Re: Should package removal requests be signed?
En réponse à Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@attbi.com>:
> On Wednesday 23 October 2002 15:15, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was browsing ftp.debian.org bugs about package removal
> > requests and I noticed that most of them are unsigned.
> > Aren't there security issues? What prevents anyone to
> > use the email adress of any developers to ask for the
> > removal of packages?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> What happens if the packaged gets removed? It will get added back in
> tomorrow. Plus the removal is handled by a human who presumably checks
> that
> at least nothing is broken by the removal.
It is just an annoyence, of course. It is fixable.
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Jérôme Marant <jerome@marant.org>
<jerome.marant@free.fr>
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