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Re: Lost Trust



Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 04:32:45PM -0600, Lucas Albers wrote:
>> 
>> Matthew Palmer said:
>> > On a machine 500 miles away for which you apparently have no other means
>> > of
>> > control?  Very, very daring.
>> 
>> Oooh, the test machine is 3 feet from my desk.
>> I kick it everytime I get a snackie.
>> I'm saying hypothetically.
>
> You're cheating.
>
> If you run a machine in some far away data center, you're an idiot if
> you do that with a development version of the OS.
>
> If you run Debian stable, you will not see this kind of stuff.
>
> So, you hypothetical situation is irrelevant.

Stuff can definitely be removed from stable for being non-free, even if
it breaks stuff.  For example, see aspell in woody.

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