Re: new release?

2022-02-06 Thread Richard Purdie
On Sat, 2022-02-05 at 21:06 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 05 Feb 2022 15:15, Alex Ameen wrote: > > This is a good question. I plan on making a new release this month. > > > > When I first adopted the project I ambitiously thought I'd manage to > > create a new release after about a month; but

Re: new release?

2022-02-06 Thread Daniel Herring
FWIW, libtool is a particularly difficult code base to release. Long history, many users, multi-platform, ... I would personally recommend the "slow" process unless you are confident this release will "do no harm". It was made for a reason, even if it feels nobody is participating. Relax, p

Re: new release?

2022-02-06 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 11:57 AM Daniel Herring wrote: > I would personally recommend the "slow" process unless you are confident > this release will "do no harm". Hasn't it been slow enough already? Some say the project is finished.

Re: new release?

2022-02-06 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 6 Feb 2022, Daniel Herring wrote: In my opinion, frequent slow releases are way better than rare fast releases. That may be true for some software, but libtool has a really good test suite so if tests pass, there is high confidence of quality for the systems it has been executed on.

Re: new release?

2022-02-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 06 Feb 2022 11:56, Daniel Herring wrote: > FWIW, libtool is a particularly difficult code base to release. Long > history, many users, multi-platform, ... > > I would personally recommend the "slow" process unless you are confident > this release will "do no harm". It was made for a reason,

.gitmodules security

2022-02-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
The .gitmodules file contains: [submodule "gnulib"] path = gnulib url = git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git [submodule "bootstrap"] path = gl-mod/bootstrap url = https://github.com/gnulib-modules/bootstrap.git but AFAIK, there is no host authentication done with the "g

Re: .gitmodules security

2022-02-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-02-06 21:22:11 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The .gitmodules file contains: > > [submodule "gnulib"] > path = gnulib > url = git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git > [submodule "bootstrap"] > path = gl-mod/bootstrap > url = https://github.com/gnulib-modules/boots

Re: .gitmodules security

2022-02-06 Thread Alex Ameen
Hey, I can't claim to be an expert about this category of vulnerability; but I appreciate you raising this concern. So is your recommendation to use https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gnulib.git instead of git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git? On 2/6/22 2:26 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2022-02-0

Re: .gitmodules security

2022-02-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-02-06 14:59:00 -0600, Alex Ameen wrote: > Hey, I can't claim to be an expert about this category of vulnerability; but > I appreciate you raising this concern. > > So is your recommendation to use https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gnulib.git > instead of git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git? Ye

Re: .gitmodules security

2022-02-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 06 Feb 2022 14:59, Alex Ameen wrote: > Hey, I can't claim to be an expert about this category of vulnerability; > but I appreciate you raising this concern. it requires more than a MITM to be successful. you'd also have to come up with a sha1 collision which is non-trivial for most people. n

Re: .gitmodules security

2022-02-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-02-06 16:43:47 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > it requires more than a MITM to be successful. you'd also have to > come up with a sha1 collision which is non-trivial for most people. > not out of the reach of nation states, but we prob aren't the target > market :p. I don't understand why y

Re: .gitmodules security

2022-02-06 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 07 Feb 2022 00:19, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2022-02-06 16:43:47 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > it requires more than a MITM to be successful. you'd also have to > > come up with a sha1 collision which is non-trivial for most people. > > not out of the reach of nation states, but we prob are