Question about update of clamav

[James Kosin]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> James Kosin wrote:
>> b)  0.95 made significant changes to milter.  This may be the cause for
>> the delay.  And there is no real threat for using 0.94.2 other than not
>> being the latest release.
> 
> Judging from previous history, the clamav maintainer is extremely cautious
> about potentially breaking existing installs and never pushes out any
> version upgrade which bumps the soname and/or potentially breaks user
> configuration. 0.95 does both. So I think clamav will never be updated in
> Fedora 10. Fedora 11 already has 0.95. The only clamav updates issued after
> upstream stops producing point releases for the old version are security
> backports, usually by Thomas Hoger from the security team, and usually
> late. The maintainer doesn't even bother fixing critical security bugs.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 
Well clamav-0.95.1 also has the old milter source available for those
not wanting to update to the latest milter.  The only issue I've heard
with this is that compiling milter is not as straightforward if using
this approach.
If the maintainer is unable to unwilling to fix critical issues then
they really are not doing much more than compiling and packaging which
can easily be done in ones sleep.

James Kosin

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