[Pkg-clamav-devel] Clamav Package

[mail at klaipedaville.info]

Hi Gupta,

Thank you. That's why I was saying I was confused. It would be great to be able to run ClamAV 0.103.7 on Buster. It "complains" and warns you every day that the new version is available but it won't allow you to upgrade your existing 0.103.6 and install 0.103.7 from Buster packages without re-installing it all completely and building and compiling it all yourself manually.

Regards,
Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Utkarsh Gupta <guptautkarsh2102 at gmail.com>
To: Klaipedaville Mail <mail at klaipedaville.info>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian at breakpoint.cc>, debian at kitterman.com, clamav at packages.debian.org, debian-lts at lists.debian.org
Sent: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:35
Subject: Re: [Pkg-clamav-devel] Clamav Package

Hi Klaipedaville,

On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 2:22 PM Klaipedaville Mail
<mail at klaipedaville.info> wrote:
> Debian 10 (Buster) keeps on complaining that ClamAV version 0.103.6
> is outdated and I need to upgrade it to the latest one, which is ClamAV
> 0.103.7. However, it won't let me install from packages and says that
> it is up to date. When I try to install 0.103.7 on Buster anyway it it says
> that there are some new packages missing. I can of course force install
> these missing packages but the question is won't it break anything?

You cannot even "force install" when there are no 0.103.7 packages in
the buster archive in the first place. :)

Or are you considering other installation options?

> Plus, what's with the constant daily outdated message when it is up to
> date in Debian 10 (Buster)? ClamAV 7 is only for the latest version of
> Debian, which is 11. Debian 10 (Buster) has to run on ClamAV 6 only as
> far as I understand, am I wrong? But... it complains in Buster literally
> daily and "wants" ClamAV 7.. I am a bit lost. Could anyone fill me in
> a little? Appreciate.

It's a ClamAV thing where it tells its users when there's a newer
version released and available for installation. It's a non-fatal
warning.

In general, we have certain packages that we want to keep up-to-date
in LTS and ELTS releases and ClamAV being one of them. It wasn't a
pressing issue since there are no security issues in this release but
I'll look into this and prepare backports for buster, stretch, and
jessie.


- u
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