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swarfield | 3 years ago

They have broken almost every open source project that builds external deps. Also broke homebrew apparently.

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capableweb|3 years ago

Good test that the tooling actually works when the checksums are incorrect :) If your "build from source" tool/workflow DIDN'T break, I'd be worried.

groestl|3 years ago

> every open source project that builds external deps

and relies on checksumming ephemeral artefacts for integrity.

catiopatio|3 years ago

Source archives have never, in the entire history of open source, been considered ephemeral.

GitHub unilaterally made that decision for their own convenience, and violated a decades-long universal community norm in the process.

pxc|3 years ago

Such tools should definitely checksum package sources lol