[Pkg-clamav-devel] Adopting havp into pkg-clamav

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior sebastian at breakpoint.cc
Thu Jul 24 20:02:05 UTC 2014


On 2014-07-19 16:08:40 [-0400], Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > Thanks.  It is sometimes hard to tell when a project is abandoned vice
> > mature. When the issue came up about the libclamav initialization change in
> > 0.98.4, the havp upstream was active on the clamav list and said he'd do a
> > new release if needed.  I don't think it's dead.

Okay.

> > I decided to go ahead with this and mailed the maintainer to see if they are
> > willing to give it up.  It does not appear he's active any Debian anymore
> > so I expect either no response or agreement.
> > 
> > I think dansguardian is worth looking into as well.
> 
> The dansguardian maintainer is still very active in Debian and it also has a 
> lot of non-clamav related functionality, so I think we should leave that one 
> alone.

I wasn't suggesting that as "adopt project" but as something that may
provide same functionality :)

> I heard back from the havp maintainer and he's glad to have us take it over.
Okay.

> 
> I'll work on it next week if no one else does.  My thought is to first work  
> out the RC bugs.

I try to finish the libmspack thingy and then I will try to take look on
some bugs if don't close them all :)

> Scott K

Sebastian



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