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Signed packages?

Posted Nov 9, 2003 6:43 UTC (Sun) by EricBackus (guest, #2816)
In reply to: Signed packages? by liamh
Parent article: Time to move from Red Hat to Debian?

> Almost all packages are signed, though apparently
> policy doesn't require it yet. Check with debsums.

OK, good. So I assume that apt-get automatically rejects (or at least *can* reject)
packages that aren't signed by somebody it recognises as legitimate?

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