Re: EPEL clamav packages

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On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:59:39 +0200
Felix Schwarz <felix.schwarz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Am 21.04.2010 06:33, schrieb Kevin Fenzi:
> > On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:46:33 +1000
> > Dan Irwin<rummymobile@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >
> >> The clamav packages in EPEL are quite broken, and don't work out of
> >> the box. I think this has been the case for many months.
> >
> > Have you filed any bugs? Whats broken?
> 
> There are a couple of bugs:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=clamav&product=Fedora%20EPEL

Sure, there are bugs. 

> Some also have security impact. Basically the problem is that it is
> extremly hard to provide the ABI/config stability for clamav.
> Combined with a few questionable decisions when it came to packaging
> + a not-so-active maintainer and we have a basically orphaned package
> in EPEL.

Yeah. ;( I'll see what I can do. 

> I've spoken to a few Fedora packagers who where interested in
> maintaining the package. However the premise for them was that they
> can also decide how the Fedora package should look like - and at that
> time the current maintainer had strong feelings about this topic...

And still does I am sure. 

> If you could initiate a discussion on epel-devel, I can ping a few of
> the previously interested people...

Feel free to start discussion on that list. 

kevin

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