Bug#1027463: transition: clamav

[Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

Hi Scott

On 2022-12-31 19:29:53 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-clamav-devel.alioth-lists.debian.net
> 
> As discussed in a separate email to the release team list yesterday, we,
> unfortunately have a need to do a late clamav transition.
> 
> The clamav project now maintains specified releases with long term
> support.  Currently we have 0.103 in stable/testing/unstable.  We should
> be able to maintain clamav for the expected life of bullseye with 0.103.
> 
> For bookworm we will need to transition to clamav 1.0/libclamav11 at
> some point and we believe it's better to do it now that during the
> freeze or even potentially after release.  The move from 0.103 to 1.0 is
> more complicated that usual due to upstream switching from autorools to
> CMake and the introduction of Rust code into libclamav.
> 
> The package is availalbe in experimental, but still needs some cleanup
> before it's ready for release.  We will be working on this over then
> next couple of days and anticipate being ready for the transition
> mid-week.
> 
> There are three reverse build-depends for libclamav-dev:
> 
> * c-icap-modules
> * cyrus-imapd
> * pg-snakeoil
> 
> I've test built all three with the clamav 1.0 packages in experimental
> with no issue.
> 
> Additionally, there is libclamunrar in non-free that will also need to
> be updated.  The clamav team will address that after the transition is
> done.

Please go ahead.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher