Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] A new GLSA schema

[Sam James]

> On 11 Nov 2022, at 22:40, Sam James <sam@g.o> wrote:
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>> On 11 Nov 2022, at 22:06, Gordon Pettey <petteyg359@×××××.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 6:27 PM John Helmert III <ajak@g.o> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 09:49:27PM +0100, Jonas Stein wrote:
>>> On 10/11/2022 03:27, John Helmert III wrote:
>>>> The first GLSA in glsa.git is GLSA-200310-03, the third GLSA of
>>>> October 2003. It used roughly the same format of the GLSAs we release
>>>> today, in 2022, making that format almost as old as me.
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>>> IFF we change the format, we should not invent a new standard [1] but
>>> use existing one like CSAF [2]
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>>> [1] https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png
>>> [2] https://oasis-open.github.io/csaf-documentation/
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>> We're not inventing a new "standard", we're upgrading the format we use
>> to distribute GLSAs.
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>> Standard, format, semantics. You are producing a new schema in a field where at least one usable (and already-improved?) schema exists. NIH?
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> Can you point to a format which would support using our ebuild operators
> & syntax rather than making a (very) vague suggestion?
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> See also ajak's point about being the one to implement it, in lieu
> of volunteers.

Oh I see, I'd missed the actual link to CSAF, sorry.

I'll take a look. It's not clear to me yet if this is going to be a good
fit for distributions though, as we're not a normal "vendor".

Are you aware of any other Linux distros using this?