On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:57:32PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-19 09:26]: > > It wasn't intended as a suggestion; the key point was: > > > > jgg: > > > Deliberate, redirects are not guarenteed to give the same file that was > > > requests (see for instance mod speeling) > > > > i.e., it is intentional that this is not currently implemented. > > Weren't there also security concerns? (Must have been a different > bug).
I can't think of any; for the most part, anyone who is in a position to respond with a redirect could also respond with a modified file, etc. In apt 0.6, signatures and md5sums are checked all the way down anyway, of course. -- - mdz
