Re: GNU Coding Standards, automake, and the recent xz-utils backdoor

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I'm also wondering whether the GNU system should recommend using zstd
  > instead of or in addition to xz for compression purposes.

This would seem like an overreaction to me.
Any program can have a bug.  I am sure this one has been fixed now.
Which compression library will have a bug next?
It could be any.

I removed automake@gnu.org from this message because I don't think
this subissue pertains directly to that.


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