Hi Anton,
There's no need for a MR for this short lts-specific patch, and I
believe this list has better visibility for the LTS team than the
security-tracker salsa project (where lts-cve-triage.py resides).
Cheers!
Sylvain
On 20/04/2022 18:09, Anton Gladky wrote:
> Hi Sylvian,
>
> thanks for your work! Could you please create a merge request,
> so we can discuss this nice improvement there?
>
> Regards
>
> Am Mi., 20. Apr. 2022 um 17:33 Uhr schrieb Sylvain Beucler
> <beuc@beuc.net <mailto:beuc@beuc.net>>:
>
> Now with the patch.
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 05:08:20PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > During my last front-desk week I noticed that we tend to miss or
> delay
> > some buster security updates, in particular those that come in point
> > releases, and a few batches of minor postponed fixes. See for
> > instance, 'dpdk' [1] or 'mailman' [2].
> >
> > Attached is a patch to 'bin/lts-cve-triage.py' to help exhibit those
> > updates so we schedule them in dla-needed.txt. This includes fixes
> > from stable/oldstable point releases or past DSAs, but excludes
> issues
> > explicitly ignored, and old fixes from back when buster was unstable.
> >
> > The current output is manageable (40-50 packages), and I plan to trim
> > it further down by properly tagging <ignored> some no-dsa issues that
> > are not meant to be fixed in stretch (see e.g. 'ark' [3]), and
> tagging
> > <end-of-life> a few others (e.g. 'node-*').
> >
> > At this point front-desk can proceed as usual using the enhanced
> > 'lts-cve-triage.py' output. Front-desk may need to use 'no-dsa'
> > sparingly in the future, in favor of its 'postponed' and 'ignored'
> > sub-states [4], so as to better help the tool.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Sylvain Beucler
> > Debian LTS Team
> >
> > [1]
> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/dpdk
> <https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/dpdk>
> > [2]
> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mailman
> <https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mailman>
> > [3]
> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/ark
> <https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/ark>
> > [4]
> https://security-team.debian.org/security_tracker.html#issues-not-warranting-a-security-advisory
> <https://security-team.debian.org/security_tracker.html#issues-not-warranting-a-security-advisory>