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

[Michael Tautschnig]

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> 
> 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.
> 

As Luk is part of the clamav team now, I'd guess he can guide us through the
process of getting freeze exceptions and watch out for us not doing something
nasty that makes a freeze exception impossible...

Best,
Michael

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