hello, is there a policy on whether an executable is permitted to update itself? i personally believe that in order to maintain the security of the system, apt and apt alone should be used to install software updates. recently i submitted a bug on azureus about how it should not urge users to install updates outside of apt (http://bugs.debian.org/405997), which was quickly closed by the maintainer. his reasoning was that users should be given the choice of using apt or the built-in updater. was this bug handled correctly?
thank you for any thoughts. mike
