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add mechanism to automatically unclaim entries in dla-needed.txt

Antoine Beaupré requested to merge anarcat/security-tracker:unclaim into master

We had a discussion inside the LTS team to deal with work allocations, and we concluded it was better to automatically "unclaim" entries after an inactivity delay, to remove the emotional burden of manually unassigning issues from people.

This patchset adds the --quiet and --unclaim parameters to allow the bin/review-update-needed script to operate changes on the file automatically. It is designed to be ran as such:

bin/review-update-needed --lts --quiet --unclaim 604800

If the humanfriendly package is installed, this can be done as well:

bin/review-update-needed --lts --quiet --unclaim 1w

Then the result needs to be committed and pushed. That's the part I'm less sure of. It seems to me it should be running automatically, like other security-tracker cronjobs (on soriano.debian.org?), but I'm not sure how that's supposed to work. It would of course require a pull/commit/push cycle around the job and should be run daily.

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