[Pkg-javascript-devel] components without major risks

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Xaiver and Paolo,

Please allow me to highlight this security-related detail:

Quoting Xavier (2018-11-26 16:29:32)
> Embedding components without following them may be a lack of security. 
> I think we should have a policy for embedding:
>  - components without major risks   => not used in version
>  - components that must be followed => declared as "group" in
>    debian/watch
>  - components that must be followed and used in many other packages
>    => packaged separately

Quoting Paolo Greppi (2018-11-27 10:52:37)
> With yesterday's news about the event-stream node module being pwned: 
> https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116
> the importance of these matters should be clear to anyone.
> Probably there is no component "without major risks", and even if it 
> existed, it would be unfair to lay upon the busy maintainer the task 
> of deciding if it is risky or not.

Thanks to _both_ of you (and others in the thread) for all your work 
tackling these issues.

My point here is *not* to point fingers, but to emphasize an important 
aspect of our task as (re)distributors of code: Ensure code integrity 
towards our users.


 - Jonas

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