[CentOS] CentOS advisories for 8 release

Wed Dec 16 21:46:33 UTC 2020
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 12/16/20 3:28 PM, Olivier Bonhomme wrote:
>> Hi Olivier,
>>
>> this question got several answers. Since C8 was release updates on
>> announces ML are not available because the tool that provides
>> notification does not work with the new tool that is used to build
>> packages.
>>
>> Actually I use RHEL advisory, but this require a RH account (not
>> subscription).
>>
>> I asked some days ago and I got this answer:
>>
>> Start Quote:
>>
>> As I understand some kind of mapping must be implemented
>> for indexcode+gitcommitid beetween CentOS and RH ...
>>
>> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2020-August/351263.html
>>
>> End Quote:
>>
>> So seems that something boils in the pot. We must only wait.
>>
>> My 2 Cents
>>
> 
> Hello Alessandro,
> 
> Thanks for your answer. Actually my question was about more 8-Stream.
> Sorry. I think my message was not clear.
> 
> I knew that for CentOS 8, we have to wait but it was before the
> transition between 8 and stream.
> 
> So I'm now actually worried for the future. I think it's important to
> have security advisories for a distribution. All the main distributions
> have a security team and I always found that it was a lack for CentOS
> even if of course we could use the RedHat advisories.
> 
> CentOS Stream is a big change and something very different so I would
> love to know if advisoires publications will be part of that new project.
> 

I doubt very seriously that there will be announcements for security
issues.  At least I know of no plans to do so for Stream.