[classic-discuss] clamav in 1.1 contrib

[Mikael Bak]

On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 12:06, Gerald Dachs wrote:
> >
> > Gerald,
> > Thanks for the quick answer.
> >
> > Since classic 1.1 is advertised to be supported until the end of this
> > year, I suggest that you next time assign someone else to pick up the
> > support for such important package. Dropping support silently may be
> > frustrating for some users depending on its functionality.
> 
> Nobody told that classic 1.1 is not supported anymore. Contrib is another
> thing and even here I didn't tell that it is not supported.
> 
> I am not in the position to assign somebody else to any tasks.
> 
> You talk about frustration, what about my frustration to keep up a
> big amount of contrib rpms for tcs and get only feedback if somebody
> don't like what I am doing. Most of the time it looks like I am doing
> it for my own (and for Jaakko). Remember please that I get not paid or
> honored for this work, so I took the freedom to work mainly for the
> version of tcs I use.
> 

Gerald,
You must have completely missed my point.

I did not in any way say that it was _bad_ from you to drop support for
a package in contrib. The bad thing is not telling anybody about it.

By assigning I ment: "Hey list! I'm not going to be able to support
contrib packages for v1.1 anymore. If anyone's intrested in maintaining
them, please tell me". 

When I said support for v1.1 of classic is ending by the end of the year
I was referring to an email Jaakko sent to the list a while ago. I know
that that does not have anything to do with contrib (officially). But
many of us rely on contrib packages in order to have a the functionality
we want. And let's face it: running a mail server today without clamav
or similar is not a very good idea.

Lastly, I wasn't complaining about "bad support" from you. I know
nobody's getting paid for this. I was just asking for communication and
cooperation in order to avoid misunderstandings and broken / not very
safe servers out there. Telling us on the list that contrib packages
aren't going to be updated isn't very much asked, I think.

Kind regards,
Mikael