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

[Arjen de Korte]

Citeren Paul Kosinski via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>:

> 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.

For openSUSE Leap, the latest version of ClamAV is usually available  
within days of a new release through  
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/security/clamav or in openSUSE  
Tumbleweed (if you're using the rolling release version). Version  
0.104.0 will also be available through that channel, as the conversion  
to cmake build is already done. If you're feeling adventurous, I have  
it available in my personal build directory in the openSUSE Build  
Service (OBS) (Tumbleweed only).

> 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.)
>
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