[clamav-users] Error 429 when updating database

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

>>>>On 08.04.21 16:23, Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users wrote:
>>>>Upgrade to 103.2.  The FreshClam there is much better and will resolve the issues.

>>>On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 16:44:46 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>>>I don't think this is easily doable for devuan ascii.
>>>(not much people want to backport manually)

>On Sat, 10 Apr 2021, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
>>I have backported software many times. It usually needs much time,

needs or doesn't need?

>>though in concrete case I suppose not so much because you can install
>>dependencies with 'apt-get build-deps clamav'. Furthermore, then you
>>have to update it manually. On the other hand, I'm sure the packages
>>will be updated in Devuan, just with a relatively long delay. It's
>>always so with Debian clamav packages.

On 10.04.21 09:35, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote:
>Your choice.  I prefer (1) to be responsible for my own security, and
>(2) to be considerate to people who provide me with a service for free
>and also free advice about how cause the least trouble for them.  I'm
>running 0.103.2 on Debian Buster which was no trouble at all to build.
>
>Debian Buster was released nearly two years ago; Devuan Ascii is based
>on Debian Stretch, which was released two years earlier.  I can't see
>that it makes sense deliberately to throw away two years' development
>plus security fixes but I understand what drove the Devuan distraction
>and briefly flirted with it myself.  The experience did not prove to
>be so refreshing as I had hoped.

luckily debian people tend to update clamav quite soon, compared to common
packages.  However, functionality and backwards compatibility is the key
here, not just having current SW version.

There's already a bug filled:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=986622

it could help if we provided proper reason to upgrade tho.


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