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Re: DLA documented



On Tue, 15 Jul 2014, Holger Levsen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Dienstag, 15. Juli 2014, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > I don't think we should impose restrictions on the format of the mails.
> 
> I think we absolutly should. We want consistend announcements, don't we?
> 
> > If
> > we want to welcome maintainers not part of the LTS team to take care of
> > packages in Debian LTS, we should not make this needlessly difficult.
> 
> Sure! But I think we can do both.
> 
> > Let's not mimick the existing security.debian.org infrastructure too much,
> > but rather have a look on how can create cleaner solutions from scratch
> > (and retrofit them into security.debian.org once they've proven
> > themselves):
> 
> I also agree with this.
> 
> > If IDs are important to people to have a specific identifier, we should
> > rather solve this technically: The script which checks the PGP signature
> > could simply increment the ID internally and rewrite the subject with [DLA
> > $ID]. This saves people from all hassle with allocating IDs and it's free
> > of race conditions in assigning IDs.
> 
> listmasters, how feasible do you think it is? I'm all for automating the 
> generation of proper announcements! (But I also think that we should use other 
> means to achieve consisten announcements until we got there.)
if someone provides something that works with procmail: sure. But please
don't expect us to write something for you. You need of course save the
id somewhere, do locking and so on.

Alex

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