[clamav-users] Daily 23161 broke Clam

[Reindl Harald]

Am 04.03.2017 um 23:12 schrieb Leonardo Rodrigues:
>
>     is clamav a redhat product ?!?! I don't think so. That being said, i
> see absolutely no point at all on saying clamav should do this because
> redhat does that.
>
>     Anyone wishing to be updated with a 10+ years rhel install, should
> call redhat for that :)
>
>     my 0.02 cents ...

the question is "does clamav want to stay relevant or not" aka be in in 
the most of relevant repo (EPEL) and since it's not in the RH/CentOS 
main repo it's for sure nothing Redhat itself bothers with

> Em 04/03/17 12:32, Ned Slider escreveu:
>>
>> Red Hat typically now supports each release of RHEL for at least a
>> decade, and that's not including any additional extended support
>> periods one may purchase from Red Hat in addition to the standard
>> production lifespan, so in a Red Hat world, I would say a decade is
>> the *minimum* period one should support dependent libs if you want
>> your software used on that platform.
>>
>> RHEL5 may reach end of production on 31 March 2017 but extended
>> life-cycle support continues until 30 Nov 2020, so preferably support
>> for pcre-6 should continue until then.
>>
>> https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Life_Cycle_Dates
>>
>> A huge number of mail admins want to install a RH mail server and
>> forget about it for 10+ years knowing it is supported and will just
>> work, and that things aren't going to continually break with each and
>> every update. I'm currently in the process of installing a new mail
>> server to replace a RHEL5 server, initially set up in 2007, and only
>> because RHEL5 is EOL. The same hardware (touch wood) is still going
>> strong and hasn't missed a beat in 10 years. If I could afford the
>> extended support from RH I'd probably let it run for another 3 years.
>>
>> So your opinion on this will be influenced by your perspective. I
>> would argue that RHEL has a large enough installed userbase to warrant
>> supporting it for at least it's 10 year production life-cycle.