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[-] pbsds@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

If the issue had been critical, then the branch head could be rolled back, causing everyone to downgrade

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's a nice idea in theory but not possible in practice as the last Nixpkgs revision without a tainted version of xz is many months old. You'd trade one CVE for dozens of others.

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