Re: Ill formated DSA data files
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:10:09AM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 12:36:44AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > Jens Seidel wrote:
> > > I noticed that the format of DSA data files changed (added MD5sum). One
> > > example is dsa-1234 whereas dsa-1233 still uses the old format.
> > >
> > > This makes the webpage http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1234
> > > nearly unreadable and needs to be fixed.
> >
> > The new dak emits advisory texts in a slightly different format. We
> > need to fix it to provide the old format as well. In the long-term
> > I'd like to see it fully automatised, so that we don't need to care
> > about webwml any longer.
>
> Yeah, that would really be good. To me it seems the most important
> step in that direction would be to provide the original DSAs in a
> really parsable format, so that we don't have to rely on guesswork
> as much as we currently do...
The new dak already emits templates, which are half-automated to a certain
extent. I don't have the time to fix this, but I'm sure AJ would gladly
accept patches. If someone is interested in doing it, please ping me by
mail and we can discuss some design aspects in IRC.
Cheers,
Moritz
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