martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think the problem is not so much whether s.d.o is the right place, > but rather whether anti-virus stuff can go in there. Security fixes > are backported to ensure no new features trickle in and to minimise > changes. With AV software and the like, this may not be possible. > Who knows what kind of viruses require what kind of steps to be > taken to detect them.
Ah! See, I think you are exactly right. The issue is not whether we have a place for the thing, but rather what maintenance policies we want to impose on the thing. I can see no solution other than "do the best thing", which I admit is not of much substantive help. But I want the "best thing" to involve being as conservative as possible about changes, and I am greatly worried that part of the motivation for having a different policy is simply because it might be too much *trouble* to do backporting. Thomas
