Re: HAMM FREEZE (removed packages)

[Elie Rosenblum <fnord@jurai.net>]

And thus spake Brian White, on Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 02:14:24PM -0500:
> > 1: Why is this "important"? It doesn't fit any definition of important
> > that I've seen -- the package installs and works correctly.
> 
> It's important because it is extremely easy to fix.

Er...because something is easy to fix, it's judged as important?

That's not exactly the canonical meaning I've picked up over the years
for the term 'important'...

I can see calling it important because it breaks potential security
audits that may try to use the md5sum data, but not because it's an
easy thing to fix.

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     <fnord at cosanostra.net>   And with strange aeons even death may die.
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