Re: Pondering security update time frames

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On Monday, October 31, 2016 1:45:22 PM CET Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 10/26/2016 02:45 PM, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 1:33:34 PM CEST Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> Debian does not build from SCM, but directly from maintainer-uploaded
> >> source packages, so there is no need to have a private SCM.
> >
> > Do we have a good marketing for the fact that we are that "superior"
> > compared to Debian then?  Sounds like a main thing for for distro comparison
> > article:  It sounds like this is much, *much* more difficult to get malicious
> > software into distribution (without noticing) for Fedora packager than for
> > Debian packager, right?
> 
> You need people to actually look at stuff that's being uploaded.  I 
> don't think there is a key difference between Fedora and Debian as far 
> as this aspect is concerned.  D
> 
> In addition, Koji likely allows you to create tagged builds which came 
> from SRPMs, so I don't think there is an actually difference here in 
> terms of attack surface (at least not in Fedora's favor).

Do you mean that this is allowed by policy or that this is "implemented"?

Pavel
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