On Thursday 17 February 2005 09:37 am, Michael Vogt wrote: > So IMO if apt-0.6 enters sarge we should try to update aptitude as > well Note that it's probably better to patch sarge's aptitude to support authentication; because I thought that authentication wasn't going into sarge, the experimental version of aptitude contains a number of major unrelated changes (such as being ported to a newer version of the signalling library). Unless this is a free-for-all featurefest of course, which I don't think it is :P You might want to generate some guidelines on how frontends should handle package checking -- I originally tried to only warn the user when they first installed an insecure package, but it's not clear that this can actually be done securely with apt 0.6. Daniel -- /------------------- Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> ------------------\ | "He is so predictable, we could emulate | | him with a two-state Turing Machine." | \--------------------- A duck! -- http://www.python.org --------------------/
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