[classic-discuss] clamav in 1.1 contrib

[Gerald Dachs]

> 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 don't think so.

> 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.

as I told, I didn't drop support.

> 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".

as I told, I am not in the position to tell this, I can't invite other
developers.

> 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.

Okay, I see now that at least you have interest in a new version
of clamav and maybe amavisd-new. At this time it would be really
nice to read here in the list who else is using tcs 1.1 and what
reason he has not to upgrade. Don't feel pressed, it is only out
of curiousity.

> 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.

Again, I didn't say this.

This conversation doesn't not motivate me very much, but I will
upgrade the most important packages soon. Currently the relocation
of the tinysofa servers is not finished, so I can't tell when
it will happen.

Gerald