Approval of clamav update plan
Scott Kitterman
ubuntu at kitterman.com
Mon Jul 6 23:05:33 BST 2009
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 14:17:22 -0700 Steve Langasek
<steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>Hi Scott,
>
>On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 01:33:11PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> At yesterday's tech board meeting, the tech board approved the clamav
update
>> plan contingent on approval by the Ubuntu security and release teams:
>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClamavUpdates
>
>> The security team has already concurred with the plan.
>
>> Please let me know if there are questions. Please cc me on any mail as I
>> am not subscribed.
>
>Looks good to me in the main.
>
>Earlier I think we discussed the number of packages needing to be rebuilt
>for each library soname change, and you mentioned that the number has been
>going down because third-party packages are increasingly moving to use the
>more stable clamav-daemon interface. Should this be documented somewhere
as
>an assumption/recommendation, in connection with this policy?
>
I don't think so. All these packages come to us from Debian so I don't
think recommending this would affect things. It has been quite some time
since we got a new libclamav rdepend, so I think that new projects have
this pretty well figured out.
Scott K
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