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Rolling back two years worth of commits made by a major contributor is going to be hell. I'm looking forward to see how they'll do this.

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Not really. xz worked fine 2 years ago. Roll back to 5.3.1 and apply a fix for the 1 security hole that was fixed since that old version. (ZDI-CAN-16587)

Slight oversimplification, see https://bugs.debian.org/1068024 discussion.

This seems true with so many of these core libraries. Change for the sake of change introduces attack vectors. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Yeah but people will cry "dead project" if there hasn't been a release for a week.

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