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[bug#42048] [PATCH 3/6] channels: Remove 'signature' from <channel-intro
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#42048] [PATCH 3/6] channels: Remove 'signature' from <channel-introduction>. |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 17:15:56 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> In the end signing the commit/key pair does not buy us much. Someone
>> publishing a valid but different commit/key pair would effectively be
>> publishing a different channel, which could be a fork (made by a former
>> authorized developer) or simply a mirror. In the latter case, there's
>> nothing to be gained by publishing a different commit/key pair.
>>
>> * guix/channels.scm (<channel-introduction>)[signature]: Remove.
>> (make-channel-introduction): Adjust accordingly.
>> ---
> […]
>> (define (make-channel-introduction commit signer)
>> "Return a new channel introduction: COMMIT is the introductory where
>> authentication starts, and SIGNER is the OpenPGP fingerprint (a bytevector)
>> of
>> the signer of that commit."
>> - (%make-channel-introduction commit signer #f))
>> + (%make-channel-introduction commit signer))
>
> Do we still need this procedure at all? Looks like
> %make-channel-introduction could simply be renamed to
> make-channel-introduction.
‘%make-channel-introduction’ is actually a macro, which is thus inlined.
Exporting a procedure makes it easier to preserve ABI compatibility and
allow for future extensions (keyword parameters, for instance).
Ludo’.