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Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed

From Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.devel
Subject Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed
Date 2024-04-12 01:20 +0200
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 01:27:54PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2024-04-11T15:37:46+0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 10:26:55AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > > Or, because some upstream maintainers have learned through, long,
> > > bitter experience that newer versions of autoconf tools may result
> > > in the generated configure script to be busted (sometimmes subtly),
> > > and so distrust relying on blind autoreconf always working.
> > 
> > When was the last time this actually happened to you?  I certainly
> > remember it being a problem in the early 2.5x days, but it's been well
> > over a decade since this actually bit me.
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> A darkly amusing story of this frustration can be found under "Why
> patch?" at <https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/autoconf.html>.

I mean, sure - as I said, I recall there being problems in the early
2.5x days - but I will note that the newest release mentioned there was
over two decades ago.  I'm not really interested in relitigating things
from that long ago at this point.

-- 
Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org]

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Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2024-04-06 09:50 +0200
  Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2024-04-06 09:50 +0200
  Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed kpcyrd <kpcyrd@archlinux.org> - 2024-04-06 09:51 +0200
    Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2024-04-06 09:51 +0200
      Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed kpcyrd <kpcyrd@archlinux.org> - 2024-04-06 09:51 +0200
        Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2024-04-06 09:52 +0200
      Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org> - 2024-04-06 09:52 +0200
      Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-04-06 13:20 +0200
        Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2024-04-06 14:10 +0200
          Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed kpcyrd <kpcyrd@archlinux.org> - 2024-04-06 16:20 +0200
            Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2024-04-06 17:00 +0200
            Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2024-04-06 17:40 +0200
              Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> - 2024-04-06 18:00 +0200
              Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2024-04-11 17:00 +0200
              Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> - 2024-04-11 20:30 +0200
                Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> - 2024-04-12 01:20 +0200
              Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2024-04-11 16:30 +0200
                Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> - 2024-04-11 16:40 +0200
          Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-04-07 09:50 +0200
        Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2024-04-06 14:30 +0200
          Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-04-07 09:50 +0200

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