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<B>nicolas vigier</B>
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<I>Tue Jun 28 17:58:20 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
><i> Le mardi 28 juin 2011 à 16:23 +0200, Christiaan Welvaart a écrit :
</I>><i> > On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, nicolas vigier wrote:
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > > In order to send updates advisories, and have a web page listing all
</I>><i> > > previous advisories, we need to create a database to store them.
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > So I think it should have the following info for each advisory :
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > - advisory ID: something like MGA-[NUMBER] ?
</I>><i> > > - advisory date
</I>><i> > > - affected source packages
</I>><i> > > - affected distribution versions
</I>><i> > > - CVE numbers
</I>><i> > > - list of binary packages with sha1sum
</I>><i> Is there people that really check them ?
</I>><i> ( since there is already gpg and checksum in rpm that can be checked
</I>><i> automatically, I do not see the point in having this when it requires
</I>><i> another manual check )
</I>
Most other distributions include this in their advisories. But yes, it's
not very useful, so we can probably remove the sha1.
><i>
</I>><i> > > - Mageia Bug #
</I>><i> > > - Reference URLs
</I>><i> > > - advisory text
</I>><i> > >
</I>><i> > > Anything else ?
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > - severity
</I>><i> Adding severity would requires us to have precise rules about it, and
</I>><i> would not mean much, and likely lots of bike shedding about it.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> And also, what is the use precisely ?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> > - whether this is a security issue or a non-security bugfix
</I>><i> What if there is more than 1 fix ( like a firefox upgrade ) ?
</I>
If at least one of them is security, then it's a security update.
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