On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 09:50:02AM +0530, Venky wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:07:35PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
> > Yes, but again, that's where policy comes in. As the recent debian
> > problem with OpenSSL shows, just because you have a fully-repeatable
> > build recipe and source does not guarantee that a security problem
> > won't be introduced.
> 
> Perfect example, thank you!  Do you think this flaw would have been
> discovered if Debian did not have a policy of requiring source?

Actually, yes.  People certainly could (and should) have noticed the
problem without having to inspect source.

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