On 3/31/24 2:12 PM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
But the fact is:
What WOULD have stopped this attack: (one or more of:)
* Deleting ALL unit tests in %prep (and then of course not trying to run
them later).
While it’s technically correct that deleting tests would have disrupted
this specific attack, a policy of deleting and and never running
upstream test code would have prevented me from finding and helping
upstreams fix dozens and dozens of bugs due to accidentally faulty
assumptions that turned out to be violated on different architectures,
in different system environments, or with various allegedly-compatible
dependency versions. There are even GCC bugs (miscompilations, not only
failures to compile) that were discovered and fixed only because
packages I maintain were running upstream unit and integration tests.
Frankly, “testing the packages we ship, as built in our distribution, is
actually bad” seems like a pretty strange and extreme conclusion to draw
from all of this.
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