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Re: Packages removed from frozen



On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 05:45:12AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>         Fairwnough. But you realize that these packages can't be
>  audited by just looking at teh source code -- trojans may be
>  propogated unbeknownst to the developers.

This is true of every package in Debian, since all of them depend on -
either directly or indirectly - in GCC being free from a trojan.  In fact,
having several independently bootstrapped subsystems in Debian reduces
the risk of having such a trojan infecting the whole of Debian.

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