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Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion



Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > dpkg that it is downgrading the package, and a clever attacker might
> > avoid even that.
> 
> How would you avoid it?

Make the replacement package really be a different package entirely, of
a higher version than the package it purports to replace.

I think aj had some more examples along these lines the last time this
came up.

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