On Mon, 03 Aug 2015 05:53:15 +0200
Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote:

> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > * There could be some nasty issues with keeping known
> > vulnerable/broken packages around. ie, foo-1.0 has a severe
> > security bug, foo-1.1 fixes it. You now just need to trick someone
> > into downgrading or directly installing foo-1.0 (which is in normal
> > repos and signed and completely valid looking).
> 
> But there are plenty of even older packages in the GA repository,
> also signed with the same key.

Sure, but this increases the exposure.

kevin

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