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Re: Bug#824057: ITP: bitkeeper -- source code management system



On Wed, 2016-05-11 at 13:55 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Daniel Stender <stender@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Distributed source control management/revision control system. Known as
> > being used for the Linux kernel development before Git was created.  The
> > now have put the code under the Apache-2.0 license. Maybe some would
> > like to use this, so it would do no harm to have it as a Debian package.
> FWIW, there was a fairly entertaining exchange on oss-security earlier
> this week in which someone pointed out it was riddled with /tmp
> vulnerabilities found with a simple grep, and the author said that no one
> had cared because it was only deployed behind firewalls.

That's a stunningly blasé attitude to security at this point in time.

I really don't think we need more known-vulnerable software in the
archive.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.

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