[Demi-devel] Screen shots

[Andrew Pollock]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 03:34:59PM -0500, John Morrissey wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:46:11AM +1100, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > Do you have an Alioth username already? If so, let me know what it is, and
> > I'll figure out how to add you to the project.
> 
> I just registered; I'm jwm-guest (I presume the -guest suffix is for
> non-DDs?)

Probably. I've added you.
 
> I've updated the code to support fetching /var/lib/dpkg/status via SSH; it's
> parsing it and updating the existing SQL tables with the package
> information. I'm starting to ready it for "release" - hopefully I'll have
> some basic packaging ready in a week or two.
> 
> > The biggest issue I've had is finding a way to correlate the DSAs with
> > packages.
> 
> The RDF feed from the Security Team doesn't have fields for version numbers,
> so right now, I'm just parsing the package name from the DSA title and
> flagging any out-of-date packages with that name as DSA-affected.
> Eventually, it would be nice to contact the Security Team to see if they
> could add version numbers as RDF fields.
> 

I've had a chat to Matt Zimmerman in the past regarding this, but I didn't
get very far. The Security Team is just too busy.

regards

Andrew

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