[Xapian-discuss] Xapian Debian/Ubuntu repositiories does not work (APT does not handle redirects!)

[Jesper Krogh]

Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> On 2008-02-15 16:22:44 +0000, James Aylett wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:30:43AM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
>>
>>> This is the second problem which this new redirect has caused, and
>>> expecting everyone to update their sources.list is rather an imposition,
>>> so I think we should probably remove it (for now at least) and return to
>>> www.xapian.org working as it used to.
>> Changed, very grudgingly. apt can't handle redirects? Jesus, we'll be
>> finding it can't handle dependencies properly next. Oh wait, that's
>> already true.
> 
> we just had the same problem with apt4rpm. the official answer was that
> an admin could redirect users to malicious servers if apt would support
> redirects. what a false sense of security.

Thats a downright bogus argument..  the archive should be properly 
digitally signed to provide the real security.

-- 
Jesper