On 10/10/2015 04:14 PM, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On 06/10/15 15:10, Ian Clarke wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:39 AM, xor <x...@freenetproject.org> wrote:
...
> Deploying build-time dependencies via Gradle is not appropriate IMHO: It
> means updating them is *our* responsibility, and it increases our
> maintenance overheads as a result, and reduces the end-user's security.
> Updating JUnit etc is the distribution's responsibility, not ours. And
> anything that doesn't get updated is a security risk.

In what way does it make updating them our responsibility? Checksum
pinning does that inherently already. Charles linked to gradle-witness
and it looks like exactly what we're looking for: transitive dependency
checksum verification. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/gradle-witness

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