Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:58:18PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: hello (6.6-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. - Fixes a buffer overflow in excessively long greetings (CVE-2038-001) -- Simon McVittie s...@debian.org Tue, April 1, 2038 09:00:00 + (I

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-26 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-02-26, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: If the developments on changelog parsing introduce new requirements, in particular limitations on post-upload corrections, I strongly recommend to document this in our Policy. Post-upload corrections? Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-26 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 at 11:21:08 +, Philipp Kern wrote: Post-upload corrections? I assume Charles refers to this practice: imagine I maintained hello, and uploaded upstream release 6.6 without initially realising that it contained a security fix: hello (6.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:25:37PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: UDD is the wrong approach. And also, ever looked at its db layout? Could you elaborate? UDD sprung to mind for me too. I'd like to know why it doesn't fit for this use-case. I'd also be curious in an armchair-sense to know

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-25 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-02-24, Joerg Jaspert jo...@debian.org wrote: Anyways, the thing is - data should be gathered where it belongs to (and is processed anyways). changelogs and other similar data actually are something the archive needs to process, so storage is easy. Things like UDD should not generate

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-25 Thread Guido Günther
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:39:45PM +0100, Luca Falavigna wrote: Hi, FTP team and I are currently writing a new feature in dak which will collect changelog entries and store them in projectb, to be later used for other purposes (e.g. to write point release changelogs, see [1]). Collecting

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:39:40AM +, Philipp Kern a écrit : On 2010-02-24, Joerg Jaspert jo...@debian.org wrote: Anyways, the thing is - data should be gathered where it belongs to (and is processed anyways). changelogs and other similar data actually are something the archive needs to

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
FTP team and I are currently writing a new feature in dak which will collect changelog entries and store them in projectb, to be later used for other purposes (e.g. to write point release changelogs, see [1]). Isn't this why we have UDD? UDD is the wrong approach. And also, ever looked at its

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/02/10 at 20:19 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: FTP team and I are currently writing a new feature in dak which will collect changelog entries and store them in projectb, to be later used for other purposes (e.g. to write point release changelogs, see [1]). Isn't this why we have UDD?

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:39:45PM +0100, Luca Falavigna wrote: Hi, FTP team and I are currently writing a new feature in dak which will collect changelog entries and store them in projectb, to be later used for other purposes (e.g. to write point release changelogs, see [1]). Isn't this

Re: [RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Luca Falavigna | Can you imagine a useful thing that is worth having every entry in | projectb? If so, here's your chance :) Searching for CVEs springs to mind. (You can have one which only affects the version in unstable, in which case it would never hit a policy queue.) -- Tollef Fog

[RFC] Collecting changelog entries in projectb

2010-02-01 Thread Luca Falavigna
Hi, FTP team and I are currently writing a new feature in dak which will collect changelog entries and store them in projectb, to be later used for other purposes (e.g. to write point release changelogs, see [1]). Collecting every changelog entry takes lots of space (the whole past adds up to