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Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted



Marko Randjelovic <markoran <at> eunet.rs> writes:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:35:26 +0800
> Paul Wise <pabs <at> debian.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> > 
> > > - security patches should be clearly marked as such in every *.patch
> > >   file
> > 
> > That sounds like a good idea, could you add it to the wiki page?
> 
> I added this:
> 
> "Debian policy should require that in every source package all security
> packages should be clearly marked as such in standard and easily parsable 
> way with optional further references."

Veto because the security impact of bugs is disputable, and
probably 100% of all patches:

http://www.insanitybit.com/2012/06/02/linus-torvalds-all-bugs-are-created-
equal-9/

bye,
//mirabilos


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