Re: Ask yourself some questions
I demand that Branden Robinson may or may not have written...
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 08:29:31PM +0100, Peter Mathiasson wrote:
>> Though "supports its use, and we provide infrastructure" does not
>> necessarily include support from our security team for instance.
> A good point.
> In some cases we simply don't have the power to be pro-active with regards
> to resolving security flaws in non-free packages, because we lack the
> source code, permission to distribute binaries based on modified source
> code, and so forth.
Yes. RC bug; package gets dropped. Problem solved :-)
(Hmm. "can't fix" tag in the BTS?)
> So that's one scenario where shipping non-free *harms* our users. Caveat
> warezor!
:-)
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