Hello Moritz,

On Wed, 09 Mar 2016, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> (This is a first high level view, the exact requirements can be hashed
> out later.)

It would be good to go a bit into more details now.

> It would be great to have a simple (single command) method to simplify
> testing security updates. Right now these need to copied manually to
> the respective test hosts. If it's not available via apt, this is a
> problem for many people since they are unable to find out which binary
> packages are installed and how to update them via dpkg.
> 
> There should be a method to allow
> - publishing a public security issue to a permanent staging repository
>   ala jessie-security-staging, which people can keep in their apt source
> 
> - publishing an non-public security issue to a protected apt
>   repository to simplify testing for members of the security team

Are you only asking for two repositories that can be targetted with
dput? Or are you asking for more?

Do you have any idea of how the authentication would work for the
non-public repository?

Cheers,
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