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Re: conflicts-based solution (was Re: security in testing)



On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:09:48AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:13:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 07:12:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Take the harden package, or create something similar: a package that
> > > conflicts with all versions of packages with known security holes.
> > Why not just /fix/ the holes? Is uploading a package with a well known
> > patch _really_ that hard?
> The fact is, we don't have a security architecture, or even autobuilders
> for testing, 

Uh, actually, we have both these things. We've had them for almost a year
now, although they haven't been used.

Cheers,
aj

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