Re: Make stable-security build logs public after embargo
Hello again Wanna-build team,
On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 04:51:56PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Hello Wanna-build team,
>
> I'm part of the Debian LTS Team, and along with the Security Team, we're
> looking into making embargo'd build logs eventually public.
> See https://salsa.debian.org/lts-team/lts-extra-tasks/-/issues/51
>
> Typical use case: when the LTS Team is working on the first LTS security
> upload for buster-security, the previous build logs are not available, while
> they are critical to interpret any new build failure.
> This also improves the overall transparency of the Debian project.
>
> So we'd like to make the stable-security build logs eventually public,
> preferably early. One approach is to make the build logs available through
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php on package release (when the
> embargoes for the package and possibly its dependencies are lifted, and the
> new packages are publicly distributed by Debian).
> Another more straightforward approach, but way more delayed, is to make
> these build logs available in batch, when handing over oldstable to the LTS
> team.
>
> Note: the new lts (buster-security) build logs are already made public, here
> we're targeting future-lts (bullseye-security) build logs.
>
> Currently we're not entirely sure on how build logs are injected to the
> buildd.debian.org/status/package.php service, so we're contacting you to
> determine how feasible this is. Typically:
> - Locate and identify publishable logs (in e-mail archives on master?)
> - Trigger the publication at the right time (dak hook?)
>
> I also volunteer to spend some time on the implementation, as part of my
> work on LTS.
>
> Do you think this can be achieved, and how?
>
Has there been any progress or discussion regarding this? The LTS team
will be responsible for bullseye starting in August and it would be
beneficial if there could be a resolution to this.
Is there anything that we could do from our side to help move things
along?
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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