Joel C. Salomon a ?crit : > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Matthew Toseland > <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > >> > I thought that Update over Mandatory was implemented at this point, >> > negating this problem? >> >> It does if you enable the updater. But that might trip up the packaging. >> > > On Debian & Ubuntu, package installation scripts can download recent > versions of the software, so auto-update shouldn't be too much of a > problem. > > --Joel The issue here with maintainer scripts downloading the bulk of the software is that it's against Debian policy and against the purpose of packages. There are some exceptions but there are for programs that are non-free anyway : flashplugin-nonfree, java-package, vmware-package... And anyway, nobody sane would run an "aptitude upgrade" daily on cron.
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