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Merge pull request #11620 from bayandin/bayandin-patch-1

Acceptable-Formulae: add a quote from Veracode report
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......@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ Clang is the default C/C++ compiler on macOS (and has been for a long time). Sof
We're a package manager so we want to do things like resolve dependencies and set up applications for our users. If things require too much manual intervention then they aren't useful in a package manager.
## Stuff that requires vendored versions of Homebrew formulae
Homebrew formulae should avoid having multiple, separate, upstream projects bundled together in a single package to avoid shipping outdated/insecure versions of software that is already a formula.
Homebrew formulae should avoid having multiple, separate, upstream projects bundled together in a single package to avoid shipping outdated/insecure versions of software that is already a formula. Veracode's [State of Software Security report](https://www.veracode.com/blog/research/announcing-state-software-security-v11-open-source-edition) concludes
> In fact, 79% of the time, developers never update third-party libraries after including them in a codebase.
For more info see [Debian's](https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-embeddedfiles) and [Fedora's](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#bundling) stances on this.
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