Re: security in testing
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:18:22PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> wrote:
> > I think that users would react rather negatively to having packages
> > (ones that they use) effectively disappear from their system, but the
> > only way to be certain is to experiment with the process. You can
> > easily simulate this by providing dummy packages in a private
> > repository.
>
> ... but be careful to include the conffiles of the real package in the
> dummy-packages - otherwise you'll probably break dpkg-conffile handling.
Indeed, there would be many configuration-related pitfalls in such an
approach. What if the user purges the dummy package, for example?
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- mdz
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