[clamav-users] Debian packaging

[Matthew Newton]

Hi Andy,

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:29:28PM +0100, Andrew Kelly wrote:
> At any rate, I'm running a farm of "stable" and "old-stable"
> deployments, the dep nightmare of pulling something from testing
> isn't really going to serve my customer base very well. And
> the 20 minutes.. well, were it that painless I'm sure half a
> dozen daily readers of this list would have already back-ported 
> things months and months ago.

Yeah, we did :-p

We run Debian stable for our mail systems. I just build local
packages for the volatile stuff like ClamAV and SpamAssassin. I
guess I have to rebuild twice a year or so, and it's pretty
trivial when you've done it once - copy the debian/ directory
over, update the changelog and rebuild. There are very
occasionally a few things that need tweaking to get it to build
with the new version.

Debian's policy is to ensure that stable means stable - so they
only generally apply security patches. There was a "volatile"
repository once as they realised that software like ClamAV needs
updating more but conflicted with normal policy; it looks like
it's been replaced, but I don't know if they still maintain the
ClamAV package there.

Cheers,

Matthew


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