[Fedora-packaging] DRAFT: SourceURL addition/clarification - Git Hosting Services

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Sat Jun 27 14:40:23 UTC 2015


On Jun 26, 2015 9:30 PM, "Kevin Fenzi" <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:

> In the final case, if the checksum differed it meant that the
> maintainer made a mistake uploading or upstream changed the same
> release after it was released.

Or somewhere between upstream and us the tarball was modified (someone
hacked github, someone gained commit to upstream and then tried top cover
their tracks, a malicious package maintainer on our side, etc)  This is the
case that we definitely want to raise warning flags about.

-Toshio
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