[Pkg-clamav-devel] libmspack integration

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2014-07-27 15:41:34 [+0200], Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> Yes. Do you know when upstream plans to do so?

The bugzilla says that they want to evaluate it for 0.99. However I
don't know how that works because they could do a few 0.98 based
released and not look into at all for the next few months…

> >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.

That is what I assumed. My idea is currently to copy the complete
libmspack tar ball into libclamav as is and make sure clamav's configure
script configures invokes libmspack's and links against it in case the
external library isn't available.

> Best regards,
> Andreas

Sebastian