Re: Security lessons from liblzma

On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 07:54:00PM -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
> Virtually every RPM source, including ours, contains out of tree patches
> that get applied on top of the release tarball. At least for the PGDG
> packages, it would be nice to integrate them into our git repo as build
> options or whatever so that the packages could be built without any patches
> applied to it. Add a tarball that is signed and traceable back to the git
> tag, and we would be in a much better place than we are now.

How would someone access the out-of-tree patches?  I think Debian
includes the patches in its source tarball.

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