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[-] xlash123@sh.itjust.works 270 points 6 months ago

Commit 77a294d

Update maintainer and author info. The other maintainer suddenly disappeared.

Lmao, that's putting it lightly.

[-] 7eter@feddit.de 164 points 6 months ago

the other maintainer now has a special place:

Special author: Jia Tan was a co-maintainer in 2022-2024. He and the team behind him inserted a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) into XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 releases. He suddenly disappeared when this was discovered.

[-] rollingflower@lemmy.kde.social 46 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] intrepid@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

I don't think they would be in much peace. It was years of their work that was ruined by a person with OCD and valgrind.

[-] rollingflower@lemmy.kde.social 74 points 6 months ago

Can we stop calling a good software dev autistic or stuff?

[-] autokludge@programming.dev 72 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Hmm yes.

The floor is made out of floor

[-] mutter9355@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago

I like how the first point made is that the backdoor violates the Debian Free Software Guidelines, as if that's the main problem

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