Assurance of repositories

[Avi]

Verde Denim wrote:

> The big question - how can we know that repository addition requests
> are not wolves-in-waiting?

Well, the same way as you do with any other source of software. Some
mix of the reputation of whoever is publishing it, accounts from people
using it and whatever testing you yourself can do. 

What's wrong with the flashplugin-installer package in the standard
repos?

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Avi