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Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps(www.gamingonlinux.com)

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AChiTenshi@sh.itjust.works
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I would imagine the recent xz backdoor discovery spooked them a bit. So now they are going to check things.

We shall see if it continues or not.

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Pantherina@feddit.de
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No. They will likely still use release tarballs

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vanderbilt@lemmy.world
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And MD5 for package integrity checking, and not using per-package PKI signatures.

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Pantherina@feddit.de
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Cough Fedora does that (using rpm-sequoia written in Rust) and also uses zst instead of xz for RPMs since Fedora 31

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