Re: Security lessons from liblzma

From: Michael Banck <mbanck(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Security lessons from liblzma
Date: 2024-03-31 10:18:29
Message-ID: 66093876.050a0220.17192.8268@mx.google.com
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On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 09:52:47PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 07:54:00PM -0400, Joe Conway wrote:
> > Virtually every RPM source, including ours, contains out of tree patches
> > that get applied on top of the release tarball. At least for the PGDG
> > packages, it would be nice to integrate them into our git repo as build
> > options or whatever so that the packages could be built without any patches
> > applied to it. Add a tarball that is signed and traceable back to the git
> > tag, and we would be in a much better place than we are now.
>
> How would someone access the out-of-tree patches? I think Debian
> includes the patches in its source tarball.

If you ask where they are maintained, the answer is here:

https://salsa.debian.org/postgresql/postgresql/-/tree/17/debian/patches?ref_type=heads

the other major versions have their own branch.

Michael

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