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Re: New stable version after Sarge



On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:31:06 +0100, Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>
wrote:
>You wrote:
>> ahh .. I take your point. What about the idea of identifying a list of
>> release essential (RE) packages?
>
>I like that idea.  We could even have a system to automagically throw
>buggy non-RE packages out of testing.

That would leave testing users who happen to have such a package
installed alone because they wouldn't notice their package vanishing
from the mirrors, continuing to use a potentially vulnerable package.

Greetings
Marc

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