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Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.



Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 	Not without a transition plan in the general case. And my
>  point, which you have not addressed, was that most of your examples
>  were not ones that mandated significant changes to the source or
>  behavior of programs.

> 	First, most of these alloowed people time to bring their
>  programs in line. Secondly,, no new programs were kept out of the
>  distribution by requiring an audit and a consensus on debian-devel;
>  You got the program in, and you worked on the bugs that were filed on
>  it.

So by analogy, the debian-legal list should not be able to block new
software with potentially bad licenses from entering the archive.
Instead we should have some kind of "teansition plan". Fascinating, tell
me more.

-- 
see shy jo

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