[Pkg-clamav-devel] Freeze Exception for 0.93.3?

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Scott Kitterman said:
> What are your thoughts on how far we go to keep Clamav up to date in Lenny?  
> 
> In Ubuntu we've pushed rather hard to release with an up to date clamav when 
> it's a point release that doesn't break rdepends (I recognize that the Ubuntu 
> style is rather more forward leaning on these kinds of issues, so it's not 
> directly relevant).  
> 
> I would think 0.93.3 would be a good thing to have a freeze exception for.  
> The only new clamav bug since we updated our development release to 0.93.3 
> I've seen in Ubuntu was one complaint about a typo in a man page.

I'm personally hoping to get a freeze exception for 0.94 :)

When etch released, I waited until the last minute to ask for a freeze
exception, and coordinated a library transition for all the packages
that link to libclamav.  vorlon (aka Steve Langasek) was very helpful in
the process and was OK with the last minute transition since I had done
the work and tested the packages.  The hope for the lenny release is
that we can do something similar.  Releasing 0.94 has the benefit that
for at least the first 6 or 8 months of lenny, security support will be
fairly easy - the 0.94 tree will stay mostly the same except for
bugfixes.  If we release with the 0.93 tree, there will be enough code
churn in the 0.94 tree that it will be difficult almost immediately.

Cheers,
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