Openbsd's xz port maintainer looks at the build stages of the malicious code
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What xv[1] mess?
The text is well-written, at that summary level necessarily leaving out many complicated details of the real "mess", but also all of the social aspects.
It's better to email hn@ycombinator.com when you see this, rather than just mention it in a comment.
("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
If someone can suggest a more accurate and neutral title, preferably using some representative phrase from the article itself, we can change it.
Maybe something like:
Openbsd's xz port maintainer looks at the build stages of the malicious code
I needed to reword the phrase in the article quite a bit to get under the length limit.
(Submitted title was "Excellent succinct breakdown of the xv mess, from an OpenBSD developer")