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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 01:11:29 -0700
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Subject: Re: Linux xz issue
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On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 9:15 PM Keith Thompson
<Keith.S.Thompson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Achim Gratz Stromeko@Nexgo.DE wrote:
> > Beyond that, the version 5.4.6 that everybody is currently reverting to
> > (and is also still available for Cygwin if you want to go back) was
> > already released when the presumed bad actor was co-maintainer and their
> > involvement goes back even farther based on the Xz developer mailing
> > list.  The repository has been deactivated by GitHub so I can't check
> > there, but there is already some discussion about rolling back to 5.3.1
> > or thereabouts.
>
> The GitHub repo at <https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz> has been
> deactivated, but there's another xz repo (likely the original one)
> at <https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz>.  The most recent commit
> in that repo is "CMake: Fix sabotaged Landlock sandbox check.".
>
> I have no inside knowledge about any of this.
>
> I'm running the Cygwin setup right now.  It reverts the xz package
> from 5.6.1-1 to 5.4.6-1.  Only 5.4.2-1 and 5.4.6-1 are available.

Sorry, I pasted the same link twice.

The deactivated GitHub repo is:
https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz

The tukaani.org repo (still active) is:
https://git.tukaani.org/xz.git

Thanks to oskar for pointing out my error.

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