[Debtags-devel] Re: Updating scanners and filters in Debian stable (3.1)

[Thaddeus H. Black]

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I mean to post the following to debian-devel.
As far as I can tell, the post is neutral or
helpful to the Debtags effort, but if
unexpectedly harmful, please advise.

The subthread on debian-devel regards the
prospect of using Debian's security
infrastructure to support orderly post-release
data updates for certain specific kinds of
packages.

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Michael Banck wrote,

> ... If the data is limited to binary-all
> packages, ...

Exactly.  This is the infrastructure I would
have used, had it been available for sarge: the
binary-all data update.

> ... the amount of packages which are affected
> by this is quite narrow ...

True.

If and when policy is written hereto, let the
policy writers please observe that---besides
virus scanners, spam filters and the like---one
further narrow class of packages want
post-release binary-all data updates.  These are
the few packages whose data depend on the
contents of release itself.  They are no
security packages, but they do require more or
less similar post-release support.

Debram-data is a present example of the rare
type.  I suspect that one or two other packages
of this kind might emerge from the Debtags
project.  For further understanding, see [1]
and [2].

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Thaddeus H. Black
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1. http://debtags.alioth.debian.org
2. debram(1)

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