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Re: Intent to package: eggdrop



On 17 Nov 1997, James Troup wrote:

> There are no pre-compiled binaries available on the official ftp
> sites for a good reason.

It seems the reason given in the documentation is that you can't be
certain a binary doesn't have backdoors added. 

"Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes:

Jason> Yeah, I'd place packaging bots right up with packaging things
Jason> like TearDrop, WinNuke (that nice OOB SMB one), ping'o'death
Jason> and so on.

Don't give me any ideas -- such a util package might have its uses,
especially since the latest debian is immune....   :-)
 
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