Re: Further meandering thoughts on Debian Desktop
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:46:46PM -0400, Phillip Hofmeister <plhofmei@zionlth.org> was heard to say:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 at 02:13:35PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > 1. Red Hat, Mandrake, Lycoris, and SuSE have all tried to come up with a
> > > really easy way to install security updates, and bugfixes. They have all
> > > come close, but haven't yet succeeded. Debian can succeed where they have
> > > failed. (And where Mac OS 9.x has succeeded quite well.)
> >
> > We also need secure security updates. That's been on the todo list for
> > a long time.
>
> Once again, that would involve every package being signed (which is not
> currently being done).
..or signed Release/Packages files, see the thousand-and-one discussions
on the topic.
Daniel
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