On Saturday 13 September 2014 12:14:33 Scott Kitterman did opine And Gene did reply: > On Saturday, September 13, 2014 12:07:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > > And then even more time to convince TPTB in charge of the major > > distributions, that the upgrade needs to find its way into their > > repo's. I am on an older ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS install, with enough X > > and kde to get what I want, but that also has its drawbacks as I am > > stuck with a patched up 98.1. > > > > This is also a problem that needs to be addressed in closed door > > sessions with the Ubuntu's, SuSe's and Red Hat's of the industry, > > building a fire under their packagers occasionally. Its a cost of > > doing business, although I am not 100% aware of who is paying the > > bills for this project, I read rumors that might be just that so I > > won't propagate them. > > Hello, > > I'm the primary packager for clamav on Ubuntu. Getting the current > clamav packages to work on an older system like 10.04 takes some work > that I haven't had time to do. > > I'm a volunteer developer, so your ability to find someone who will > like a fire under me is probably somewhat limited. I had planned on > working on today, but reading crap like this is totally demotivating. > I'll probably spend the time on paid work instead. > > Scott K
I can't say as I'd blame you. Paid work in this "free" software arena is king. My caterwauling about it is NOT a show stopper here because database backwards compatibility has in fact been well maintained. It appears I worded it poorly. As its been 40+years since I worked by the hour, that phrase about building a fire has become a part of the business language. My apology's. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
