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vlovich123today at 4:55 AM2 repliesview on HN

This literal example is actually addressed by the Debian example - the security team has powers to shuttle critical CVEs through but it’s a manual review process.

There’s a bunch of other improvements they call out like automated scanners before distribution and exactly what changed between two distributed versions.

The only oversight I think in the proposal is staggered distributions so that projects declare a UUID and the distribution queue progressively makes it available rather than all or nothing


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calpatersontoday at 5:19 AM

> The only oversight I think in the proposal is staggered distributions so that projects declare a UUID and the distribution queue progressively makes it available rather than all or nothing

That is indeed an oversight - I wish I had thought of that idea!

LtWorftoday at 12:57 PM

But the whole point of using pypi and npm is because distributions are a thing that only old graybeard boomers use.