Hi. Yesterday I browsed a little trough the www.debian.org bug list. I ran into the bugs #161118: security web page doesn't show DSA updates (also #161117, #133800) #156679: www.debian.org: Recent security advisory list too short.
Both are related to the fact that the list of recent items (templates/debian/recent_list.wml) are actually sorted by filename instead by date . Because I was in the mood for a little dirty Perl hacking, I produced an alternate recent_list method. "Features:" you can specify a time frame from now back (in days, weeks or months) and a minimum number of entries. Items are sorted by their date/report_date tags. To solve #16118 it would be necessary to either change the report_date with the revision or add a new tag (f.e. revision_date). Opinions? An example output you can see at http://www.lichtenheld.de/debian-www/ I added to a random DSA (134) a revision_date tag to demonstrate my proposed solution for the bug. There you also find the source code (yet pourly documented and not tested with other items than DSAs). Feedback welcome, Frank -- Frank Lichtenheld www: http://www.djpig.de mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
