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

[Paul Kosinski]

LTS sounds like a great idea!

Recently, the bandwidth hogging episodes have resulted in rapid changes to ClamAV versions, followed by EOL of versions that many people (not including me) were still using. So recently I have had to spend far more time on updating ClamAV than updating anything else I use. And since I can't count on Debian (or even update-happy OpenSUSE) keeping up with these (now rapid) changes, I have always built ClamAV from source, ever since I started using it 16+ years ago. 

Thus, an LTS ClamAV which allowed me to build from source only a couple of times per year would be much appreciated. And I hope that CMAKE building can be sorted out before the next Update Now! emergency. 

(I don't see exactly how a LTS would have helped with the bandwidth issue, but I suppose it wouldn't have made it any more disruptive.)