Re: faster tracker data processing

[Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>]

Michael S Gilbert wrote:

> On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:37:23 -0500 Raphael Geissert wrote:
>> 
>> I actually meant something more like:
>> 
>> CVE-2009-1234 (heap overflow in Alvaro's Messenger could...)
>>         TODO: check
>>         HINT: amsn
>> CVE-2009-2345 (incorrect handling of null-terminated strings in foo...)
>>         TODO: check
>>         HINT: foo (if such a package existed)
> 
> i don't think its necessary to invent a new tag.  i meant:
> 
>   CVE-2009-1234 (heap overflow in Alvaro's Messenger could...)
>           TODO: check amsn (and other packages)
>   CVE-2009-2345 (incorrect handling of null-terminated strings in foo..)
>           TODO: check foo (and other packages)
> 

The idea is to make it easy to parse so that that information is used by
other tools.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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