Bug#1094998: steam-devices: should document the security trade-offs implied by installing this package

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Mon Feb 3 10:59:27 GMT 2025


> What I want to avoid is adding a Recommends (or possibly Suggests) to
> SDL as you suggested, and then finding that a year or two later I'm 
> being
> required to spend large amounts of high-priority time on dealing with
> someone reporting this as a security vulnerability, and demanding my
> immediate attention and/or resignation.

Sure, I fully understand that.

But it would still help to mention in the package description the names 
of the two most prominent game controllers that this packages adds 
support for. This would have saved me a lot of googling (and rejecting a 
lot of ill-sounding and outdated advice on this way), just to end up 
with the exact same conclusion: install the steam-devices package.

Thanks!

  - Fabian



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