Re: Secure APT (was: Re: New Maintainers)
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:53:39PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:07:42PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:07:03AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > A great deal of work has been done in this area. See
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/203741 for information. It would be great
> > > if you would like to help with this.
> >
> > Has the patch been integrated into CVS? I think so (but the bug
> > report doesn't say so explicitly).
>
> No, it hasn't, because I'm trying to get a new apt into testing, and
> introducing a lot of new code like this usually doesn't help. I was
> hoping to have a new apt safely in testing by now, and to be able to
> put this into unstable and start getting testing for it, but since
> glibc and gcc-3.3 held up apt's progress into testing for so long,
> this has been problematic.
If the code is otherwise ready, you could drop it into experimental.
This is probably the best approach if you think it could be ready for
sarge.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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