Re: should executables be permitted to update themselves?
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 11:23 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.
It was definitely closed:
From: "Shaun Jackman" <sjackman@gmail.com>
To: "Michael Gilbert" <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com>, 405997-done@bugs.debian.org
The maintainer's attempt to tag it wontfix doesn't appear to have
succeeded, most likely due to forgetting to CC control@
Adam
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