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

"Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas" <[email protected]> Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:38:36 +0200

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tags 1040914 + patch
thanks

On Tue Apr 21, 2026 at 12:16 AM CEST, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote:
> 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?

please find patch attached.

0001-best-pkging-practices-link-to-w.d.o-Hardening-rather.patch (text/x-patch, 1.2 KB)

From 6b92880d51be9634f1c798099ba70632919f1f2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas" <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:32:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] best-pkging-practices: link to w.d.o/Hardening rather than an
 obsolete security manual. Closes: #1040914

---
 source/best-pkging-practices.rst | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/source/best-pkging-practices.rst b/source/best-pkging-practices.rst
index 84b7a55..f861a67 100644
--- a/source/best-pkging-practices.rst
+++ b/source/best-pkging-practices.rst
@@ -532,10 +532,8 @@ is good news!
 Best practices around security
 ================================================================================================================================
 
-A set of suggestions and links to other reference documents around
-security aspects for packaging can be found at the `Developer's Best
-Practices for OS Security chapter inside the Securing Debian Manual
-<https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-manual/ch09.en.html>`__.
+A set of security suggestions related to packaging can be found at
+https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening.
 
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