On Sun, 11 May 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > Lars Wirzenius: > > They might not understand enough about shell scripts (or Perl, or > > whatever the script is written in) and whatever tools the script uses > > to make an informed decision of whether the script is safe. With the > > current scheme, they only have to trust gzip, tar, patch, and chmod, > > And all of debian/rules. And debmake or anoy other programs called by it. > They are planning on building this package, right?
IMHO this is where we ought to be looking to improve our source packaging system. At least we should allow building as a non-root user as soon as possible (using the new GNU tar). -- Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available on keyservers) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
