Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Probably there are lots of packages reviewed by their authors
only?
Review and signing are two different processes. Every single new package
has to go through a review process as outlined in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines
Signing a package is done by a small number of people in the release
engineering team and they do that manually before pushing it into the
repositories.
Well, it looks that those "review guidelines" cover mostly
administrative/legal issues. It looks that no one cares about the source
code.
So it looks that it's quite possible to have a lot of trojan
horses/rootkits/whatever in the distribution tree.
To get rid of it, we would have to review the source code.
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