Hi, During my last front-desk week I noticed that we tend to miss or delay some buster security updates, in particular those that come in point releases, and a few batches of minor postponed fixes. See for instance, 'dpdk' [1] or 'mailman' [2].
Attached is a patch to 'bin/lts-cve-triage.py' to help exhibit those updates so we schedule them in dla-needed.txt. This includes fixes from stable/oldstable point releases or past DSAs, but excludes issues explicitly ignored, and old fixes from back when buster was unstable. The current output is manageable (40-50 packages), and I plan to trim it further down by properly tagging <ignored> some no-dsa issues that are not meant to be fixed in stretch (see e.g. 'ark' [3]), and tagging <end-of-life> a few others (e.g. 'node-*'). At this point front-desk can proceed as usual using the enhanced 'lts-cve-triage.py' output. Front-desk may need to use 'no-dsa' sparingly in the future, in favor of its 'postponed' and 'ignored' sub-states [4], so as to better help the tool. What do you think? Cheers! Sylvain Beucler Debian LTS Team [1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/dpdk [2] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mailman [3] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/ark [4] https://security-team.debian.org/security_tracker.html#issues-not-warranting-a-security-advisory