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Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)



* martin f krafft (madduck@debian.org) [041004 19:35]:
> also sprach Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> [2004.10.04.1917 +0200]:
> > If I'm wrong, I didn't understand the backports.org philosophy.
> 
> No, you are right.
> 
> However, my main problem with backports is that it's
> community-operated. There seems to be no quality control...

> And how easy would it be to sneak a trojan in there.

In my opinion the quality of backports.org is about the same as the
normal debian archive (and as there, only DDs may do uploads). This is
however not true for all archives providing some sort of backports.


Cheers,
Andi
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