On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 07:28:21AM +0100, John Lines wrote: > > > > > > > clamav can be as stable as a rock but be completely useless... when > > > two months after Sarge's release, a new virus hits hard, and in > > > order to detect it, clamav needs libfoo, which is not in Debian. > > > What then? *Maybe* we could push a new clamav via security.d.o, but > > > what about libfoo? > > > You could take the rather horrible step of building a static copy of libfoo > into clamav. This would be rather messy, but would allow a single binary to > be updated.
Thanks, but no thanks. What will happen when now libfoo needs a security update? -- EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FIRE soda water | tequila WATER -- with thanks to fortune