[arch-general] Arch-Sheriff - A script to match NetBSD vulnerability database against Arch Linux packages

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Hugo Doria <hugodoria at gmail.com> wrote:
> The idea now is to create a way to notify a package maintainer about
> the vulnerability and add a way to mark it as fixed in Arch. We also
> want to create a login so the maintainers can mark all the
> vulnerabilities that they fixed and a rss feed.
>
> Arch-Sheriff is still experimental and there are some things that
> needs to be fixed. But i think that you guys can see what we pretend
> and where we are going. :)
>
> And, please, tell me what you think about this. Any suggestion is welcome.

Very nice. Being python and all, we might be able to incorporate this
into the Arch website and use that package database. Is there anyway
you can sort the table by package name (or better yet, just add a
little JS sorter script in there so people can sort by any column they
want)?

-Dan