On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 13:37 +0300, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote:
> Am Freitag, 10. April 2020, 09:58:37 EEST schrieb Michał Górny:
> > 1. 'Broken' status was removed, as it is redundant to profile status.
> > 
> > 2. State names were changed from 'testing' and 'unstable' to 'degraded'
> >    (broken stable tree) and 'testing' (pure ~arch) to avoid confusion.
> > 
> 
> Back in time there was also the idea to use this file to indicate security 
> support of an arch. The suggestion was to introduce another column, but I 
> found that rather horrible.
> 
> So a better idea would be to introduce an additional status "security", 
> designating "stable with security support".
> 
> (Acts in every other respect exactly like "stable".)
> 
> What do you think?

I suppose it'd work for me.  I'm not sure if we have any use case for
having this data machine-readable but I guess there's no harm in it,
and better add it now than adjust tools later.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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