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Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)



Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:

> Of course, there are hints that there is another segfault bug out there, with
> the latest version in woody.  It's not repeatable, however.  Also, on this
> note, I stand by 1.9.18, as being one of the most safest versions of dpkg,
> with regard to buffer overruns, and the like.

That also points out that dpkg is not a good example; some packages
are sufficiently critical that conservatism in bug fixing is
important.



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