Re: should executables be permitted to update themselves?
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 12:26:15AM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> is there a policy on whether an executable is permitted to update itself? i
> personally believe that in order to maintain the security of the system, apt
> and apt alone should be used to install software updates. recently i
> submitted a bug on azureus about how it should not urge users to install
> updates outside of apt (http://bugs.debian.org/405997), which was quickly
> closed by the maintainer.
jftr, the bug was not closed, but tagged wontfix.
Greetings
Marc
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