So, you suggest that Frederik Schwan had prior knowledge of the security issues but hid the real purpose of the commit under "improve reproducibility"?
And, If you break the embargo too many times then you just find out with the rest of us and that's not a great way to run a distro. I believe openbsd is or was in that position around the time of the intel speculative execution bugs.
xz was masked in the Gentoo repositories earlier today with the stated reason of "Investigating serious bug". No mention of security. It's pretty likely.
