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regarding dev-ref: update best practices around security (Re: Securing Debian
Manual too old?)
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hi,
On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 10:46:20PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > I found the Securing Debian Manual
> > (https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-manual/index.en.html).
> > This version is from 2017.
>
> This document is in fact too outdated and not in a shape we should
> prominently present it on the Debian website, thanks for flagging it.
> It even predates systemd and no mention of it at all...
>
> Can you please "reportbug www.debian.org" asking to remove it from the
> website?
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.en.html#best-practices-around-security
currently contains this text:
<quote>
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>`__.
</quote>
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.
> It's also packaged as src:harden-doc and probably stick around in
> case someone wants to improve it going forward.
I'm not even sure this is useful to keep around. :/
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Source: developers-reference
Source-Version: 14.6
Done: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
developers-reference, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:31:14 +0200
Source: developers-reference
Architecture: source
Version: 14.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Developers Reference Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Holger Levsen <[email protected]>
Closes: 253511 1040704 1040914
Changes:
developers-reference (14.6) unstable; urgency=medium
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[ Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas ]
* best-pkging-practices: link to wiki.d.o/Hardening rather than an obsolete
security manual. Closes: #1040914.
* best-pkging-practices, pkgs: add basic guidelines on package names.
Closes: #253511.
* pkgs, resources: document PTS email subscriptions. Closes: #1040704.
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[ Holger Wansing ]
* Create clickable manpages links.
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[ Holger Levsen ]
* Add lintian-overrides for
package-contains-documentation-outside-usr-share-doc for all binary
packages as we have been shipping documentation in
/usr/share/developers-reference/ since forever.
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