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Re: Bits from the Testing Security team



Ian Jackson, 2007-10-17 15:00:55 +0100 :

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> And if there is no good reason to have the decompressors bound in
> then having that facility wired into the code is just extra
> complexity to no useful purpose.

I thought the ability to just copy one binary (/usr/bin/dpkg) from one
box to another and be able to use it right away was precisely the goal
of static linking in that case.

Roland.
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Roland Mas

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