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mrbn100ful • today at 3:44 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

>A small amount of essential software is pinned to the last version which is not tainted. We pin software as a last resort, preferring to find alternatives or move the package into the tainted repository. The current list of pinned software in “base” and “main” is:

>binutils gcc gdb libffi perl xorriso

Good luck replacing those ...


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yjftsjthsd-h • today at 7:05 PM

Well, several of those have reasonable alternatives (e.g. clang). They're just, you know, probably also using AI