Re: Should we stop distributing source tarballs?

2024-04-05 Thread Tobias Leupold
Am 05.04.24 um 06:25 schrieb Juraj Oravec: On streda 3. apríla 2024 18:34:04 CEST Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: Hi KDE folks, The recent xz backdoor scandal made me realize how bad and obsolete distributing tarballs is. The source of truth for our code are the repositories, and releases can simply

Re: Should we stop distributing source tarballs?

2024-04-05 Thread Juraj Oravec
On piatok 5. apríla 2024 9:04:14 CEST Tobias Leupold wrote: > Am 05.04.24 um 06:25 schrieb Juraj Oravec: > > Hello Albert, > > > > The release tarballs can be signed with GPG (or is it PGP?) which > > provide another layer of protection to make sure the release is > > authenthic. > > > > If KDE w

Re: Should we stop distributing source tarballs?

2024-04-05 Thread Albert Vaca Cintora
It seems a lot of people feel conservative in favor of tarballs, so maybe I aimed too far. At least I think the discussion brought some interesting points that we can explore further. Some I identified: - The tarballs should contain no changes with respect to git, or minimal changes obviously just

Re: Should we stop distributing source tarballs?

2024-04-05 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Freitag, 5. April 2024 12:04:28 CEST Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: > It seems a lot of people feel conservative in favor of tarballs, so > maybe I aimed too far. At least I think the discussion brought some > interesting points that we can explore further. Some I identified: > > - The tarballs sho

Re: Should we stop distributing source tarballs?

2024-04-05 Thread Carl Schwan
On Friday, April 5, 2024 12:04:28 PM CEST Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: > It seems a lot of people feel conservative in favor of tarballs, so > maybe I aimed too far. At least I think the discussion brought some > interesting points that we can explore further. Some I identified: > > - The tarballs s

Re: Should we stop distributing source tarballs?

2024-04-05 Thread Heiko Becker
On Friday, 5 April 2024 12:04:28 CEST, Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: It seems a lot of people feel conservative in favor of tarballs, so maybe I aimed too far. At least I think the discussion brought some interesting points that we can explore further. Some I identified: - The tarballs should conta

Re: Should we stop distributing source tarballs?

2024-04-05 Thread Johannes Zarl-Zierl
Am Freitag, 5. April 2024, 13:45:35 CEST schrieb Carl Schwan: > On Friday, April 5, 2024 12:04:28 PM CEST Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: > > - Tarballs should only be generated in a reproducible manner using > > scripts. Ideally by the CI only. > > - We should start to sign tarballs in the CI. > > I d

Re: Should we stop distributing source tarballs?

2024-04-05 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 1:43 AM Heiko Becker wrote: > On Friday, 5 April 2024 12:04:28 CEST, Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: > > It seems a lot of people feel conservative in favor of tarballs, so > > maybe I aimed too far. At least I think the discussion brought some > > interesting points that we can

Re: Should we stop distributing source tarballs?

2024-04-05 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Sat, Apr 6, 2024 at 4:23 AM Johannes Zarl-Zierl wrote: > Am Freitag, 5. April 2024, 13:45:35 CEST schrieb Carl Schwan: > > On Friday, April 5, 2024 12:04:28 PM CEST Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: > > > - Tarballs should only be generated in a reproducible manner using > > > scripts. Ideally by the