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Re: trojan horse on testing?



On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 08:34:16PM +0200, tomas pospisek wrote:
> 
> Packages that have security relevant bugs in testing could be kicked
> ___immediately___ out of testing. What do people think?

That wouldn't help anything.  People would have already installed the
vulnerable package.  apt-get wouldn't remove it from their systems just
'cause it's no longer available in the archive.

The only people that would be helped by this are people who upgrade from
a safe version the package (thus, a security patched stable system, most
likely) after the vulnerability has been discovered.  That's likely to
be a very very rare case.

noah

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