Bug#951442: debian-security-support: Please allow to exclude specific packages from the check

2020-02-21 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Holger Levsen wrote on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:40 +00:00: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 11:04:48AM +, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > Here you go: > [...] > > thanks, looks good to me now! Great, thanks for the quick turnaround! I'm building this now for buster and will update my local scripts to use

Bug#951442: debian-security-support: Please allow to exclude specific packages from the check

2020-02-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Daniel, On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 11:04:48AM +, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Here you go: [...] thanks, looks good to me now! > (Normally I'd add an interdiff alongside the new diff, but I'll skip > that since you said you only skimmed the original.) :) > P.S. Separate issue: in cases such

Bug#951442: debian-security-support: Please allow to exclude specific packages from the check

2020-02-21 Thread Daniel Shahaf
> > > > I'm not sure if the handling of the ":amd64" architecture suffixes is > > > > ideal. Thoughts? > > Okay, so what would you prefer? To have --except=foo match both > > foo and foo:bar for any value of bar? (and 'foo' documented as > > a bare package name without a ":arch" suffix) > >

Bug#951442: debian-security-support: Please allow to exclude specific packages from the check

2020-02-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Daniel, On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:50:46AM +, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Thanks for the review! well, I only glimpsed over it so far.. > > why is php5 mentioned here? > I based the new test on the existing "simple ($awk)" test. That test > uses php5 as the example, so that carried over to

Bug#951442: debian-security-support: Please allow to exclude specific packages from the check

2020-02-20 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Holger Levsen wrote on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 00:26 +00:00: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 07:35:39PM +, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > > & patches welcome. > > Here you go, against current git: > > wheeehoo, very nice. > Thanks for the review! > just two comments: > > > +write_file ($list_limited,

Bug#951442: debian-security-support: Please allow to exclude specific packages from the check

2020-02-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Daniel, On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 07:35:39PM +, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > & patches welcome. > Here you go, against current git: wheeehoo, very nice. just two comments: > +write_file ($list_limited, <<__EOS__); > +php5See README.Debian.security for the PHP security policy >

Bug#951442: debian-security-support: Please allow to exclude specific packages from the check

2020-02-16 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Controls: tags -1 confirmed patch Holger Levsen wrote on Sun, 16 Feb 2020 18:29 +: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 04:12:46PM +, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > [...] Thus, in effect, it would let the admin "whitelist" > > known issues, so only new ones would be printed. > > > > Would this make

Bug#951442: debian-security-support: Please allow to exclude specific packages from the check

2020-02-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Daniel, thanks for your bug report. On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 04:12:46PM +, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > [...] Thus, in effect, it would let the admin "whitelist" > known issues, so only new ones would be printed. > > Would this make sense? yes. & patches welcome. -- cheers, Holger

Bug#951442: debian-security-support: Please allow to exclude specific packages from the check

2020-02-16 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Package: debian-security-support Version: 2019.12.12~deb10u1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Two things: 1. I have installed binutils, which is Build-Essential and has limited security support (#948634). 2. I use «chronic -e sh -c