[DC LoCo] Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04
Mackenzie Morgan
macoafi at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 17:07:10 BST 2010
On Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:00:41 am Daniel Chen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > And *this* is why you don't get debs from non-repos
>
> Further, adding PPAs increases the attack surface non-trivially,
> because we don't ship a default pin-priority configuration that sets
> everything in the one officially blessed Ubuntu pool to be the "good"
> ones. A simple monotonically-increasing version scheme wins, so
> something like the recently-fixed base-files in lucid could be
> leveraged for evil. :-(
Showing the motu/core-dev icons on the top of the PPA page if its owned by
someone in one of those groups would be a nice thing too, since well...if
you're *already* trusting them to upload stuff to the archive...
--
Mackenzie
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