[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#521826: Bug#521826: Update of clamav-base removes clamav-daemon when clamav-daemon is missing.

[Stephen Gran]

close 521826
thanks
This one time, at band camp, Sebastien Bernard said:
> Using debian with sparc machine, the system proposed me to update clamav-base 
> clamav-freshclam and clamav-docs from 0.94.dfsg-2.1 to 0.95.dfsg-1.
> Unfortunately, the clamav-daemon package was missing in the archive.
> The clamav-daemon failed to build on sparc architecture.
> Nevertheless, the apt stil proposed me to upgrade the available packages and
> removes the clamav-daemon, thus, leaving the system with a broken mail system
> since the clamav daemon is used in the mail processing.
> The package souldn't be upgraded if the clamav-daemon is not available in the
> newer version.
> I had to downgrade manualy the whole package suite knowning that the next 
> apt-get upgrade
> will break the clamav again.

There's nothing much we as developers can do about a package being
transiently missing in unstable.  If missing packages are going to be a
problem for you, then the solution is simply: don't use unstable
packages.  If you need newer packages than stable, use testing or
volatile or backports.  Unstable is called unstable for a reason, and
it's got very little to do with the package.

Cheers,
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