> > I've been getting those messages too for about a week.  I updated to
> > the devel version on December 26th, after staying with 0.75 for too
> > long.  I do *not* have any old copies of either libclamav or freshclam
> > anywhere; I've checked carefully with "find" and "locate".  clamscan -V
> > reports ClamAV devel-20041226/702/Wed Feb  9 06:31:34 2005
>
> You are running a copy between 80 and 81. .81 was released on Jan 26, and
> .82 on Feb 06 of this year.

Thank you to both of the people who pointed this out.

I think there may be an assumption on the part of the authors that all
the clamav users actually run the command and see the warnings.  For me
at least that is not the case, it is invoked by an SMTP filter and
I never see it, except sometimes accidentally when I'm checking
something.  The traffic on this list is way too high to read every
post (at least for someone like me who just uses the code and is
not actively tracking every minor change - something I dare not
do on a production system) and the releases that force a rebuild
are *not* clearly marked in the subject lines in this group.  I
always miss them.  That may be my failing but I bet I'm not alone.

Can I suggest a mailing list for announcements to be used for
"must do" upgrades using the stable source chain; or at a minimum
a very visible subject line to be standardised on, maybe to the
extent that I can catch it consistently with a procmail filter to
ensure it stands out.

I appreciate all the work you guys do keeping this code up to date,
but I get the impression that the majority of users are 'bleeding
edge' developers.  Please keep us plodders in mind too, where our
primary goal is stability and a lack of surprises and sudden urgent
repairs.  I've seen way too many posts of people installing new
fixes then having something break to be willing to do that.


thanks

Graham
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