Scott Kitterman: As I've written, honestly no offense meant. And I'm no
clamav user at all, I'm reporting just *any* issue for *any* package
that comes to my knowlegde from security mailing lists and other
sources, as available time permits. Most packages which I open bug
reports for I've never used or even installed. Since I have a very rare
amount of free time to contribute to Ubuntu, fixing packages myself is
beyond my ablilities, and this won't change soon. Since I favor
stableness and security, I try to make my little contribution with bug
reporting. I'm always learning in this process and sometimes get useful
advise how to do better, which I gladly adhere to.

I'm well aware that packages from universe aren't treated in the same
way like the officially supported ones, but I'd really like to see the
same care security-wise for universe as much as possible. Ubuntu is on
the rise, and it doesn't need bad press like in "Ubuntu is insecure
because the most part of their packages won't receive security support
after release." I would never blame anybody, but I'd like to point out
deficiencies if they occur to me, only to help to improve quality, not
to offend anyone.

I just think that a fire-and-forget-approach (means "release-and-don't
-care-anymore" - slightly exaggerated of course ;-) ) is not the right
thing regarding users (=target audience) of the stable releases. I'd
like to see LTS releases as LTS in a whole, not just for the fraction
that is supported from Canonical. Kind of a "I have a dream" thing...

So I hope I could clear up my motivation to bug reporting a bit.

And again, I didn't want to and won't willingly offend anybody. Please
take my apologies, Scott.

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[clamav] several open CVE issues
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