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Re: Packages removed from frozen



>>"Antti-Juhani" == Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi> writes:

 Antti-Juhani> Are you seriously saying that Debian should not
 Antti-Juhani> distribute compilers for other languages than C?  Most
 Antti-Juhani> compilers are written in the same language that they
 Antti-Juhani> target.  It is, in fact, a desirable feature of
 Antti-Juhani> compilers that they can compile themselves.

        Fine. If we do distribute them, I would like them flagged as
 potential security risks on the security FAQ, so that people can be
 aware of teh risks they run when they install a package that depends
 on a binary copy of itserlf to be compiled.

        manoj
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