Re: Upcoming changes in advisory format
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 01:08:07PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
>
>> Traditionally Debian security advisories have included MD5 check sums
>> of the updated packages.
>
>> Since apt cryptographically enforces the integrity of the archive
>> for quite some time now, we've decided to finally drop the hash
>> values from our advisory mails.
>
> The side-effect of that is that you are now listing only the source
> package name, and not anymore the binary package names. But to do the
> upgrade, the administrator of the machine has to select the binary
> packages for upgrade, or, to check if the testing/sid version the
> machine has is new enough, check the installed version of all binary
> packages built from that source package.
FTR, the template currently in use is not the final version.
Changes are still under discussion.
Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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