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vamega on Dec 23, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nix on the Steam Deck

It appears that there is a maintainer approval process on nixpkgs prs? Am I wrong about that, or did you mean upstream approval process?

Can you expand on the issue with code signing?

lrvick on Dec 23, 2022 [–]

The current process simply assumes Github credentials can never be stolen, and ignores countless cases where exactly that has happened.

See rejected RFC for more details: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/34

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