[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#577013: Should not be part of stable

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

Package: clamav
Severity: serious

Hi,
[Note; this has been discussed before, but there never was a
real conclusion, but we need to discuss/fix this for Squeeze]:

We should not include clamav in stable any longer, it really is
too volatile to end up in a stable release. #550296 (which
should be RC as well, BTW) is just the tip of the iceberg.

ClamAV maintainers already provide quick updates through volatile,
which is exactly the way clamav should be maintained. Right now
too many people keep old, buggy versions from the standard stable
which cause more harm than benefit.

There are a few rdeps of libclamav. These need to be changed to
no longer use clamav through the library interface or be moved
to volatile as well. After all, they're bound to break through
changes like #550296 as well.

Cheers,
        Moritz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-15 at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages clamav depends on:
pn  clamav-freshclam | clam <none>           (no description available)
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
pn  libclamav4              <none>           (no description available)
ii  libgmp3c2               2:4.3.2+dfsg-1   Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages clamav recommends:
ii  arj                           3.10.22-8  archiver for .arj files
pn  clamav-base                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  unzoo                         <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages clamav suggests:
pn  clamav-docs                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  lha                           <none>     (no description available)
ii  unrar                         1:3.9.9-1  Unarchiver for .rar files (non-fre