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“the lesson I'm choosing to take from xz, as an oss maintainer, is that anyone trying to pressure or guilt me into doing something should immediately be told no, for security reasons” (crabby.fyi)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

It's common to bundle test artefacts with the release tarballs. The reason is that when Linux distributions build the software from the tarballs, they often run the tests to ensure that they pass.