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Re: traceroute root exploit



On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 02:29:17PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> > Proposed-updates should under no circumstances be added to apt by
> > default - it contains packages that have not received the amount of
> > testing appropriate for stable.  That's why we do point releases.
> 
> Er, if nobody adds it then who is going to test it?

I'm not saying no one should add it.  I'm saying that a default install
should not add it - if it did, it wouldn't be being tested, it would be
effectively released :)

Dan

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|   Debian GNU/Linux Developer    __    Carnegie Mellon University   |
|         dan@debian.org         |  |       dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu      |
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