Recommending people Snap things in response to valid packaging problems (WAS: Re: need help resolving python-setuptools backport fail)
Oliver Grawert
ogra at ubuntu.com
Fri Dec 8 11:03:20 UTC 2017
hi,
Am Freitag, den 08.12.2017, 11:50 +0100 schrieb Oliver Grawert:
> the alternative to that store would be a PPA where you put your trust
> into random people you dont know and potentially get untested changes
> to your underlying system by some dependencies they provide.
this pargraph came out a little softer than it should be actually ...
with "trust" above i mean indeed "ultimate trust" ... 100% full root
access to all of your OS.
debhelper runs as root and so do all preinst/postinst maintainer
scripts of any deb you install.
ciao
oli
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