scy on Nostr: Meanwhile, #Debian is considering rolling #xz back to not only before the backdoor ...
Meanwhile, #Debian is considering rolling #xz back to not only before the backdoor was added, but to the point where the person who _wrote_ the backdoor hadn't contributed any code to xz yet.
Which means considering creating patches to fix ABI breakage such a rollback would cause.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068024
For all the trash talk Debian gets for being "pedantic" and slow to change: They put in the _work_ to do things _right_. I respect that.
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Which means considering creating patches to fix ABI breakage such a rollback would cause.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1068024
For all the trash talk Debian gets for being "pedantic" and slow to change: They put in the _work_ to do things _right_. I respect that.
via https://hachyderm.io/@joeyh/112181512951127467