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Bug#1001451: Candidate script



On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:40:04 +0100 Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Neil,
> 
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 01:22:32PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > Online - query either the distro-tracker or debian-devel-changes mail archive:
> > >   --email EMAIL      URL of debian-devel-changes announcement in the list archive
> > >   --tracker TRACKER  URL of tracker.debian.org 'Accepted NEWS' page for unstable
> > > 
> > 
> > Nice! I will need (or want) to try to experiment with it a bit on
> > apparing real cases.
> 
> Just doing a quick test, while beeing entusiastic about your proposed
> script: I think it will not work correctly yet wit bin/merge-cve-list.
> On either side it will need adaption.

OK. I will add that to my tests on next versions of the script.
 
> Taking the example with freerdp2, assuming there won't be the fixed
> version yet in the data/CVE/list it will produce the following
> freerdp2.list:
> 
> CVE-2021-41160 (FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), ...)
>         - freerdp2 2.4.1+dfsg1-1 (bug #1001062)
>         [bullseye] - freerdp2 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
>         [buster] - freerdp2 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
>         - freerdp <removed>

> $ ./bin/merge-cve-list data/CVE/list ./freerdp2.list
> [...]
> NotImplementedError: unsupported annotation of type NOTE (line 7)
> 
> So maybe it's just merge-cve-list which should be better and allow for
> such situation and handle as well the NOTEs.

I'll work on adding that support - it will be useful for the
changes for #1001453 which wants to explicitly add a NOTE entry.
 
> This just what i noticed while wanting to try it out.
> 
> Usually we read the debian-changes mails in a MUA, so I wonder if we
> can make the script accept as well not only things passed by --tracker
> or --email, but rather piped trough when reading the changes mail in
> e.g. mutt. What woud you think about it?

I wondered if stdin type input would be required. I'll work on that
next week, probably Monday.

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Neil Williams
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