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#21
Originally Posted by Matan View Post
Do you want me to upload a package with rm -rf / in postinst?

It is so obvious that installing a package might damage your filesystem. But this is true regardless of the package coming from a repository or from your local file system. The decision to only allow packages from repositories does nothing for security.
The security is only as good as the testing. Your root-formatting package would not last a day in -testing. That's the whole point; thank you for making it.
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Classic example of arbitrary Nokia decision making. Couldn't just fallback to the no brainer of tagging with lat/lon if network isn't accessible, could you Nokia?
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