[clamav-users] Future support of clamav in EPEL7 and EPEL8

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 2023-02-18 15:40:55, Orion Poplawski via clamav-users wrote:
> 
> This email is to start a discussion of what will happen with clamav 
> support in EPEL7 and EPEL8.  In particular, to inform everyone that it 
> will be impossible to build clamav 1.X in EPEL7 and EPEL8 due to lack of 
> rust support.  Fedora packaging policies prohibit the downloading of 
> files from the internet during builds, and the rust/rpm versions in 
> EL7/EL8 are too old to support the current Fedora rust ecosystem.

I'll be backporting security fixes for as long as that's less work
than removing clamav from our mail system (or until newer signatures
are incompatible with the old engine). Feel free to watch the Gentoo
tree and steal our patches.