On 2020-06-28 09:34, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Steve Dougherty <st...@asksteved.com> writes: > >> I can't speak for Arne but as far as I'm aware the things I mentioned >> in my quoted message still apply: we'd need to write a way for the >> package to update itself over Freenet. > > While I think that this would be ideal, I also think that most users do > not need update over Freenet, since it only gives them a privacy > advantage, when they run full darknet. > > The Gentoo package for example does not update over Freenet. > > The distributions usually do their own quality control and update with a > delay, and while that makes measuring the update-process a bit harder, > it would also give some additional security against a Freenet release > manager going rogue. > > Best wishes, > Arne
BTW there was a discussion about including it to Debian before: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481163
