> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 1, 2016 15:43
> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Officially releasing a patch for CVE-2016-1513
> 
> 
> On 07/31/2016 05:17 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Kay sch...@apache.org [mailto:ksch...@apache.org]
> >> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2016 14:42
> >> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> >> Subject: Re: Officially releasing a patch for CVE-2016-1513
> >>
> >> OK, I think I'm done with the LInux64 bit area as well.
> >>
> >> And see below ....
> >>
> >>
> >> On 07/31/2016 01:10 PM, Marcus wrote:
> > [ ... ]
> >>> I'm preparing the hotfix webpage. For this I've some questions:
> >>>
> >>> 1. Do we want to provide zip files for every platform or just single
> >>> files for the library and other files?
> >>
> >> Hmmmm... I assumed we would just be point people directly at
> >> /dist/release/openoffice/patches.
> >> (Right now, these are in /dist/dev/openoffice/patches.)
> >>
> >> It would be easiest to just setup the hotfix page with three links
> per
> >> distro.
> >>
> >> Linux32
> >> * link to Linux32.README
> >> * link to linux32 libtl.so
> >> * link to linux32 libtl.so.asc (sig)
> >>
> >> etc.
> >>
> >> If not, the READMEs I wrote will need to change.
> > [orcmid]
> >
> > I recommend there should be single-file (e.g., Zip) distributions,
> just like all other binaries.  That gives just one thing to download.
> The MD5, SHA512, and ASC signatures should be on the whole package and
> stay in the dev/ and release/ folders, just as they are on download
> pages.  (The ASC signatures on the individual library-file binaries
> should be inside the package.)  I suspect, on the dev/ side, we might
> need copies of the READMEs alongside the archives, and revised more
> regularly,
> 
> I was Ok up to this statement. Are you saying INCLUDE the readmes in the
> zip package but leave them outside of where they now are? If we want
> signed zip files, can't we just leave the files we have now in:
> 
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.2-patch1/binaries/
> 
> but zip them up as well, inlcuding the READMEs?
> Or, are you saying at distribution time, remove the libraries and their
> sigs Btu leave the README files?
> We have these in their own labeled area -- 4.1.2-patch1 -- so I don't
> see a problem with just leaving everything there.
> 
[orcmid] 

I'll do what I mean by example when I upload the Windows case by tomorrow 
morning, at the latest.

Then it will be easier to talk about it.

 - Dennis

> > so they can be reviewed and revised easily as we get QA and trial use.
> When we move over to release/ we might want to do the same, even though
> the README is in the archive, so that people can read it without
> downloading the package.
> >
> > Finally, please use README.txt, etc., so that line-ending adjustments
> will happen properly when folks move these in and out of SVN and also
> out of archive files.  This will also help browsers when folks retrieve
> these directly from the repository.
> >
> > PS: If we are concerned about the README.txt outside of the archive
> being authenticated, it can have an embedded PGP signature.  (Then the
> final archive-internal one would be a copy of the signed README.txt --
> no biggie, nice chain of custody).
> >
> > [ ... ]
> >
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