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Re: third-party packages adding apt sources



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On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 07:15:01PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> Another thing comes to mind: making sure that even if the user
> explicitly allows some other repository, they are protected from package
> updates that come along and replace other things like apt itself, libc,
> bash, gnupg, ...

I don't think we want to prevent that.  If they want to install a package that
does that, they can.  However, I think it is reasonable to warn them that they
should get ready for trouble when installing a package that isn't from Debian,
and especially if they install a new entry into sources.list from an external
source.

I don't see how to technically do such a thing though; the problem is that
these kind of upstreams often don't care about our (or their user's) systems
and will inject any code in their package that makes the warnings go away.

Thanks,
Bas
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