Hi Gabriele, I would like to welcome yourself and SalentOS to the Debian derivatives census! Would you like to take this opportunity to introduce yourself and SalentOS to us all? https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/SalentOS 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 SalentOS. https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusQA You don't appear to be subscribed to the SalentOS census page, I've made a few changes to the SalentOS census page: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/SalentOS?action=info The page says that SalentOS modifies Debian binary packages. It is quite rare that distributions modify Debian binary packages instead of modifying source packages and rebuilding them. Does SalentOS actually do this? If so could you describe what kind of modifications you are making? If not I guess the page needs to be fixed. Some of the Release files in the apt repository for SalentOS 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 The apt repository for SalentOS does not contain source packages, including for packages licensed under the GNU LGPL and GNU GPL. This may or may not be a copyright violation depending on whether or 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 I've added the SalentOS blog to Planet Debian derivatives which helps the Debian community find out the things that are happening in the world of Debian derivatives. You may want to expand the SalentOS blog RSS feed to include the full posts instead of abbreviated ones. http://planet.debian.org/deriv/ Since SalentOS is based in Italy you might be interested in joining the Debian groups in Italy. https://wiki.debian.org/LocalGroups#Italy Next year the annual Debian conference is in Montreal, Canada. It would be great if developers from SalentOS could attend DebConf. If this isn't possible, the year after, DebConf might be in Taipei, Taiwan or Curitiba, Brazil. https://debconf17.debconf.org/ https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf18 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 SalentOS 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/msgid-search/20160706194235.GA7752@lupin.powdarrmonkey.net A great way to help ensure that the next Debian release working well 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 SalentOS uses live-build, reprepro and openbox, I would encourage you to provide feedback and fixes to the teams. 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. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/reprepro https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openbox You might want to consider adding DNSSEC to your domains, TLSA records and SSL to some of your domains. SSL on the repository will help SalentOS 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 SalentOS team. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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