Re: SELinux on Squeeze?
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> On Freitag, 30. Dezember 2011, Russell Coker wrote:
> > I can't imagine what the benefit would be in using "official" packages
> > that I created and uploaded to Debian over using "unofficial" packages
> > that I created and couldn't get in a Squeeze update
>
> Frankly, your lack of imagination is pretty sad. The difference is that
> people cannot use squeeze properly without relying on some external
> repository.
They can if they are satisfied with the features that were in Squeeze. But we
have lots of other repositories for people who want more, for two random
examples there's debian-mm for people who want codecs that aren't in Squeeze
for legal reasons and backports.
Another feature of my repository is that I include some packages built with
features that aren't liked by the DD who maintains them. Such as ffmpeg
packages that don't need execmod permission on i386. This makes it a little
slower but means that it will be more difficult for someone to attack your
system with a hostile movie file.
There are many DDs who maintain their own repositories with more features than
is in Stable.
> Imagine if every DD would handle her packages like this.
Not everyone does it, but many do and it's better for users.
> Releases (as in Debian stable releases) would be rather useless.
No, you have the stable packages for things that you don't care much about and
use newer versions for things that are important to you.
> Maybe this can be finally fixed for wheezy?
The only way that could be "fixed" is if I was to stop development after
Wheezy is released.
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