[Pkg-clamav-devel] Release plans?

[Michael Tautschnig]

> This one time, at band camp, Michael Tautschnig said:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Does anybody have the one and only idea on how to commence with the
> > gmp-licensing issue? Should we try to backport upstream's patch as is (that is,
> > with the included source) and try to hammer it into lenny, or should we hope for
> > the release team to allow this RC bug to stay in there for the release and
> > prepare a patched version for lenny r1, or should we fully ignore it for lenny
> > and wait for 0.95 to be released?
> 
> I'm keeping my head down and hoping it gets a lenny-ignore, frankly.
> It's come a bit late in the release cycle to try to do anything
> disruptive.
> 

Ok :-)

> > If there is a preference for the backport-version, I'd offer to try to do it
> > over the weekend, but then again we need to think about going for a version that
> > links against an external libTomMath.
> 
> I'm hoping to start going through upstream svn and provide a patch to
> get it to link against a system libtommath (I'm aiming to do something
> like the common --use-system-libtool switch lots of configures have,
> if possible).  Help (especially testing) would be appreciated - it's
> been a little while since I did any serious autoconf hacking, and it's
> easy to get half right, so it works fine on my machine and completely
> breaks on the HPUX 2.3 running on someone's toaster.
> 

I'd be happy to help out with the autoconf stuff, at least I've been doing that
stuff quite frequently in recent times.

Best,
Michael

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