Re: Ideas for better development processes when maintaining hundreds of packages

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:51:29PM +0100, Dan Čermák wrote:
> "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > * CVE bugs should autoclose when a package is rebased
> 
> I don't think this is a good idea as you should actually check that this
> update fixes the CVE.

If we collect the data that version X fixes CVE Y, then
the bug can be closed automatically when version >= X
is built, and it's entirely as safe as today.  We don't
tell packagers they must try to actively exploit their
new build to ensure the exploit has been fixed (at least
I hope we don't ...)

Collecting that data should be possible.  I have suggested that
we work with GNU and other Linux distros to start encouraging
upstreams to provide this data mechanically.

Rich.

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