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Re: CAN to CVE: changing changelogs?



Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Found it. From: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>, Message-ID:
> <20041124100730.GF7329@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>, and Message-ID:
> <20041129185017.GA25751@finlandia.infodrom.north.de> at
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=282681

"Please add this id to the proper changelog entry with the next upload."

That's easily misinterpreted, although I won't try to guess which of us is
doing so.

One thing that this bug illustrates pretty well that is quite annoying
when trying to determine what version of a package actually fixed a
security hole, is new upstream releases that are listed in the changelog
as fixing a particular CVE, when the hole was actually fixed in a
previous debian revision of the old upstream version. That's a case
where clarity is very useful in the changelog. (So is proper use of the
new version tracking features of the BTS.)

-- 
see shy jo

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