> > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:28:20AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > > We don't provide security support for non-free, to my knowledge.
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:52:47AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > Not at the level of main. On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:37:28AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > At what level *do* we provide it? At the level of non-free, duh. Or: if I understood the problem you were trying to solve, I could probably give you a more pertinent answer. > > However, we can be fairly confident that a DD won't introduce a > > deliberate security flaw into non-free. > > How much does that really buy us? Isn't that kind of a cold comfort? Us as developers? Or us as users? For contrast, I can go out to apt-get.org, poke around at the resulting archives, and find a guy who has a "warez" directory sitting beside his debian stuff. I don't *know* that he is doing anything unethical, but I'm just a touch uneasy about installing anything I download from his site. > It didn't take the introduction of deliberate security flaw into main to > disrupt this entire project[1], resulting in a loss of services to the > developers that still hasn't been completely rectified, and probably > won't be[2]. Yeah, things could be worse. > You can perhaps be forgiving for not noticing this event, given the > extent of your level of participation in the Project[3]. Um... I've been hit by that outage too. And I am reasonbly certain you know that because you posted a reply to my message which mentioned that. However, I suppose you're not engaging in ad hominem because technically you didn't present a logical argument. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
