[Secure-testing-team] [patch 0/3] Syntax tweaks for data/CAN/list

Moritz Muehlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Sun Sep 11 21:22:05 UTC 2005


Florian Weimer wrote:
> > Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> The following patches correct syntax anomalies in the data/CAN/list
> >> file.  These were uncovered by processing the file with a more
> >> restrictive parser.
> >
> > These look good. Is this parser publicly available?
> 
> Probably after this weekend.  It will be a Python module--hope you
> don't mind.

Python is the preferred language, at least for me.

If you want to improve the syntactical quality of the entries in a "proactive"
manner, please contribute a comfortable Emacs minor mode :-)
 
> >> The patches for HELP and DONE replace these tags with the TODO tag.  Do
> >> not apply them if you want to keep these tags, but I'd prefer them to
> >> go away.
> >
> > HELP looks fine, but DONE is not useful:
> > If a checked vulnerability turned out to be a vulnerability it is tracked as 
> > - foo x.y-z (bug #gamma; medium)
> > if it's not affected it is tracked as
> > - foo not-affected (bug #gamma; medium)
> 
> I fail to see how your comment applies to my patch. 8-)

Nevermind, I misread this. I thought I wanted to introduce "DONE:".

Cheers,
        Moritz




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