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Re: conflicts-based solution (was Re: security in testing)



On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 07:12:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Take the harden package, or create something similar: a package that
> conflicts with all versions of packages with known security holes.

Why not just /fix/ the holes? Is uploading a package with a well known
patch _really_ that hard?

Cheers,
aj

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