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Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages!

From David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages!
Date 2018-07-15 16:10 +0200
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On Sun 15 Jul 2018 at 07:49:36 (+0200), Hans wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> be warned: Wheh you do apt full-upgrade,

You're in testing: what are you "full-upgrade"-ing to and why?

> then most security tools, we rely on, 
> are deinstallesd. These are rkhunter, chrootkit, autopsy, tripwire, 
> needrestart and tiger. Also forensics-full and forensics-all are deinstalled 
> (however, this might have other reasons).
> 
> This is no good behaviour, and it looks for me like the preparation for a 
> global attack on debian. 
> 
> Maybe it is wanted by the maintainers, but to remove suddenly almost all of 
> the most effective tools looks very, very fishy to me!
> 
> Keep your eyes open, the NSA is everywhere.

Cheers,
David.

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Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2018-07-15 08:00 +0200
  Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! likcoras <likcoras@riseup.net> - 2018-07-15 14:00 +0200
  Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-15 16:10 +0200
    Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-07-15 16:30 +0200
      Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2018-07-15 17:50 +0200
        Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2018-07-15 18:10 +0200
          Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-07-15 19:10 +0200
            Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 19:30 +0200
        Re: Warning: Debian/testing full-upgrade removes security packages! John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-07-15 19:30 +0200

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