[Pkg-clamav-devel] libmspack integration

[Scott Kitterman]

On Sunday, July 27, 2014 15:41:34 Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> On 27.07.2014 15:29, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > * Andreas Cadhalpun | 2014-07-26 22:03:42 [+0200]:
> >> Thanks, it compiled now. (We shouldn't forget to add libmspack-dev to
> >> debian/control.)
> > 
> > Right, once upstreams takes it :)
> 
> Yes. Do you know when upstream plans to do so?
> 
> > One thing that I am not certain about is wheezy in this regard because
> > the library isn't part of it. So I am not sure if security + release are
> > in favour of us using an internal copy of the library (again) and having
> > it fixed for Jessi or they would prefer to push this library into
> > Wheezy.
> 
> I think they wouldn't mind the internal copy in wheezy, as that's how it
> is already. But we could ask them, once upstream has included your patch.
> 
> Ideally configure would detect automatically if the external libmspack
> is present and only use the internal copy if it is not.

As long as we don't use additional internal copies for Wheezy, it's fine to 
continue using ones like this where the existing package has the copy.  This 
should be no problem.  I doubt they would want to add a new package to Wheezy.

Scott K