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Re: Bug#405997: should executables be permitted to update themselves?



Shaun Jackman writes ("Re: Bug#405997: should executables be permitted to update themselves?"):
> It is only possible for the user to download the upstream jar and run
> 'java azureus.jar' at the command line if he or she is technically
> capable of it. Presenting a technically-more-difficult `alternative'
> is no alternative at all. Ditto for the apt-pinning suggestion.

Debian users who aren't competent to do that kind of thing should take
the default supplied by Debian, and our version of the software should
not suggest otherwise.

Ian.



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