Re: heads up: DLA should now be published on the website

Antoine Beaupré <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.lts,gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2019-02-21 18:18:06, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Antoine,
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 04:10:47PM -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>> But my little finger tells me there are many DLAs still missing from the
>> website. So even if/when the above MR does get merged, more entries will
>> be missing. So someone will need to make sure to run the check script to
>> make sure no entries are missing regularly, see also:
>> https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/cron/merge_requests/1
>
> I've looked at this script now, it works nicely, just our results are
> not so good yet:
>
> ~/Projects/debian-www/webwml$ ../cron/parts/10-check-advisories 2>&1 |wc -l
> 314
> ~/Projects/debian-www/webwml$ ../cron/parts/10-check-advisories --mode DLA 2>&1 |wc -l
> 1762
> ~/Projects/debian-www/webwml$ ../cron/parts/10-check-advisories --mode DLA 2>&1 | head -10
> ERROR: .data or .wml file missing for DLA 1685-1
> ERROR: .data or .wml file missing for DLA 1684-1
> ERROR: .data or .wml file missing for DLA 1683-1
> ERROR: .data or .wml file missing for DLA 1660-2
> ERROR: .data or .wml file missing for DLA 1682-1
> ERROR: .data or .wml file missing for DLA 1681-1
> ERROR: .data or .wml file missing for DLA 1680-1
> ERROR: .data or .wml file missing for DLA 1679-1
> ERROR: .data or .wml file missing for DLA 1678-1
> ERROR: .data or .wml file missing for DLA 1677-1
> debian-work:~/Projects/debian-www/webwml$ 
>
> -> this script is incorrect/broken for DLAs it seems, as 
> https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ does list the DLAs 1677-1681,
> just DLAs 1682-1685 are missing. And they are called DLA-1234 there,
> not "DLA 1234-1"...

Weird. Is your local checkout up to date? What if you run in debug mode?

> Also, if this merge request would be merged, it would just run it in
> normal, DSA, mode. Do you have a suggestion how to run it in DLA mode?

We could simply change the default here:

    parser.add_argument('--mode', default='DSA', choices=('DSA', 'DLA'),
                        help='which sort of advisory to check (default: %(default)s)')  # noqa: E501

a.
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