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Re: Rebuilding packages on *all* architectures



I want to add another point to this discussion. While we cannot
prevent malicious maintainers from installing to the archives or
poisoning the buildds, requiring all binaries to be remade on the
buildds would rule out the possibility that an trojaned maintainer's
machine would cause infected software to be distributed in the
archives.

Security it not absolute. But requiring all architectures to be
rebuilt does add a significant amount of security, IMHO.

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