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Re: CAN to CVE: changing changelogs?



On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 12:36 +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > Are there any thoughts on changing changelogs retroactively? Might it
> > even be an idea to add a lintian check for 'old-style' CAN id's?
> 
> You could change them retroactively (with a little note that you did so),
> but it's not strictly necessary, as MITRE will continue to provide referrals
> from CAN-based entries to CVE-based entries.

Wouldn't one of the goals of the change to just one name instead of two
per issue be to facilitate things like googling, grepping and other
searching on CVE id's? Then it would make sense to unify the names as
widely as possibe.


Thijs

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