On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 06:44:37PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 03:48:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:31:22PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > I think the final judgment in this issue is going to come down to personal > > > taste and needs more than anything else. > > That's fine for personal repositories, it's not sufficient for Debian's > > archive. > Well, I think that personal taste is sufficient for Debian's archive, and it > seems obvious that Those In The Know have decided that they prefer one taste > over another. <grin> *sigh* Do you really think that comment was helpful? > > Add a "Depends: some-random-package" that you know has a security hole > > to dpkg's entry in the Packages and it'll be automatically installed by > > apt. > You're a lot more devious than I am, AJ, as I'd never considered these > possibilities. I've had this same conversation a dozen times before... > > No, there isn't anything, apparently the mirroring to merkel got disabled > > due to the inode usage / rsync time. There's some 700k odd changes > > files. > Ouch. rsync must be *loving* those. Well, it's loving them being excluded, yeah... Developers who'd like to play with making a workable format for .changes files can play around with changes files separated by month up 'til 2005/04 by poking around in /org/ftp.debian.org/queue/done on merkel; changes up 'til August are also available unseparated, but you're better off just ignoring those for experimenting. Cheers, aj
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