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  • Gecko@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlWhy does nobody maintain PPAs anymore?
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    7 months ago

    Jia Tan liked your comment

    Without the traditional distribution workflow […]

    You are aware that the xz exploit made it into Debian Testing and Fedora 40 despite the traditional distribution workflows? Distro maintainers are not a silver bullet when it comes to security. They have to watch hundreds to thousands of packages so having them do security checks for each package is simply not feasible.