Re: Requirements of the tool (dpkg) support for signed packages

[Eray Ozkural <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>]

Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 03:46:26AM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> >
> >  Which are the requirements for package signing?
> >
> >  I have some ideas, I hope you find them useful, at least for starting a
> > discussion...:
> 
> Check the dpkg CVS and search for my branch. It already handles all of
> this, and the generated packages are backward compatibible.
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Did you spell it like this on purpose? So "compatibible" means interoperability
with the original version at the cost of extra baggage!

cu,

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