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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <IsbS1-5FcQ-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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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 "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
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