On Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 20:53 Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote:

>
> While I agree that this is a good idea, I have one note of caution:
> What's to stop someone adding a malicious package which did something
> like ‘Provides: glibc’ and subsequently infects everyone's machine?
> I think we'd want to consider the security implications of accepting
> packages after only automated review.
>

I agree. I think a pair of human eyes will have to look at package
submissions at least until we have a sufficiently advanced FPC AI to do it
;)

However, I think using automated checks for existing packages would be a
nice thing (although fedora-review isn't suited to do that right now, and
is out of sync with current guidelines).

Fabio


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