Removing the updated vulnerability listings [LWN.net]

Removing the updated vulnerability listings

Posted Mar 13, 2008 10:16 UTC (Thu) by bangert (subscriber, #28342)
Parent article: Removing the updated vulnerability listings

when clicking on the comment link, i was expecting a huge amount of 
backlash to this proposal. i guess not...

to me, the security page, including the updated section, is definitively 
an important part of the weekly readings on lwn.net... but it could be a 
lot more usefull, if it showed its information more clearly (ie. show 
(only) what has changed).

BTW is there an API which exposes the security database, so that others 
can easily access this information? it would make benchmarking the 
different security teams really easy :)

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Removing the updated vulnerability listings

Posted Mar 13, 2008 11:12 UTC (Thu) by kenmoffat (subscriber, #4807) [Link]

I'm another person who was expecting a backlash.  Or, perhaps, "the only other person who was
expecting a backlash".

If the information could be kept elsewhere, with a simple link, that would be great.
Sometimes, I've got enough time to look  at the vulnerabilities several times a week.  Other
times are different.

Mostly, I don't need the detailed information (fixed in x.y.z is usually easy enough), but
from time to time I need to search through the distro updates to find the backport they
applied to an earlier version.