Hi Eric & Peter, I would like to welcome yourself and SELKS to the Debian derivatives census! Would you like to take this opportunity to introduce yourself and SELKS to us all? https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/SELKS It would be great if you could join our mailing list and IRC channel: https://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk I would encourage you to look at Debian's guidelines for derivatives: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines You may want to look at our census QA page, some of the mails from there may apply to SELKS. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA You don't appear to be subscribed to the SELKS census page, I've made a few changes to the SELKS census page: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/SELKS?action=info It would be great if you could clarify the "Distribution type" and "Debian archive quantity" fields. If multiple options apply, replace the pipe characters with commas. The census page doesn't list Stamus Networks as the corporate sponsor of SELKS and says the funding model is community driven but your website gave me the opposite impression. Could you clarify this? The apt repository for SELKS does not contain source packages, including for packages licensed under the GNU GPL. This may or may not be a copyright violation depending on whether our not you distribute those elsewhere. In any case, please add source packages to your repository so that Debian can automatically create patches to be presented to Debian package maintainers. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA#No_source_packages https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Integration#Patches Some of the Release files in the apt repository for SELKS are missing the Valid-Until header, which allows clients to find out when active network attackers are holding back newer Release files. At minimum, rolling releases and suites containing security updates should have this header. With reprepro you can use the ValidFor config option. https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat#Date.2CValid-Until I think you can close this issue as you have an apt repository now at the packages.stamus-networks.com domain listed in the census page. https://github.com/StamusNetworks/SELKS/issues/2 I've added the SELKS blog to Planet Debian derivatives which helps the Debian community find out the things that are happening in the world of Debian derivatives. http://planet.debian.org/deriv/ Since SELKS originated in France according to Distrowatch you might be interested in joining the Debian France group. https://wiki.debian.org/LocalGroups#France Next year the annual Debian conference is in Montreal, Canada. It would be great if developers from SELKS could attend DebConf17. https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf17 I would encourage any attendees to volunteer to ensure the continued the success of the annual Debian conference, here are some examples of things that need helpers. https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/VolunteerCoordination I note that SELKS is based on Debian stable. The Debian release team recently released a timeline for the freeze for the next Debian stable release. I would encourage you to review it and prepare your plans for rebasing on the next Debian release (stretch). https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/07/msg00002.html A great way to help ensure that the next Debian release working well for you is to install and run the how-can-i-help tool and try to work on any issues that come up. http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=837 https://packages.debian.org/unstable/how-can-i-help https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-help I note that SELKS uses debian-cd, live-build, reprepro and LXDE, I would encourage you to provide feedback and fixes to the teams. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCd https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-lxde https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/reprepro Please note that live-build is now orphaned, so you might want to join the Debian Live team to make sure it is possible to use it for stretch. Please note that LXDE is being replaced with LXQt. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/LXQtPackagingTeam You might want to consider adding DNSSEC and TLSA records to your domains and SSL to some of your domains. SSL on the repository will help SELKS users to obscure package names and version numbers from global active adversaries. You might also want to add HSTS headers. Please feel free to circulate this mail within the SELKS team. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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