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people are mis-reading the Debian bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1067708

it wasn't the apparently newly-created identity "Hans Jansen" just asking for a new version to be uploaded, it was "Hans Jansen" providing a new version to be uploaded as a non-maintainer-upload - Debian-speak for "the maintainer is AWOL, someone else is uploading their package". if "Hans Jansen" is another attacker then they did this cleverly, providing the new - compromised - upstream tarballs in an innocent-looking way and avoiding anyone examining the upstream diff.



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