[Pkg-clamav-devel] recent builds broke Ubuntu compatibility

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:31:49 +0200 Florian Effenberger <floeff at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've been running Ubuntu 8.04 for quite a while using Debian
>volatile's ClamAV packages. Up to now that worked fine, but it seems
>that after the recent update, some dependencies are broken:
>
>The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  clamav-daemon: Depends: clamav-base (=
>0.94.dfsg.2-1ubuntu0.3~hardy2) but 0.95.1+dfsg-0volatile1 is to be
>installed
>E: Broken packages
>
>Anyone knows how to solve this?

Debian Stable is now Lenny.  Clamav packages built for Lenny won't work on Hardy.  We (the 
Ubuntu part of this team) provide current clamav packages for each supported Ubuntu release in 
the ubuntu-clamav PPA on Launchpad.

While it may generally work to use Debian built packages on Ubuntu, there 
is no attempt to retain binary compatibility between Debian and Ubuntu.  
Since there is an Ubuntu specific package available the is explicitly 
designed for Hardy's package configuration, my suggestion is use that.

Scott K