As far as I understand all of those packages can be
added into the dla-needed without pre-review? Why not just
put all of them together.
OK, maybe with the short note "needs manual checking" or
similar.
Regards
Anton
Am Di., 17. Mai 2022 um 14:43 Uhr schrieb Sylvain Beucler <beuc@beuc.net>:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 17/05/2022 08:44, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > When doing triaging this week as part of the front desk assignment I
> > realized that the lts-cve-triage.py script outputs the following
> > section "Other issues to triage for stretch (not yet triaged for
> > buster)" after "Issues postponed for stretch, but fixed in buster via
> > DSA or point releases".
> >
> > I think people before me have missed to help with that triaging
> > because that list of packages to check is long. At least it is easy to
> > miss it.
>
> See https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2022/04/msg00011.html for
> context. I also talked about it during the monthly meeting.
>
> "Issues postponed for stretch, but fixed in buster via DSA or point
> releases" is a long section because it's new, it shouldn't stay that way.
>
> I'm not sure why the past few front-desk didn't tackle it already
> despite the above communications, in any case I plan to tackle it during
> my FD slot next week if nobody beats me to it.
>
>
> > Now to the question. Do we generally wait for the Debian Security team
> > to do their analysis before LTS do it? If that is the case, the
> > current list makes sense. If not I think my proposed change should be
> > done.
> >
> > I have done a change so that "Issues postponed for stretch, but fixed
> > in buster via DSA or point releases" is much further down in the list
> > because it is generally not so important for triaging work, compared
> > to the other ones.
> >
> > Any objections? If not, I'll commit the change tomorrow.
>
> This section is where we are late compared to stable/oldstable, where
> CVEs are already fixed and published in Debian, but not in Debian LTS,
> sometimes months after.
>
> This sounds more urgent to me than checking untriaged CVEs, hence why
> it's output before. So I'd keep the ordering as-is.
>
> Cheers!
> Sylvain Beucler
> Debian LTS Team
>