Hi devs,

As of this morning, there were 1108 CVEs in place for Debian
Buster (Devuan Beowulf).  Of these, 41 were prioritized 'high**', 199
'medium**', 17 'low**', 158 'low', 18 'unassigned',  550 'unimportant'
and 143 had yet to be assigned.  

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/testing

Of these, 32 ( 3 'high', 2 'medium', 2 'low', 7 'unimportant' and
18 'unassigned') of these CVEs have been marked 'fixed in unstable', and
have therefore made it to 'candidate' status in the DTSA database. 

 https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/dtsa-candidates

I am experimenting with the idea of a customised local instance of the
Debian security-tracker  but configured for Devuan Beowulf . Thus I may
have access to a local devuan-security mirror from which I could
extract a beowulf summary for this list to accompany the DSA summaries
for ascii.  To this end, I have done the following:

1) git clone
[email protected]:security-tracker-team/security-tracker.git
and issued $bin/setup-repo

2) with a view to a devuan-specific version of this 
https://security-team.debian.org/security_tracker.html#setting-up-a-local-testing-instance

3) by editing the ./security-tracker/Makefile to
Devuan specific variables. 

4)  I was hoping it would be a trivial matter of
replacing devuan values in place for debian e.g. 'ascii' for 'stretch'
and Devuan URLs in place of
MIRROR = http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian
SECURITY_MIRROR = http://security.debian.org/debian-security

Are there Devuan equivalents to these? Am I being naive? 

My reasoning was that as the distance between Devuan
and Debian grows, so the desirability for Devuan-specific security
advisories may well increase in tandem.  As this is going to add a
layer of uncertainty for the already over-worked upstream, my hope was
that I could do some of the preliminary spadework, although spadework
is about all it would (could) be. I have also reasoned that if
it was that simple, it's already been done, and probably better.  

Is there anything in this idea that could be developed into a 'project'?
I have had a look at the devuan-security pages, and would be more than
willing to be a junior participant in such a project.
https://git.devuan.org/devuan-security

All (any) advice or tips would be gratefully accepted.

Many Thanks

leloft





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