Re: Bug#137946 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#137946: security.debian.org: Debian web site is slow to show new DSAs)

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> writes:
> 
> >> Both http://www.debian.org/ and http://www.debian.org/security/ did not
> >> contain a link to the DSA-119-1 that went out on March 7th until over
> 
> > They do now.
> 
> Yes, but the bug is that the DSAs are not posted when the DSAs are sent
> out.  If the DSAs aren't going to be kept up-to-date on the web pages
> mentioned in the bug report, then they are not reliable as a security
> tool and should be removed so nobody has any false impression that they
> can receive notification in a timely manner by checking the web page.
> 
> System administrators might be better off using a site such as
> http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/debian.html instead.

Somebody may want to add something like that to some page.

Regards,

	Joey

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