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by acdha 1921 days ago
It’s because they’re implementing the feature so they can show a CISO a big scary report and say “good thing you paid us - otherwise you wouldn’t have known!”

If they were serious about build errors they could use the built-in features of APT, YUM, etc. to only report binaries which don’t match the canonical distribution’s hashes, as has been standard sysadmin practice for aeons.