Re: GNU Coding Standards, automake, and the recent xz-utils backdoor

[Richard Stallman]

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  > The issue seems to be releases containing binary data for unit tests, 
  > instead of source or scripts to generate that data.  In this case, that 
  > binary data was used to smuggle in heavily obfuscated object code.

If this is the crucial point, we could put in the coding standards
(or the maintainers' guide) not to do this.

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