
>> clamav in EPEL before it gets published. There are a couple of items I
>> would like to address:
>>     
>
> My understanding is that Enricho does not want to support EPEL. Warren is
> the person who requested ClamAV for EPEL.  I would say get with him work
> it out and make it happen.  I think rebassing on the forge version is
> fine.
>   
with all due respect for Enrico's work, I give a +1 for this varioant. 
But...  is EPEL allowed to have packages which are substantially 
different to those in the former FE ?