* Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun 2008-05-04 12:47 , Tino Reichardt wrote:
* pyther <pyther@pyther.net> wrote:
* Tino Reichardt <list-arch@mcmilk.de> wrote:
Hello list,
clamav should be updated.
Why does the update of clamav take so long ?
Should I build a new package ?
Because the developers have a life, if you need a new package use abs and compile it.
If they don't have the time to be a maintainer for some package, they shouldn't be the maintainer of it!
My time is also short and thats the reason why I am no trusted user or the maintainer of packages like clamav.
Being a security update it should be somewhat "high priority", if the maintainer didn't update it yet is because he simply don't have the time to do so (and test it).
This exactly is the point! Versions before 0.92 are vulnerable, that should be fixed, as soon as possible.
Your whining is not helping anyone; bear in mind that the number of devs/TUs is limited and they have to manage a huge number of packages. If you want to help someway, you could update the package, test it and send the sources (PKGBUILD and other stuff) to the maintainer or maybe even in this mailing list.
I did not whine! I build it myself clamav by just replacing the $pkgver on my private x86_64 box. I just wanted to call some attention. But Arch Linux is known to be very up to date on nearly all packages. Why not on that security realted issue ? When clamav 0.94 is released, where should I upload the new PKGBUILD including the binaries for x86_64 and i686 ? Sorry for my english, it isn't the best :) -- regards, TR