Simon Hobson wrote:
Eric Rostetter wrote:
Signature updates, yes, but not code updates. To make any changes,
you need code updates, not signature updates.
Apart from 0.95.3 released about the same time the kill decision was
made - could have put a code change in there. And 0.96 which was
released a couple of weeks before the kill switch was flipped - could
have put a code change in there.
And it wouldn't have been a major hassle to release a 0.95.4 just for
this - almost certainly a lot less hassle than dealing with the
fallout generated.
Forcing an upgrade by flipping a kill switch was AN option, but it
wasn't the only one.
No one is arguing that there weren't other options. However, it was
their decision to make to move forward with incompatible signatures to
support new features. Code changes were put into 0.95.3 (and maybe
earlier in the 0.95 tree) which allows clamd to continue running with
the new signatures and just does not use them. That is not the issue,
the issue is pre 0.95 could not handle the new signatures and everyone
had 6 months do something about it.
Jim
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