Re: Debian 2.2 Release.
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:51:38PM -0400, Itai Zukerman <zukerman@math-hat.com> was heard to say:
> WRT the "Origin" field, I haven't seen discussion of a reasonable way
> to verify the origin. I mean, what prevents someone from spoofing the
> origin field?
The question that immediately occurs to me is, why would someone bother, and
why should we care? The worst problem I can imagine is lots of spurious
bug reports, and we get that already with 3rd-party packages. I've even filed
some by accident :-) Besides, on average I'd expect those to /decrease/ if
an origin field is added..
Daniel
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