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Re: new maintainer verification

On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Stuart Lamble wrote:

> bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) wrote:
> >I'm worried about Trojan Horses getting into the distribution. We can't
> >prevent them 100% reliably, but we should try. With the publicity we are
> >about to get (Debian in Space), we're going to be a target.
> 
> Sad but true - there are people out there that take delight in pulling
> other people's work down for no reason, other than sheer maliciousness.
> I really hate to see this kind of thing happen, no matter who cops it -
> it's sheer wanton vandalism.

Are packages PGP signatures currently checked by dinstall? I had a look 
at the source, but couldn't find the corresponding code anywhere...

An other thing to do would be to restrict a bit more file permissions on 
master. Every debian developper have write permission in too many places 
I think. (chmod +t on some directories like Incoming, etc... could be 
safe) This would also prevent some mistakes (eg: some while ago, I 
overwrote someone else's (Joey's?) package in Incoming by uploading a 
package with the same name 10 minutes after him)

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