• Lung
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    2 years ago

    Very generous to imagine that maintainers have so much time on their hands

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      Bug fixes can be delayed for a security sweep. One of the quicker ways that come to mind is checking the hash between built from source and the tarball

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        The whole point here is that the build process was infiltrated - so you’d have to remake the build system yourself to compare, and that’s not a task that can be automated