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Bug#648595: Debian Security Audit Team status



On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 08:18:41AM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:33:01AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > Is anything under http://www.debian.org/security/audit/ still
> > relevant? [I'm asking because of #648595.]
> 
> Yes, most under the audit/ dir is still relevant. Although:
> 
> - The "old" infrastructure provided by Steve Kemp is no longer available 
> 
> - The project itself is stalled, and its previous members are no longer
>   actively working on it
> 
> I suggest we should keep it since a new group could be formed and the goals
> and past achievements stated in the audit/ web pages are relevant.
> 
> Maybe we could highlight, however, that the audit effort is stalled. I sent
> my last audit report on a vulnerability may 2009 (which I just noticed is
> still unfixed), but the last information from the mailing list is from 2008
> IIRC.

Correction: Steve Kemp has continued with the audit effort and DSAs have been
produced in 2008, 2009 and 2011 as a result of this:
http://www.steve.org.uk/Security/Advisories/

I'm updating the audit/ information to reflect this too.

Regards

Javier

PS: I'm also updating Steve's email address since the previous one doesn't
work anymore.

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