[clamav-users] Long Term Support (LTS) program proposal

[Paul Kosinski]

On Sat, 31 Jul 2021 20:32:23 +0200
Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:

> can't count on Debian?

They are very conservative, which is usually nice. But for security software, not so nice.

The current "stable" Debian is 10/Buster. It has ClamAV 0.103.2, patched by Debian to "deb10u1" (whatever that implies). Since it's not based directly on 0.103.3, I'd have to analyze it, and that would be more trouble than just building from source.

And, according to Debian (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/clamav), 0.103.3 is now "unstable", and thus may need special action to be added to Debian 11/Bullseye before its Aug 14 release. (Bullseye is in "full freeze" according to https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/07/msg00002.html.)