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Re: Handling of "malware" in Debian

From "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.security
Subject Re: Handling of "malware" in Debian
Date 2016-11-10 11:20 +0100
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On 2016-11-10 09:45, Paul Wise wrote:
> My intuition says that there are users who don't have apt-listchanges
> installed or don't read the NEWS files. The most likely place folks
> will see the notification is in the UI of the malware package itself.

This is true. OTOH, if the WOT UI is gone, users will either not
care (good) or ask themselves where it is gone and can still
check the package (good, too). It's not, that the user or root
would have to perform any action.

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Re: Handling of "malware" in Debian Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-11-09 16:00 +0100
  Re: Handling of "malware" in Debian "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2016-11-09 16:20 +0100
    Re: Handling of "malware" in Debian Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2016-11-09 17:10 +0100
      Re: Handling of "malware" in Debian "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2016-11-09 17:40 +0100
        Re: Handling of "malware" in Debian Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2016-11-09 17:50 +0100
          Re: Handling of "malware" in Debian "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2016-11-09 19:20 +0100
            Re: Handling of "malware" in Debian Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2016-11-09 19:50 +0100
              Re: Handling of "malware" in Debian "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2016-11-09 20:40 +0100
      Re: [Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Handling of "malware" in Debian Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org> - 2016-11-09 21:10 +0100
        Re: [Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Handling of "malware" in Debian "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2016-11-09 21:20 +0100
          Re: [Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Handling of "malware" in Debian Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org> - 2016-11-10 00:10 +0100
    Re: Handling of "malware" in Debian Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-11-10 02:50 +0100
      Re: Handling of "malware" in Debian "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2016-11-10 11:20 +0100
  Re: Handling of "malware" in Debian Vladislav Kurz <vladislav.kurz@webstep.net> - 2016-11-09 16:30 +0100

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