On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 04:04:50PM -0500, Ty Young wrote:
> Anyway, I'm just asking that Fedora not repeat what Debian did. While 
> I find it to be a bit paranoid, I understand the concerns regarding 
> someone sneaking in malware into pre-build binaries. I'm just asking 
> Fedora not package the software at all in that case, or any software 
> that depends on that software if possible. People who want to support 
> Linux by writing software shouldn't be bothered with bug reports from 
> issues they never created to begin with.

"Fedora" doesn't package software; individuals do.  Those individuals 
are free to package whatever they like, and Fedora will distribute those 
packages if they meet the well-established packaging criteria.

Those packagers, and Fedora, are "supporting Linux".

Meanwhile, for every distribution-created "bug" there are ten thousand 
that created by the upstream authors.  Most upstreams are mature enough 
to recognize this, and consider distribution-level packaging (and 
front-line user support) efforts to be, on the whole, a net gain.

 - Solomon
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