Re: www.d.o/security/oval needs some work

[Marcus Furlong <furlongm@gmail.com>]

Raphael Geissert <geissert <at> debian.org> writes:

> 
> On Sunday 20 January 2013 22:19:27 Paul Wise wrote:
> > Hi security/web folks,
> > 
> > The script that generates security/oval/ from DSA data only works with
> > python2.5, which will go away when the www-master.d.o server is upgraded
> > to wheezy. Even when fixed it generates empty files for 2000, 2012 and
> > 2013. Also it produces lots and lots of warnings for each year.
> > 
> > Could someone from the security team take a look at these issues?
> 
> I've just fixed the python compat issue.
> 
> The rest seems to be a side effect from the switch from the verbose (+ 
> md5sums and files lists) DSAs to the abbreviated versions and will require 
> some work for it to generate anything useful.

Hi,

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but I didn't see any further 
updates on this issue.

Is this script publicly available? If not, could it be made so? I wouldn't 
mind working on this script to restore this functionality to the website.

Regards,
Marcus