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Re: dynupdater not seeming to do anything



On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 01:52:20PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> 	Hi.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 06:50:27AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

[...]

> > It seems to be from Oracle [1]. Possibly a Java abomination.
> 
> Nope. It's CPython + QT. But then again, it's totally possible to write
> in Python in such way that users will think it's written in Java :)

Thanks for actually looking it up and... for shattering my prejudices :)

> The package they provide embeds its own copy of libssl (version 1.0 with
> multiple known vulnerabilities), QT 4 (ditto), and libpython3 (version
> 3.3, ditto) [...]

... the common euphemism for that nonsense being "vendoring".


> so I would advise against using this particular utility for
> any reason.

Tha'd be my take, too.

Cheers
-- 
t

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