Re: Collecting notes for preparing security updates for selected packages

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi Moritz,

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:14:49PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Hi,
> now that more people are involved in creating security updates outside
> the security team we should create a central place to gather useful
> information.
> 
> We can use this to collect information how to build tricky packages
> (like the Linux kernel or OpenJDK) and especially to collect information
> how to test a built package. I know that some packages have README
> files explaining how to test them and some packages use autopkgtest in 
> jessie, but such files are not available in the old packages. If a
> package is already well-documented in e.g. unstable, the entry for that
> package would be as simple as see README.foo in recent Debian releases.
> 
> I've just create a new directory packages/ in the SVN repository along
> with an initial entry for openjdk, which describes how to build
> security updates for it.

Thanks for preparing this, it is indeed a great idea.

Regards,
Salvatore