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

[James Aylett]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 08:30:51AM +0100, Jesper Krogh wrote:

> > 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.

These days with Debian it is I believe. But if that's their attitude,
there's not really much we can do about it, sigh :-/

J

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