Bug#1040914: dev-ref: update best practices around security (Re: Securing Debian Manual too old?)

"Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas" <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:16:08 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.policy
Message-ID	<DHYBVBE4V1FA.3LYX33WKEY5GI__12742.7692686737$1776723447$gmane$org@debian.org>

hi Holger,

> It's also packaged as src:harden-doc and probably stick around in
> case someone wants to improve it going forward.

it's been removed from stable, as too stale to be useful
(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1053602)

> and unsure what to do now, as I'd like to keep the anchor and chapter, so
> just dropping this would be wrong. Help welcome.

how about we just link to https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening for packaging
hardening instead?

we could also keep the "securing debian manual" link, with a big fat caveat
about staleness, but if it's not good enough for a stable release then I don't
see the reason to keep it.

thanks,
serafi

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