Hi The functionality looks useful. Should it even be part of lts-cve-triage.py script, or should it be a separate thing? I'm asking since I typically use just the lts-cve-triage.py script when working as front desk. If we should use several scripts maybe we should have a wrapper script around it to ease the work.
// Ola On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 17:02, Roberto C. Sánchez <robe...@debian.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > Some days ago I claimed tigervnc in dla-needed.txt and began working on > it. Only, after about an hour it dawned on me that tigervnc was not > present in jessie. I went about trying to determine the best way to > ensure that only packages actually in the appropriate suite > (oldoldstable for now for jessie) end up in dla-needed.txt. > > After asking on debian-devel regarding API accessibility of > distro-tracker and reviewing the limited options, I came up with a minor > modification to the review-update-needed script that queries rmadison > for information regarding the existence of the packages in > dla-needed.txt. > > I have done my best to seamlessly integrate with the existing > capabilities of the script and to integrate in such a way that, for > example, the new capability could be easily leveraged by those working > front-desk or even automated by cron to quickly alert of the presence of > packages in dla-needed.txt that are not present in jessie. The > implementation should also work for dsa-needed.txt if that might be > useful to those who maintain that file. > > Please have a look at the attached patch and let me know what you think. > If the consensus is that this capability would be useful, I will go > ahead and commit/push the change to the security-tracker repo. > > Here is some example output: > > roberto@build01:~/src/security-tracker.git (master *=)$ > ./bin/review-update-needed --lts --exist-in oldoldstable | tail > > Package: iperf3 > Claimed-By: Thorsten Alteholz > Claimed-Date: 2020-01-26 21:47 > Last-Update: 2020-01-27 11:16 > > Package: tigervnc > Missing-From: oldoldstable > Unclaimed-Since: 2020-01-27 15:53 > > > Regards, > > -Roberto > > -- > Roberto C. Sánchez > -- --- Inguza Technology AB --- MSc in Information Technology ---- | o...@inguza.com o...@debian.org | | http://inguza.com/ Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | ---------------------------------------------------------------
