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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.

--
Jérôme Marant <jerome@marant.org>
              <jerome.marant@free.fr>

http://marant.org



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