Package Review Stats for the week ending January 18th, 2009
Horst H. von Brand
vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Thu Jan 29 22:45:35 UTC 2009
Alexander Kurtakov <akurtako at redhat.com> wrote:
> drago01 wrote:
[...]
> > Did it ever happen that a "provenpackager" or any packager in the days
> > of open ACLs cause any real damage to packages (not owned by him)?
> > I am not aware of any such cases, it seems to me that we are trying to
> > solve a non existing problem.
Perhaps the packager community has grown a lot since then?
> I'm simply trying to think of a solution for both sides -
> paranoic-about-security and believe-in-good-will.
The problem is that what you as a packager prefer does impact _all_
users. And in such a situation you should prefer to fall to the paranoic
side.
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