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12 February 2026

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: cross building, rebootstrap updates, Refresh of the patch tagging guidelines and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)

Debian Contributions: 2026-01 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services.

cross building, by Helmut Grohne In version 1.10.1, Meson merged a patch to make it call the correct g-ir-scanner by default thanks to Eli Schwarz. This problem affected more than 130 source packages. Helmut retried building them all and filed 69 patches as a result. A significant portion of those packages require another Meson change to call the correct vapigen. Another notable change is converting gnu-efi to multiarch, which ended up requiring changes to a number of other packages. Since Aurelien dropped the libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev, this transition now is mostly complete and has resulted in most of the Perl ecosystem correctly expressing perl-xs-dev dependencies needed for cross building. It is these infrastructure changes affecting several client packages that this work targets. As a result of this continued work, about 66% of Debian s source packages now have satisfiable cross Build-Depends in unstable and about 10000 (55%) actually can be cross built. There are now more than 500 open bug reports affecting more than 2000 packages most of which carry patches.

rebootstrap, by Helmut Grohne Maintaining architecture cross-bootstrap requires continued effort for adapting to archive changes such as glib2.0 dropping a build profile or an e2fsprogs FTBFS. Beyond those generic problems, architecture-specific problems with e.g. musl-linux-any or sparc may arise. While all these changes move things forward on the surface, the bootstrap tooling has become a growing pile of patches. Helmut managed to upstream two changes to glibc for reducing its Build-Depends in the stage2 build profile and thanks Aurelien Jarno.

Refresh of the patch tagging guidelines, by Rapha l Hertzog Debian Enhancement Proposal #3 (DEP-3) is named Patch Tagging Guidelines and standardizes meta-information that Debian contributors can put in patches included in Debian source packages. With the feedback received over the years, and with the change in the package management landscape, the need to refresh those guidelines became evident. As the initial driver of that DEP, I spent a good day reviewing all the feedback (that I kept in a folder) and producing a new version of the document. The changes aim to give more weight to the syntax that is compatible with git format-patch s output, and also to clarify the expected uses and meanings of a couple of fields, including some algorithm that parsers should follow to define the state of the patch. After the announcement of the new draft on debian-devel, the revised DEP-3 received a significant number of comments that I still have to process.

Miscellaneous contributions
  • Helmut uploaded debvm making it work with unstable as a target distribution again.
  • Helmut modernized the code base backing dedup.debian.net significantly expanding the support for type checking.
  • Helmut fixed the multiarch hinter once more given feedback from Fabian Gr nbichler.
  • Helmut worked on migrating the rocblas package to forky.
  • Rapha l fixed RC bug #1111812 in publican and did some maintenance for tracker.debian.org.
  • Carles added support in the festival Debian package for systemd socket activation and systemd service and socket units. Adapted the patch for upstream and created a merge request (also fixed a MacOS X building system error while working on it). Updated Orca Wiki documentation regarding festival. Discussed a 2007 bug/feature in festival which allowed having a local shell and that the new systemd socket activation has the same code path.
  • Carles using po-debconf-manager worked on Catalan translations: 7 reviewed and sent; 5 follow ups, 5 deleted packages.
  • Carles made some po-debconf-manager changes: now it attaches the translation file on follow ups, fixed bullseye compatibility issues.
  • Carles reviewed a new Catalan apt translation.
  • Carles investigated and reported a lxhotkey bug and sent a patch for the abcde package.
  • Carles made minor updates for Debian Wiki for different pages (lxde for dead keys, Ripping with abcde troubleshooting, VirtualBox troubleshooting).
  • Stefano renamed build-details.json in Python 3.14 to fix multiarch coinstallability.
  • Stefano audited the tooling and ignore lists for checking the contents of the python3.X-minimal packages, finding and fixing some issues in the process.
  • Stefano made a few uploads of python3-defaults and dh-python in support of Python 3.14-as-default in Ubuntu. Also investigated the risk of ignoring byte-compilation failures by default, and started down the road of implementing this.
  • Stefano did some sysadmin work on debian.social infrastructure.
  • Stefano and Santiago worked on preparations for DebConf 26. Especially to help the local team on opening the registration, and reviewing the budget to be presented for approval.
  • Stefano uploaded routine updates of python-virtualenv and python-flexmock.
  • Antonio collaborated with DSA on enabling a new proxy for salsa to prevent scrapers from taking the service down.
  • Antonio did miscellaneous salsa administrative tasks.
  • Antonio fixed a few Ruby packages towards the Ruby 3.4 transition.
  • Antonio started work on planned improvements to the DebConf registration system.
  • Santiago prepared unstable updates for the latest upstream versions of knot-dns and knot-resolver. The authoritative DNS server and DNS resolver software developed by CZ.NIC. It is worth highlighting that, given the separation of functionality compared to other implementations, knot-dns and knot-resolver are also less complex software, which results in advantages in terms of security: only three CVEs have been reported for knot-dns since 2011).
  • Santiago made some routine reviews of merge requests proposed for the Salsa CI s pipeline. E.g. a proposal to fix how sbuild chooses the chroot when building a package for experimental.
  • Colin fixed lots of Python packages to handle Python 3.14 and to avoid using the deprecated pkg_resources module.
  • Colin added forky support to the images used in Salsa CI pipelines.
  • Colin began working on getting a release candidate of groff 1.24.0 (the first upstream release since mid-2023, so a very large set of changes) into experimental.
  • Lucas kept working on the preparation for Ruby 3.4 transition. Some packages fixed (support build against Ruby 3.3 and 3.4): ruby-rbpdf, jekyll, origami-pdf, ruby-kdl, ruby-twitter, ruby-twitter-text, ruby-globalid.
  • Lucas supported some potential mentors in the Google Summer of Code 26 program to submit their projects.
  • Anupa worked on the point release announcements for Debian 12.13 and 13.3 from the Debian publicity team side.
  • Anupa attended the publicity team meeting to discuss the team activities and to plan an online sprint in February.
  • Anupa attended meetings with the Debian India team to plan and coordinate the MinDebConf Kanpur and sent out related Micronews.
  • Emilio coordinated various transitions and helped get rid of llvm-toolchain-17 from sid.

30 January 2026

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in January 2026

Here s my monthly but brief update about the activities I ve done in the FOSS world.

Debian
Whilst I didn t get a chance to do much, here are still a few things that I worked on:
  • A few discussions with the new DFSG team, et al.
  • Assited a few folks in getting their patches submitted via Salsa.
  • Reviewing pyenv MR for Ujjwal.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.

Ubuntu
I joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time back in February 2021. Whilst I can t give a full, detailed list of things I did, here s a quick TL;DR of what I did:
  • Successfully released Resolute Snapshot 3!
    • This one was also done without the ISO tracker and cdimage access.
    • We also worked very hard to build and promote all the image in due time.
  • Worked further on the whole artifact signing story for cdimage.
  • Assisted a bunch of folks with my Archive Admin and Release team hats to:
    • Helped in EOL ing Plucky.
    • Starting to help with the upcoming 24.04.4 release.
  • With that, the mid-cycle sprints are around the corner, so quite busy preparing for that.

Debian (E)LTS
This month I have worked 59 hours on Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and on its sister Extended LTS project and did the following things:

Released Security Updates

Work in Progress
  • knot-resolver: Affected by CVE-2023-26249, CVE-2023-46317, and CVE-2022-40188, leading to Denial of Service.
  • ruby-rack: There were multiple vulnerabilities reported in Rack, leading to DoS (memory exhaustion) and proxy bypass.
    • [ELTS]: After completing the work for LTS myself, Bastien picked it up for ELTS and reached out about an upstream regression and we ve been doing some exchanges. Bastien has done most of the work backporting the patches but needs a review and help backporting CVE-2025-61771. Haven t made much progress since last month and will carry it over.
  • node-lodash: Affected by CVE-2025-13465, lrototype pollution in baseUnset function.
    • [stable]: The patch for trixie and bookworm are ready but haven t been uploaded yet as I d like for the unstable upload to settle a bit before I proceed with stable uploads.
    • [LTS]: The bullseye upload will follow once the stable uploads are in and ACK d by the SRMs.
  • xrdp: Affected by CVE-2025-68670, leading to a stack-based buffer overflow.

Other Activities
  • [ELTS] Helped Bastien Roucaries debug a tomcat9 regression for buster.
    • I spent quite a lot of time trying to help Bastien (with Markus and Santiago involved via mail thread) by reproducing the regression that the user(s) reported.
    • I also helped suggest a path forward by vendoring everything, which I was then requested to also help perform.
    • Whilst doing that, I noticed circular dependency hellhole and suggested another path forward by backporting bnd and its dependencies as separate NEW packages.
    • Bastien liked the idea and is going to work on that but preferred to revert the update to remedy the immediate regressions reported. I further helped him in reviewing his update. This conversation happened on #debian-elts IRC channel.
  • [LTS] Assisted Ben Hutchings with his question about the next possible steps with a plausible libvirt regression caused by the Linux kernel update. This was a thread on debian-lts@ mailing list.
  • [LTS] Attended the monthly LTS meeting on IRC. Summary here.
  • [E/LTS] Monitored discussions on mailing lists, IRC, and all the documentation updates.
Until next time.
:wq for today.

16 January 2026

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, December 2025 (by Santiago Ruano Rinc n)

The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian s Debian LTS offering] (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for December.

Activity summary During the month of December, 18 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS (links to individual contributor reports are located below). The team released 41 DLAs fixing 252 CVEs. The team currently focuses on preparing security updates for Debian 11 bullseye , but also looks for contributing with updates for Debian 12 bookworm , Debian 13 trixie and even Debian unstable. Notable security updates:
  • libsoup2.4 (DLA-4398-1), prepared by Andreas Henrikson, fixing several vulnerabilities.
  • glib2.0 (DLA-4412-1), published by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, addressing multiple issues.
  • lasso (DLA-4397-1), prepared by Sylvain Beucler, addressing multiple issues, including a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2025-47151)
  • roundcube (DLA 4415-1), prepared by Guilhem Moulin, fixing a cross-site-scripting (XSS) (CVE-2025-68461) and an information disclosure (CVE-2025-68460) vulnerabilities
  • mediawiki (DLA 4428-1), published by Guilhem, fixing multiple vulnerabilities could lead to information disclosure, denial of service or privilege escalation.
  • While the DLA has not been published yet, Charles Henrique Melara proposed upstream fixes for seven CVEs in ffmpeg: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/pulls/21275.
  • python-apt (DLA 4408-1), prepared by Utkarsh Gupta, in coordination with the Debian Security Team and Julian Andres Klode, the apt s maintainer.
  • libpng1.6 (DLA-4396-1), published by Tobias Frost, completing the work started the previous month.
Notable non-security updates:
  • tzdata (DLA-4403-1), prepared by Emilio, including the latest changes to the leap second list and its expiry date, which was set for the end of December.
Contributions from outside the LTS Team:
  • Christoph Berg, co-maintainer of PostgreSQL in Debian, prepared a postgresql-13 update, released as DLA-4420-1
The LTS Team has also contributed with updates to the latest Debian releases:

Individual Debian LTS contributor reports

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13 January 2026

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: dh-python development, Python 3.14 and Ruby 3.4 transitions, Surviving scraper traffic in Debian CI and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)

Debian Contributions: 2025-12 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services.

dh-python development, by Stefano Rivera In Debian we build our Python packages with the help of a debhelper-compatible tool, dh-python. Before starting the 3.14 transition (that would rebuild many packages) we landed some updates to dh-python to fix bugs and add features. This started a month of attention on dh-python, iterating through several bug fixes, and a couple of unfortunate regressions. dh-python is used by almost all packages containing Python (over 5000). Most of these are very simple, but some are complex and use dh-python in unexpected ways. It s hard to avoid almost any change (including obvious bug fixes) from causing some unexpected knock-on behaviour. There is a fair amount of complexity in dh-python, and some rather clever code, which can make it tricky to work on. All of this means that good QA is important. Stefano spent some time adding type annotations and specialized types to make it easier to see what the code is doing and catch mistakes. This has already made work on dh-python easier. Now that Debusine has built-in repositories and debdiff support, Stefano could quickly test the effects of changes on many other packages. After each big change, he could upload dh-python to a repository, rebuild e.g. 50 Python packages with it, and see what differences appeared in the output. Reviewing the diffs is still a manual process, but can be improved. Stefano did a small test on what it would take to replace direct setuptools setup.py calls with PEP-517 (pyproject-style) builds. There is more work to do here.

Python 3.14 transition, by Stefano Rivera (et al.) In December the transition to add Python 3.14 as a supported version started in Debian unstable. To do this, we update the list of supported versions in python3-defaults, and then start rebuilding modules with C extensions from the leaves inwards. This had already been tested in a PPA and Ubuntu, so many of the biggest blocking compatibility issues with 3.14 had already been found and fixed. But there are always new issues to discover. Thanks to a number of people in the Debian Python team, we got through the first bit of the transition fairly quickly. There are still a number of open bugs that need attention and many failed tests blocking migration to testing. Python 3.14.1 released just after we started the transition, and very soon after, a follow-up 3.14.2 release came out to address a regression. We ran into another regression in Python 3.14.2.

Ruby 3.4 transition, by Lucas Kanashiro (et al.) The Debian Ruby team just started the preparation to move the default Ruby interpreter version to 3.4. At the moment, ruby3.4 source package is already available in experimental, also ruby-defaults added support to Ruby 3.4. Lucas rebuilt all reverse dependencies against this new version of the interpreter and published the results here. Lucas also reached out to some stakeholders to coordinate the work. Next steps are: 1) announcing the results to the whole team and asking for help to fix packages failing to build against the new interpreter; 2) file bugs against packages FTBFSing against Ruby 3.4 which are not fixed yet; 3) once we have a low number of build failures against Ruby 3.4, ask the Debian Release team to start the transition in unstable.

Surviving scraper traffic in Debian CI, by Antonio Terceiro Like most of the open web, Debian Continuous Integration has been struggling for a while to keep up with the insatiable hunger from data scrapers everywhere. Solving this involved a lot of trial and error; the final result seems to be stable, and consists of two parts. First, all Debian CI data pages, except the direct links to test log files (such as those provided by the Release Team s testing migration excuses), now require users to be authenticated before being accessed. This means that the Debian CI data is no longer publicly browseable, which is a bit sad. However, this is where we are now. Additionally, there is now a fail2ban powered firewall-level access limitation for clients that display an abusive access pattern. This went through several iterations, with some of them unfortunately blocking legitimate Debian contributors, but the current state seems to strike a good balance between blocking scrapers and not blocking real users. Please get in touch with the team on the #debci OFTC channel if you are affected by this.

A hybrid dependency solver for crossqa.debian.net, by Helmut Grohne crossqa.debian.net continuously cross builds packages from the Debian archive. Like Debian s native build infrastructure, it uses dose-builddebcheck to determine whether a package s dependencies can be satisfied before attempting a build. About one third of Debian s packages fail this check, so understanding the reasons is key to improving cross building. Unfortunately, dose-builddebcheck stops after reporting the first problem and does not display additional ones. To address this, a greedy solver implemented in Python now examines each build-dependency individually and can report multiple causes. dose-builddebcheck is still used as a fall-back when the greedy solver does not identify any problems. The report for bazel-bootstrap is a lengthy example.

rebootstrap, by Helmut Grohne Due to the changes suggested by Loongson earlier, rebootstrap now adds debhelper to its final installability test and builds a few more packages required for installing it. It also now uses a variant of build-essential that has been marked Multi-Arch: same (see foundational work from last year). This in turn made the use of a non-default GCC version more difficult and required more work to make it work for gcc-16 from experimental. Ongoing archive changes temporarily regressed building fribidi and dash. libselinux and groff have received patches for architecture specific changes and libverto has been NMUed to remove the glib2.0 dependency.

Miscellaneous contributions
  • Stefano did some administrative work on debian.social and debian.net instances and Debian reimbursements.
  • Stefano did routine updates of python-authlib, python-mitogen, xdot.
  • Stefano spent several hours discussing Debian s Python package layout with the PyPA upstream community. Debian has ended up with a very different on-disk installed Python layout than other distributions, and this continues to cause some frustration in many communities that have to have special workarounds to handle it. This ended up impacting cross builds as Helmut discovered.
  • Rapha l set up Debusine workflows for the various backports repositories on debusine.debian.net.
  • Zulip is not yet in Debian (RFP in #800052), but Rapha l helped on the French translation as he is experimenting with that discussion platform.
  • Antonio performed several routine Salsa maintenance tasks, including fixing salsa-nm-sync, the service that synchronizes project members data from LDAP to Salsa, which had been broken since salsa.debian.org was upgraded to trixie .
  • Antonio deployed a new amd64 worker host for Debian CI.
  • Antonio did several DebConf technical and administrative bits, including but adding support for custom check-in/check-out dates in the MiniDebConf registration module, publishing a call for bids for DebConf27.
  • Carles reviewed and submitted 14 Catalan translations using po-debconf-manager.
  • Carles improved po-debconf-manager: added delete-package command, show-information now uses properly formatted output (YAML), it now attaches the translation on the bug reports for which a merge request has been opened too long.
  • Carles investigated why some packages appeared in po-debconf-manager but not in the Debian l10n list. Turns out that some packages had debian/po/templates.pot (appearing in po-debconf-manager) but not the POTFILES.in file as expected. Created a script to find out which packages were in this or similar situation and reported bugs.
  • Carles tested and documented how to set up voices (mbrola and festival) if using Orca speech synthesizer. Commented a few issues and possible improvements in the debian-accessibility list.
  • Helmut sent patches for 48 cross build failures and initiated discussions on how to deal with two non-trivial matters. Besides Python mentioned above, CMake introduced a cmake_pkg_config builtin which is not aware of the host architecture. He also forwarded a Meson patch upstream.
  • Thorsten uploaded a new upstream version of cups to fix a nasty bug that was introduced by the latest security update.
  • Along with many other Python 3.14 fixes, Colin fixed a tricky segfault in python-confluent-kafka after a helpful debugging hint from upstream.
  • Colin upstreamed an improved version of an OpenSSH patch we ve been carrying since 2008 to fix misleading verbose output from scp.
  • Colin used Debusine to coordinate transitions for astroid and pygments, and wrote up the astroid case on his blog.
  • Emilio helped with various transitions, and provided a build fix for opencv for the ffmpeg 8 transition.
  • Emilio tested the GNOME updates for trixie proposed updates (gnome-shell, mutter, glib2.0).
  • Santiago helped to review the status of how to test different build profiles in parallel on the same pipeline, using the test-build-profiles job. This means, for example, to simultaneously test build profiles such as nocheck and nodoc for the same git tree. Finally, Santiago provided MR !685 to fix the documentation.
  • Anupa prepared a bits post for Outreachy interns announcement along with T ssia Cam es Ara jo and worked on publicity team tasks.

30 December 2025

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in December 2025

Here s my monthly but brief update about the activities I ve done in the FOSS world.

Debian
Whilst I didn t get a chance to do much, here are still a few things that I worked on:
  • Prepared security update for wordpress for trixie and bookworm.
  • A few discussions with the new DFSG team, et al.
  • Assited a few folks in getting their patches submitted via Salsa.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.

Ubuntu
I joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time back in February 2021. Whilst I can t give a full, detailed list of things I did, here s a quick TL;DR of what I did:
  • Successfully released Resolute Snapshot 2!
    • This one was also done without the ISO tracker and cdimage access.
    • I think this one went rather smooth. Let s see what we re able to do for snapshot 3.
  • Worked on removing GPG keys from the cdimage instance. That took a while, whew!
  • Assisted a bunch of folks with my Archive Admin and Release team hats to:
    • review NEW packages for Ubuntu Studio.
    • remove old binaries that are stalling transition and/or migration.
    • LTS requalification of Ubuntu flavours.
    • bootstrapping dotnet-10 packages for Stable Release Updates.
  • With that, we ve entered the EOY break. :)
    • I was anyway on vacation for majority of this month. ;)

Debian (E)LTS
This month I have worked 72 hours on Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and on its sister Extended LTS project and did the following things:

Released Security Updates
  • ruby-git: Multiple vulnerabilities leading to command line injection and improper path escaping.
  • ruby-sidekiq: Multiple vulnerabilities leading to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) and Denial of Service in Web UI.
  • python-apt: Vulnerability leading to crash via invalid nullptr dereference in TagSection.keys().
    • [LTS]: Fixed CVE-2025-6966 via 2.2.1.1 for bullseye. This has been released as DLA 4408-1.
    • [ELTS]: Fixed CVE-2025-6966 via 1.8.4.4 for buster and 1.4.4 for stretch. This has been released as ELA 1596-1.
    • All of this was coordinated b/w the Security team and Julian Andres Klode. Julian will take care of the stable uploads.
  • node-url-parse: Vulnerability allowing authorization bypass through specially crafted URL with empty userinfo and no host.
  • wordpress: Multiple vulnerabilities in WordPress core, leading to Sent Data & Cross-site Scripting.
  • usbmuxd: Privilege escalation vulnerability via path traversal in SavePairRecord command.
    • [LTS]: Fixed CVE-2025-66004 via 1.1.1-2+deb11u1 for bullseye. This has been released as DLA 4417-1.
    • [ELTS]: Fixed CVE-2025-66004 via 1.1.1~git20181007.f838cf6-1+deb10u1 for buster and 1.1.0-2+deb9u1 for stretch. This has been released as ELA 1599-1.
    • All of this was coordinated b/w the Security team and Yves-Alexis Perez. Yves will take care of the stable uploads.
  • gst-plugins-good1.0: Multiple vulnerabilities in isomp4 plugin leading to potential out-of-bounds reads and information disclosure.
  • postgresql-13: Multiple vulnerabilities including unauthorized schema statistics creation and integer overflow in libpq allocation calculations.
  • gst-plugins-base1.0: Multiple vulnerabilities in SubRip subtitle parsing leading to potential crashes and buffer issues.

Work in Progress
  • ceph: Affected by CVE-2024-47866, using the argument x-amz-copy-source to put an object and specifying an empty string as its content leads to the RGW daemon crashing, resulting in a DoS attack.
  • knot-resolver: Affected by CVE-2023-26249, CVE-2023-46317, and CVE-2022-40188, leading to Denial of Service.
  • adminer: Affected by CVE-2023-45195 and CVE-2023-45196, leading to SSRF and DoS, respectively.
  • u-boot: Affected by CVE-2025-24857, where boot code access control flaw in U-Boot allowing arbitrary code execution via physical access.
    • [ELTS]: As it s only affected the version in stretch, I ve started the work to find the fixing commits and prepare a backport. Not much progress there, I ll roll it over to January.
  • ruby-rack: There were multiple vulnerabilities reported in Rack, leading to DoS (memory exhaustion) and proxy bypass.
    • [ELTS]: After completing the work for LTS myself, Bastien picked it up for ELTS and reached out about an upstream regression and we ve been doing some exchanges. Bastien has done most of the work backporting the patches but needs a review and help backporting CVE-2025-61771.

Other Activities
  • Frontdesk from 01-12-2025 to 07-12-2025.
    • Auto EOL d a bunch of packages.
    • Marked CVE-2025-12084/python2.7 as end-of-life for bullseye, buster, and stretch.
    • Marked CVE-2025-12084/jython as end-of-life for bullseye.
    • Marked CVE-2025-13992/chromium as end-of-life for bullseye.
    • Marked apache2 CVEs as postponed for bullseye, buster, and stretch.
    • Marked CVE-2025-13654/duc as postponed for bullseye and buster.
    • Marked CVE-2025-32900/kdeconnect as ignored for bullseye.
    • Marked CVE-2025-12084/pypy3 as postponed for bullseye.
    • Marked CVE-2025-14104/util-linux as postponed for bullseye, buster, and stretch.
    • Marked several CVEs for fastdds as postponed for bullseye.
    • Marked several CVEs for pytorch as postponed for bullseye.
    • Marked CVE-2025-2486/edk2 as postponed for bullseye.
    • Marked CVE-2025-6172 7,9 /golang-1.15 as postponed for bullseye.
    • Marked CVE-2025-65637/golang-logrus as postponed for bullseye.
    • Marked CVE-2025-12385/qtdeclarative-opensource-src ,gles as postponed for bullseye, buster, and stretch.
    • Marked TEMP-0000000-D08402/rust-maxminddb as postponed for bullseye.
    • Added the following packages to d,e la-needed.txt:
      • liblivemedia, sogo.
    • During my triage, I had to make the bin/elts-eol script robust to determine the lts_admin repository - did a back and forth with Emilio about this on the list.
    • I sent a gentle reminder to the LTS team about the issues fixed in bullseye but not in bookworm via mailing list: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2025/12/msg00013.html.
  • I claimed php-horde-css-parser to work on CVE-2020-13756 for buster and did almost all the work only to realize that the patch already existed in buster and the changelog confirmed that it was intentionally fixed.
    • After speaking with Andreas Henriksson, we figured that the CVE ID was missed when the ELA was generated and so I fixed that via 87afaaf19ce56123bc9508d9c6cd5360b18114ef and 5621431e84818b4e650ffdce4c456daec0ee4d51 in the ELTS security tracker to reflect the situation.
  • Participated in a thread which I started last month around using Salsa CI for E/LTS packages and if we plan to sunset it in favor of using Debusine. The plan for now is to keep it around as it s still beneficial and Debusine is still in its early phase.
  • Did a lot of back and forth with Helmut about debusine uploads on #debian-elts.
    • While debugging a failure in dcut uploads, I ran into an SSH compatibility issue on deb-master.freexian.com that could be fixed on the server-side. I shared all my findings to Freexian s sysadmin team.
    • A minimal fix on the server side would be one of: 
      PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms -ssh-dss
      or explicitly restricting to modern algorithms, e.g.: 
      PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms
ssh-ed25519,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256
  • Jelly on #debian-lts reported that all my DLA mails had broken GMail s DKIM signature. So I set up sending replies from @debian.org and that seems to have fixed that! \o/
  • [LTS] Attended a rather short monthly LTS meeting on Jitsi. Summary here.
  • [E/LTS] Monitored discussions on mailing lists, IRC, and all the documentation updates.
Until next time.
:wq for today.

16 December 2025

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, November 2025 (by Santiago Ruano Rinc n)

The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian s Debian LTS offering] (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for November.

Activity summary During the month of November, 18 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS (links to individual contributor reports are located below). The team released 33 DLAs fixing 219 CVEs. The LTS Team kept going with the usual cadence of preparing security updates for Debian 11 bullseye , but also for Debian 12 bookworm , Debian 13 trixie and even Debian unstable. As in previous months, we are pleased to say that there have been multiple contributions of LTS uploads by Debian Fellows outside the regular LTS Team. Notable security updates:
  • Guilhem Moulin prepared DLA 4365-1 for unbound, a caching DNS resolver, fixing a cache poisoning vulnerability that could lead to domain hijacking.
  • Another update related to DNS software was made by Andreas Henriksson. Andreas completed the work on bind9, released as DLA 4364-1 to fix cache poisoning and Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerabilities.
  • Chris Lamb released DLA 4374-1 to fix a potential arbitrary code execution vulnerability in pdfminer, a tool for extracting information from PDF documents.
  • Ben Hutchings published a regular security update for the linux 6.1 bullseye backport, as DLA 4379-1.
  • A couple of other important recurrent updates were prepared by Emilio Pozuelo, who handled firefox-esr and thunderbird (in collaboration with Christoph Goehre), published as DLAs DLA 4370-1 and DLA 4372-1, respectively.
Contributions from fellows outside the LTS Team:
  • Thomas Goirand uploaded a bullseye update for keystone and swift
  • Jeremy B cha prepared the bullseye update for gst-plugins-base1.0
  • As mentioned above, Christoph Goehre prepared the bullseye update for thunderbird.
  • Mathias Behrle provided feedback about the tryton-server and tryton-sao vulnerabilities that were disclosed last month, and helped to review the bullseye patches for tryton-server.
Other than the regular LTS updates for bullseye, the LTS Team has also contributed updates to the latest Debian releases:
  • Bastien Roucari s prepared a bookworm update for squid, the web proxy cache server.
  • Carlos Henrique Lima Melara filed a bookworm point update request for gdk-pixbuf to fix CVE-2025-7345, a heap buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  • Daniel Leidert prepared bookworm and trixie updates for r-cran-gh to fix CVE-2025-54956, an issue that may expose user credentials in HTTP responses.
  • Along with the bullseye updates for unbound mentioned above, Guilhem helped to prepare the trixie update for unbound.
  • In collaboration with Lukas M rdian, Tobias Frost prepared trixie and bookworm updates for log4cxx, the C++ port of the logging framework for JAVA.
  • Jochen Sprickerhof prepared a bookworm update for syslog-ng.
  • Utkarsh completed the bookworm update for wordpress, addressing multiple security issues in the popular blogging tool.
Beyond security updates, there has been a significant effort in revamping our documentation, aiming to make the processes more clear and consistent for all the members of the team. This work was mainly carried out by Sylvain, Jochen and Roberto. We would like to express our gratitude to the sponsors for making the Debian LTS project possible. Also, special thanks to the fellows outside the LTS team for their valuable help.

Individual Debian LTS contributor reports

Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

12 December 2025

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Updates about DebConf Video Team Sprint, rebootstrap, SBOM tooling in Debian and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)

Debian Contributions: 2025-11 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services.

DebConf Video Team Sprint The DebConf Video Team records, streams, and publishes talks from DebConf and many miniDebConfs. A lot of the infrastructure development happens during setup for these events, but we also try to organize a sprint once a year to work on infrastructure, when there isn t a DebConf about to happen. Stefano attended the sprint in Herefordshire this year and wrote up a report.

rebootstrap, by Helmut Grohne A number of jobs were stuck in architecture-specific failures. gcc-15 and dpkg still disagree about whether PIE is enabled occasionally and big endian mipsen needed fixes in systemd. Beyond this regular uploads of libxml2 and gcc-15 required fixes and rebasing of pending patches. Earlier, Loongson used rebootstrap to create the initial package set for loong64 and Miao Wang now submitted their changes. Therefore, there is now initial support for suites other than unstable and use with derivatives.

Building the support for Software Bill Of Materials tooling in Debian, by Santiago Ruano Rinc n Vendors of Debian-based products may/should be paying attention to the evolution of different jurisdictions (such as the CRA or updates on CISA s Minimum Elements for a Software Bill of Materials) that require to make available Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) of their products. It is important then to have tools in Debian to make it easier to produce such SBOMs. In this context, Santiago continued the work on packaging libraries related to SBOMs. This includes the packaging of the SPDX python library (python-spdx-tools), and its dependencies rdflib and mkdocs-include-markdown-plugin. System Package Data Exchange (SPDX), defined by ISO/IEC 5962:2021, is an open standard capable of representing systems with software components as SBOMs and other data and security references. SPDX and CycloneDX (whose python library python3-cyclonedx-lib was packaged by prior efforts this year), encompass the two main SBOM standards available today.

Miscellaneous contributions
  • Carles improved po-debconf-manager: added checking status of bug reports automatically via python-debianbts; changed some command line options naming or output based on user feedback; finished refactoring user interaction to rich; codebase is now flake8-compliant; added type safety with mypy.
  • Carles, using po-debconf-manager, created 19 bug reports for translations where the merge requests were pending; reviewed and created merge requests for 4 packages.
  • Carles planned a second version of the tool that detects packages that Recommends or Suggests packages which are not in Debian. He is taking ideas from dumat.
  • Carles submitted a pull request to python-unidiff2 (adapted from the original pull request to python-unidiff). He also started preparing a qnetload update.
  • Stefano did miscellaneous python package updates: mkdocs-macros-plugin, python-confuse, python-pip, python-mitogen.
  • Stefano reviewed a beets upload for a new maintainer who is taking it over.
  • Stefano handled some debian.net infrastructure requests.
  • Stefano updated debian.social infrastructure for the trixie point release.
  • The update broke jitsi.debian.social, Stefano put some time into debugging it and eventually enlisted upstream assistance, who solved the problem!
  • Stefano worked on some patches for Python that help Debian:
    • GH-139914: The main HP PA-RISC support patch for 3.14.
    • GH-141930: We observed an unhelpful error when failing to write a .pyc file during package installation. We may have fixed the problem, and at least made the error better.
    • GH-141011: Ignore missing ifunc support on HP PA-RISC.
  • Stefano spun up a website for hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org.
  • Rapha l reviewed a merge request updating tracker.debian.org to rely on bootstrap
    version 5.
  • Emilio coordinated various transitions.
  • Helmut sent patches for 26 cross build failures.
  • Helmut officially handed over the cleanup of the /usr-move transition.
  • Helmut monitored the transition moving libcrypt-dev out of build-essential and bumped the remaining bugs to rc-severity in coordination with the release team.
  • Helmut updated the Build-Profiles patch for debian-policy incorporating feedback from Sean Whitton with a lot of help from Nattie Mayer-Hutchings and Freexian colleagues.
  • Helmut discovered that the way mmdebstrap deals with start-stop-daemon may result in broken output and sent a patch.
  • As a result of armel being removed from sid , but not from forky , the multiarch hinter broke. Helmut fixed it.
  • Helmut uploaded debvm accepting a patch from Luca Boccassi to fix it for newer
    systemd.
  • Colin began preparing for the second stage of the OpenSSH GSS-API key exchange package split.
  • Colin caught and fixed a devscripts regression due to it breaking part of Debusine.
  • Colin packaged django-pgtransaction and backported it to trixie , since it looks useful for Debusine.
  • Thorsten uploaded the packages lprng, cpdb-backend-cups, cpdb-libs and ippsample to fix some RC bugs as well as other bugs that accumulated over time. He also uploaded cups-filters to all Debian releases to fix three CVEs.

29 November 2025

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, October 2025 (by Roberto C. S nchez)

The Debian LTS Team, funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering, is pleased to report its activities for October.

Activity summary During the month of October, 21 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS (links to individual contributor reports are located below). The team released 37 DLAs fixing 893 CVEs. The team has continued in its usual rhythm, preparing and uploading security updates targeting LTS and ELTS, as well as helping with updates to oldstable, stable, testing, and unstable. Additionally, the team received several contributions of LTS uploads from Debian Developers outside the standing LTS Team. Notable security updates:
  • https-everywhere, prepared by Markus Koschany, deals with a problem created by ownership of the https-rulesets.org domain passing to a malware operator
  • openjdk-17 and openjdk-11, prepared by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, fixes XML external entity and certificate validation vulnerabilities
  • intel-microcode, prepared by Tobias Frost, fixes a variety of privilege escalation and denial of service vulnerabilities
Notable non-security updates:
  • distro-info-data, prepared by Stefano Rivera, updates information concerning current and upcoming Debian and Ubuntu releases
Contributions from outside the LTS Team:
  • Lukas M rdian, a Debian Developer, provided an update of log4cxx
  • Andrew Ruthven, one of the request-tracker4 maintainers, provided an update of request-tracker4
  • Christoph Goehre, co-maintainer of thunderbird, provided an update of thunderbird
Beyond the typical LTS updates, the team also helped the Debian community more broadly:
  • Guilhem Moulin prepared oldstable/stable updates of libxml2, and an unstable update of libxml2.9
  • Bastien Roucari s prepared oldstable/stable updates of imagemagick
  • Daniel Leidert prepared an oldstable update of python-authlib, oldstable update of libcommons-lang-java and stable update of libcommons-lang3-java
  • Utkarsh Gupta prepared oldstable/stable/testing/unstable updates of ruby-rack
The LTS Team is grateful for the opportunity to contribute to making LTS a high quality for sponsors and users. We are also particularly grateful for the collaboration from others outside the time; their contributions are important to the success of the LTS effort.

Individual Debian LTS contributor reports

Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

13 November 2025

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Upstreaming cPython patches, ansible-core autopkgtest robustness and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)

Debian Contributions: 2025-10 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services.

Upstreaming cPython patches, by Stefano Rivera Python 3.14.0 (final) released in early October, and Stefano uploaded it to Debian unstable. The transition to support 3.14 has begun in Ubuntu, but hasn t started in Debian, yet. While build failures in Debian s non-release ports are typically not a concern for package maintainers, Python is fairly low in the stack. If a new minor version has never successfully been built for a Debian port by the time we start supporting it, it will quickly become a problem for the port. Python 3.14 had been failing to build on two Debian ports architectures (hppa and m68k), but thankfully their porters provided patches. These were applied and uploaded, and Stefano forwarded the hppa one upstream. Getting it into shape for upstream approval took some work, and shook out several other regressions for the Python hppa port. Debugging these on slow hardware takes a while. These two ports aren t successfully autobuilding 3.14 yet (they re both timing out in tests), but they re at least manually buildable, which unblocks the ports. Docutils 0.22 also landed in Debian around this time, and Python needed some work to build its docs with it. The upstream isn t quite comfortable with distros using newer docutils, so there isn t a clear path forward for these patches, yet. The start of the Python 3.15 cycle was also a good time to renew submission attempts on our other outstanding python patches, most importantly multiarch tuples for stable ABI extension filenames.

ansible-core autopkgtest robustness, by Colin Watson The ansible-core package runs its integration tests via autopkgtest. For some time, we ve seen occasional failures in the expect, pip, and template_jinja2_non_native tests that usually go away before anyone has a chance to look into them properly. Colin found that these were blocking an openssh upgrade and so decided to track them down. It turns out that these failures happened exactly when the libpython3.13-stdlib package had different versions in testing and unstable. A setup script removed /usr/lib/python3*/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED in order that pip can install system packages for some of the tests, but if a package shipping that file were ever upgraded then that customization would be undone, and the same setup script removed apt pins in a way that caused problems when autopkgtest was invoked in certain ways. In combination with this, one of the integration tests attempted to disable system apt sources while testing the behaviour of the ansible.builtin.apt module, but it failed to do so comprehensively enough and so that integration test accidentally upgraded the testbed from testing to unstable in the middle of the test. Chaos ensued. Colin fixed this in Debian and contributed the relevant part upstream.

Miscellaneous contributions
  • Carles kept working on the missing-relations (packages which Recommends or Suggests packages that are not available in Debian). He improved the tooling to detect Suggested packages that are not available in Debian because they were removed (or changed names).
  • Carles improved po-debconf-manager to send translations for packages that are not in Salsa. He also improved the UI of the tool (using rich for some of the output).
  • Carles, using po-debconf-manager, reviewed and submitted 38 debconf template translations.
  • Carles created a merge request for distro-tracker to align text and input-field (postponed until distro-tracker uses Bootstrap 5).
  • Rapha l updated gnome-shell-extension-hamster for GNOME 49. It is a GNOME Shell integration for the Hamster time tracker.
  • Rapha l merged a couple of trivial merge requests, but he did not yet find the time to properly review and test the bootstrap 5 related merge requests that are still waiting on salsa.
  • Helmut sent patches for 20 cross build failures.
  • Helmut refactored debvm dropping support for running on bookworm . There are two trixie features improving the operation. mkfs.ext4 can now consume a tar archive to populate the filesystem via libarchive and dash now supports set -o pipefail. Beyond this change in operation, a number of robustness and quality issues have been resolved.
  • Thorsten fixed some bugs in the printing software and uploaded improved versions of brlaser and ifhp. Moreover he uploaded a new upstream version of cups.
  • Emilio updated xorg-server to the latest security release and helped with various transitions.
  • Santiago worked on and reviewed different Salsa CI MR to address some regressions introduced by the move to sbuild+unshare. Those MR included stop adding the salsa-ci user in the build image to the sbuild group, fix the suffix path used by mmdebstrap to create the chroot and update the documentation about how to use aptly repos in another project.
  • Santiago supported the work on the DebConf 26 organisation, particularly helping with an implemented method to count the votes to choose the conference logo.
  • Stefano reviewed Python PEP-725 and PEP-804, which hope to provide a mechanism to declare external (e.g. APT) dependencies in Python packages. Stefano engaged in discussion and provided feedback to the authors.
  • Stefano prepared for Berkeley DB removal in Python.
  • Stefano ported the backend to reverse-depends to Python 3 (yes, it had been running on 2.7) and migrated it to git from bzr.
  • Stefano updated miscellaneous packages, including beautifulsoup4, mkdocs-macros-plugin, python-pipx.
  • Stefano applied an upstream patch to pypy3, fixing an AST Compiler Assertion error.
  • Stefano uploaded an update to distro-info-data, including data for two additional Debian derivatives: eLxr and Devuan.
  • Stefano prepared an update to dh-python, the python packaging tool, merging several contributed patches and resolving some bugs.
  • Colin upgraded OpenSSH to 10.1p1, helped upstream to chase down some regressions, and further upgraded to 10.2p1. This is also now in trixie-backports.
  • Colin fixed several build regressions with Python 3.14, scikit-learn 1.7, and other transitions.
  • Colin investigated a malware report against tini, making use of reproducible builds to help demonstrate that this is highly likely to be a false positive.
  • Anupa prepared questions and collected interview responses from women contributors in Debian to publish the post as part of Ada Lovelace day 2025.

9 November 2025

Colin Watson: Free software activity in October 2025

About 95% of my Debian contributions this month were sponsored by Freexian. You can also support my work directly via Liberapay or GitHub Sponsors. OpenSSH OpenSSH upstream released 10.1p1 this month, so I upgraded to that. In the process, I reverted a Debian patch that changed IP quality-of-service defaults, which made sense at the time but has since been reworked upstream anyway, so it makes sense to find out whether we still have similar problems. So far I haven t heard anything bad in this area. 10.1p1 caused a regression in the ssh-agent-filter package s tests, which I bisected and chased up with upstream. 10.1p1 also had a few other user-visible regressions (#1117574, #1117594, #1117638, #1117720); I upgraded to 10.2p1 which fixed some of these, and contributed some upstream debugging help to clear up the rest. While I was there, I also fixed ssh-session-cleanup: fails due to wrong $ssh_session_pattern in our packaging. Finally, I got all this into trixie-backports, which I intend to keep up to date throughout the forky development cycle. Python packaging For some time, ansible-core has had occasional autopkgtest failures that usually go away before anyone has a chance to look into them properly. I ran into these via openssh recently and decided to track them down. It turns out that they only happened when the libpython3.13-stdlib package had different versions in testing and unstable, because an integration test setup script made a change that would be reverted if that package was ever upgraded in the testbed, and one of the integration tests accidentally failed to disable system apt sources comprehensively enough while testing the behaviour of the ansible.builtin.apt module. I fixed this in Debian and contributed the relevant part upstream. We ve started working on enabling Python 3.14 as a supported version in Debian. I fixed or helped to fix a number of packages for this: I upgraded these packages to new upstream versions: I packaged python-blockbuster and python-pytokens, needed as new dependencies of various other packages. Santiago Vila filed a batch of bugs about packages that fail to build when using the nocheck build profile, and I fixed several of these (generally just a matter of adjusting build-dependencies): I helped out with the scikit-learn 1.7 transition: I fixed or helped to fix several other build/test failures: I fixed some other bugs: I investigated a python-py build failure, which turned out to have been fixed in Python 3.13.9. I adopted zope.hookable and zope.location for the Python team. Following an IRC question, I ported linux-gpib-user to pybuild-plugin-pyproject, and added tests to make sure the resulting binary package layout is correct. Rust packaging Another Pydantic upgrade meant I had to upgrade a corresponding stack of Rust packages to new upstream versions: I also upgraded rust-archery and rust-rpds. Other bits and pieces I fixed a few bugs in other packages I maintain: I investigated a malware report against tini, which I think we can prove to be a false positive (at least under the reasonable assumption that there isn t malware hiding in libgcc or glibc). Yay for reproducible builds! I noticed and fixed a small UI deficiency in debbugs, making the checkboxes under Misc options on package pages easier to hit. This is merged but we haven t yet deployed it. I notced and fixed a typo in the Being kind to porters section of the Debian Developer s Reference. Code reviews

14 October 2025

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Old Debian Printing software and C23, Work to decommission packages.qa.debian.org, rebootstrap uses *-for-host and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)

Debian Contributions: 2025-09 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services.

Updating old Debian Printing software to meet C23 requirements, by Thorsten Alteholz The work of Thorsten fell under the motto gcc15 . Due to the introduction of gcc15 in Debian, the default language version was changed to C23. This means that for example, function declarations without parameters are no longer allowed. As old software, which was created with ANSI C (or C89) syntax, made use of such function declarations, it was a busy month. One could have used something like -std=c17 as compile flags, but this would have just postponed the tasks. As a result Thorsten uploaded modernized versions of ink, nm2ppa and rlpr for the Debian printing team.

Work done to decommission packages.qa.debian.org, by Rapha l Hertzog Rapha l worked to decommission the old package tracking system (packages.qa.debian.org). After figuring out that it was still receiving emails from the bug tracking system (bugs.debian.org), from multiple debian lists and from some release team tools, he reached out to the respective teams to either drop those emails or adjust them so that they are sent to the current Debian Package Tracker (tracker.debian.org).

rebootstrap uses *-for-host, by Helmut Grohne Architecture cross bootstrapping is an ongoing effort that has shaped Debian in various ways over the years. A longer effort to express toolchain dependencies now bears fruit. When cross compiling, it becomes important to express what architecture one is compiling for in Build-Depends. As these packages have become available in trixie , more and more packages add this extra information and in August, the libtool package gained a gfortran-for-host dependency. It was the first package in the essential build closure to adopt this and required putting the pieces together in rebootstrap that now has to build gcc-defaults early on. There still are hundreds of packages whose dependencies need to be updated though.

Miscellaneous contributions
  • Rapha l dropped the Build Log Scan integration in tracker.debian.org since it was showing stale data for a while as the underlying service has been discontinued.
  • Emilio updated pixman to 0.46.4.
  • Emilio coordinated several transitions, and NMUed guestfs-tools to unblock one.
  • Stefano uploaded Python 3.14rc3 to Debian unstable. It s not yet used by any packages, but it allows testing the level of support in packages to begin.
  • Stefano upgraded almost all of the debian-social infrastructure to Debian trixie .
  • Stefano published the sponsorship brochures for DebConf 26.
  • Stefano attended the Debian Technical Committee meeting.
  • Stefano uploaded routine upstream updates for a handful of Python packages (pycparser, beautifulsoup4, platformdirs, pycparser, python-authlib, python-cffi, python-mitogen, python-resolvelib, python-super-collections, twine).
  • Stefano reviewed and responded to DebConf 25 feedback.
  • Stefano investigated and fixed a request visibility bug in debian-reimbursements (for admin-altered requests).
  • Lucas reviewed a couple of merge requests from external contributors for Go and Ruby packages.
  • Lucas updated some ruby packages to its latest upstream version (thin, passenger, and puma is still WIP).
  • Lucas set up the build environment to run rebuilds of reverse dependencies of ruby using ruby3.4. As an alternative, he is looking for personal repositories provided by Debusine to perform this task more easily. This is the preparation for the transition to ruby3.4 as the default in Debian.
  • Lucas helped on the next round of the Outreachy internship program.
  • Helmut sent patches for 30 cross build failures and responded to cross building support questions on the mailing list.
  • Helmut continued to maintain rebootstrap. As gcc version 15 became the default, test jobs for version 14 had to be dropped. A fair number of patches were applied to packages and could be dropped.
  • Helmut resumed removing RC-buggy packages from unstable and sponsored a termrec upload to avoid its deletion. This work was paused to give packages some time to migrate to forky .
  • Santiago reviewed different merge requests created by different contributors. Those MRs include a new test to build reverse dependencies, created by Aquila Macedo as part of his GSoC internship; restore how lintian was used in experimental, thanks Otto Kek l inen; and the fix by Christian Bayle to support again extra repositories in deb822-style sources, whose support was broken with the move to sbuild+unshare last month.
  • While doing some new upstream release updates, thanks to Debusine s reverse dependencies autopkgtest checks, Santiago discovered that paramiko 4.0 will introduce a regression in libcloud by the drop of support for the obsolete DSA keys. Santiago finally uploaded to unstable both paramiko 4.0, and a regression fix for libcloud.
  • Santiago has taken part in different discussions and meetings for the preparation of DebConf 26. The DebConf 26 local team aims to prepare for the conference with enough time in advance.
  • Carles kept working on the missing-package-relations and reporting missing Recommends. He improved the tooling to detect and report bugs creating 269 bugs and followed up comments. 37 bugs have been resolved, others acknowledged. The missing Recommends are a mixture of packages that are gone from Debian, packages that changed name, typos and also packages that were recommended but are not packaged in Debian.
  • Carles improved the missing-package-relations to report broken Suggests only for packages that used to be in Debian but are removed from it now. No bugs have been created yet for this case but identified 1320 of them.
  • Colin spent much of the month chasing down build/test regressions in various Python packages due to other upgrades, particularly relating to pydantic, python-pytest-asyncio, and rust-pyo3.
  • Colin optimized some code in ubuntu-dev-tools (affecting e.g. pull-debian-source) that made O(n) HTTP requests when it could instead make O(1).
  • Anupa published Micronews as part of Debian Publicity team work.

13 October 2025

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, September 2025 (by Roberto C. S nchez)

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering.

Debian LTS contributors In September, 20 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:
  • Abhijith PA did 10.0h (out of 10.0h assigned and 4.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 4.0h to the next month.
  • Andreas Henriksson did 1.0h (out of 0.0h assigned and 20.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 19.0h to the next month.
  • Bastien Roucari s did 20.0h (out of 20.0h assigned).
  • Ben Hutchings did 20.0h (out of 21.0h assigned), thus carrying over 1.0h to the next month.
  • Carlos Henrique Lima Melara did 10.0h (out of 12.0h assigned), thus carrying over 2.0h to the next month.
  • Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
  • Daniel Leidert did 21.0h (out of 21.0h assigned).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 39.75h (out of 40.0h assigned), thus carrying over 0.25h to the next month.
  • Guilhem Moulin did 15.0h (out of 15.0h assigned).
  • Jochen Sprickerhof did 12.0h (out of 9.25h assigned and 11.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 9.0h to the next month.
  • Lee Garrett did 13.5h (out of 21.0h assigned), thus carrying over 7.5h to the next month.
  • Lucas Kanashiro did 8.0h (out of 20.0h assigned), thus carrying over 12.0h to the next month.
  • Markus Koschany did 15.0h (out of 3.25h assigned and 17.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 6.0h to the next month.
  • Paride Legovini did 6.0h (out of 8.0h assigned), thus carrying over 2.0h to the next month.
  • Roberto C. S nchez did 7.25h (out of 7.75h assigned and 13.25h from previous period), thus carrying over 13.75h to the next month.
  • Santiago Ruano Rinc n did 13.25h (out of 13.5h assigned and 1.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 1.75h to the next month.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 17.0h (out of 7.75h assigned and 13.25h from previous period), thus carrying over 4.0h to the next month.
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 21.0h (out of 21.0h assigned).
  • Tobias Frost did 5.0h (out of 0.0h assigned and 8.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 3.0h to the next month.
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 16.5h (out of 14.25h assigned and 6.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 4.5h to the next month.

Evolution of the situation In September, we released 38 DLAs.
  • Notable security updates:
    • modsecurity-apache prepared by Adrian Bunk, fixes a cross-site scripting vulnerability
    • cups, prepared by Thorsten Alteholz, fixes authentication bypass and denial of service vulnerabilities
    • jetty9, prepared by Adrian Bunk, fixes the MadeYouReset vulnerability (a recent, well-known denial of service vulnerability)
    • python-django, prepared by Chris Lamb, fixes a SQL injection vulnerability
    • firefox-esr and thunderbird, prepared by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, were updated from the 128.x ESR series to the 140.x ESR series, fixing a number of vulnerabilities as well
  • Notable non-security updates:
    • wireless-regdb prepared by Ben Hutchings, updates information reflecting changes to radio regulations in many countries
There was one package update contributed by a Debian Developer outside of the LTS Team: an update of node-tar-fs, prepared by Xavier Guimard (a member of the Node packaging team). Finally, LTS Team members also contributed updates of the following packages:
  • libxslt (to stable and oldstable), prepared by Guilhem Moulin, to address a regression introduced in a previous security update
  • libphp-adodb (to stable and oldstable), prepared by Abhijith PA
  • cups (to stable and oldstable), prepared by Thorsten Alteholz
  • u-boot (to oldstable), prepared by Daniel Leidert and Jochen Sprickerhof
  • libcommongs-lang3-java (to stable and oldstable), prepared by Daniel Leidert
  • python-internetarchive (to oldstable), prepared by Daniel Leidert
One other notable contribution by a member of the LTS Team is that Sylvain Beucler proposed a fix upstream for CVE-2025-2760 in gimp2. Upstream no longer supports gimp2, but it is still present in Debian LTS, and so proposing this fix upstream is of benefit to other distros which may still be supporting the older gimp2 packages.

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30 September 2025

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in September 2025

Here s my monthly but brief update about the activities I ve done in the F/L/OSS world.

Debian
Whilst I didn t get a chance to do much, here s still a few things that I worked on:

Ubuntu
I joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time back in February 2021. Whilst I can t give a full, detailed list of things I did, here s a quick TL;DR of what I did:
  • Successfully and timely released 25.10 (Questing Quokka) Beta! \o/
  • Continued to hold weekly release syncs, et al.
  • Granted FFe and triaged a bunch of other bugs from both, Release team and Archive Admin POV. :)
  • 360s were fab - I was a peak performer again. Yay!
  • Preparing for the 25.10 Release sprints in London and then the Summit.
  • Roadmap planning for the Release team.

Debian (E)LTS
This month I have worked 16.50 hours on Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and 05.50 hours on its sister Extended LTS project and did the following things:
  • [E/LTS] Frontdesk duty from 22nd September to 28th September.
    • Triaged lemonldap-ng, ghostscript, dovecot, node-ip, webkit2gtk, wpewebkit, libscram-java, keras, openbabel, gegl, tiff, zookeeper, squid, ogre-1.12, mapserver, ruby-rack.
    • Auto-EOL d a few packages.
    • Also circled back on previously opened ticket for supported packages for ELTS.
    • Partially reviewed and added comment on Emilio s MP.
    • Re-visited an old thread (in order to fully close it) about issues being fixed in buster & bookworm but not in bullseye. And brought it up in the LTS meeting, too.
  • [LTS] Partook in some internal discussions about introducing support for handling severity of CVEs, et al.
    • Santiago had asked for an input from people doing FD so spent some time reflecting on his proposal and getting back with thoughts and suggestions.
  • [LTS] Helped Lee with testing gitk and git-gui aspects of his git update.
  • [LTS] Attended the monthly LTS meeting on IRC. Summary here.
    • It was also followed by a 40-minute discussion of technical questions/reviews/discussions - which in my opinion was pretty helpful. :)
  • [LTS] Prepared the LTS update for wordpress, bumping the package from 5.7.11 to 5.7.13.
    • Prepared an update for stable, Craig approved. Was waiting on the Security team s +1 to upload.
    • Now we ve waited enough that we have new CVEs. Oh well.
  • [ELTS] Finally setup debusine for ELTS uploads.
    • Since I use Ubuntu, this required installing debusine* from bookworm-backport but that required Python 3.11.
    • So I had to upgrade from Jammy (22.04) to Noble (24.04) - which was anyway pending.. :)
    • And then followed the docs to configure it. \o/
  • [E/LTS] Started working on new ruby-rack CVE.
Until next time.
:wq for today.

25 September 2025

kpcyrd: Release: rebuilderd v0.25.0

rebuilderd v0.25.0 was recently released, this version has improved in-toto support for cryptographic attestations that this blog post briefly outlines. As a quick recap, rebuilderd is an automatic build scheduler that emerged in 2019/2020 from the Reproducible Builds project doing the following:
  1. Track binary packages available in a Linux distribution
  2. Attempt to compile the official binary packages from their (alleged) source code
  3. Check if the package we compiled is bit-for-bit identical
    1. If so, mark it GOOD, issue an attestation
    2. In every other case, mark it BAD, generate a diffoscope
The binary packages in question are explicitly the packages users would also fetch and install. This project has caught the attention of Arch Linux, Debian and Fedora.

Before this version The original in-toto integration was added 4 years ago by Joy Liu during GSoC 2021, with help from Santiago Torres and Aditya Sirish (shoutout to the real ones!). Each rebuilderd-worker had its own cryptographic key and included a signed attestation along with the build result that could then be fetched from /api/v0/builds/ id /attestation. Since these workers are potentially ephemeral, and the list of worker public keys wasn t publicly known, it was difficult to make use of those signatures.

Since this version This version introduces the following:
  1. The rebuilderd daemon itself generates a long-term signing key
  2. All attestations signed by a trusted worker also get signed by the rebuilderd daemon
  3. The rebuilderd daemon gets a new endpoint that can be used to query the public-key this instance identifies with: /api/v0/public-keys
An example of this new endpoint can be found here: https://reproducible.archlinux.org/api/v0/public-keys The response looks something like this (this is the real long-term signing key used by reproducible.archlinux.org): 
 
    "current": [
        "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\r\nMCwwBwYDK2VwBQADIQBLNcEcgErQ1rZz9oIkUnzc3fPuqJEALr22rNbrBK7iqQ==\r\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\r\n"
    ]
It s a list so keys can potentially be rolled over time, and in future versions it should also list the public keys the instance has used in the past. I haven t develop any integrations for this yet (partially also to allow deployments to catch up with the new release), but I m planning to do so using the in-toto crate.

Closing words To give credit where credit is due (and because people pointed out I tend to end my blog posts too abruptly), rebuilderd is only the scheduler software, the actual build in the correct build-environment is outsourced to external tooling like archlinux-repro and debrebuild. For further reading on applied reproducible builds, see also my previous blogpost Disagreeing rebuilders and what that means. Also, there are currently efforts by the European Commission to outlaw unregulated end-to-end encrypted chat, so this may be a good time to prepare for (potential) impact and check what tools you have available to reduce unchecked trust in (open source) software authorities, to keep them operating honest and accountable. Never lose the plot~ Sincerely yours

11 September 2025

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Preparing for setup.py install deprecation, Salsa CI, Debian 13 "trixie" release and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)

Debian Contributions: 2025-08 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services.

Preparing for setup.py install deprecation, by Colin Watson setuptools upstream will be removing the setup.py install command on 31 October. While this may not trickle down immediately into Debian, it does mean that in the near future nearly all Python packages will have to use pybuild-plugin-pyproject (though they don t necessarily have to use pyproject.toml; this is just a question of how the packaging runs the build system). Some of the Python team talked about this a bit at DebConf, and Colin volunteered to write up some notes on cases where this isn t straightforward. This page will likely grow as the team works on this problem.

Salsa CI, by Santiago Ruano Rinc n Santiago fixed some pending issues in the MR that moves the pipeline to sbuild+unshare, and after several months, Santiago was able to mark the MR as ready. Part of the recent fixes include handling external repositories, honoring the RELEASE autodetection from d/changelog (thanks to Ahmed Siam for spotting the main reason of the issue), and fixing a regression about the apt resolver for *-backports releases. Santiago is currently waiting for a final review and approval from other members of the Salsa CI team, and being able to merge it. Thanks to all the folks who have helped testing the changes or provided feedback so far. If you want to test the current MR, you need to include the following pipeline definition in your project s CI config file: 
---
include:
  - https://salsa.debian.org/santiago/pipeline/raw/sbuild-unshare-02-salsa-ci/salsa-ci.yml
  - https://salsa.debian.org/santiago/pipeline/raw/sbuild-unshare-02-salsa-ci/pipeline-jobs.yml
As a reminder, this MR will make the Salsa CI pipeline build the packages more similar to how it s built by the Debian official builders. This will also save some resources, since the default pipeline will have one stage less (the provisioning) stage, and will make it possible for more projects to be built on salsa.debian.org (including large projects and those from the OCaml ecosystem), etc. See the different issues being fixed in the MR description.

Debian 13 trixie release, by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort On August 9th, Debian 13 trixie was released, building on two years worth of updates and bug fixes from hundreds of developers. Emilio helped coordinate the release, communicating with several teams involved in the process.

DebConf 26 Site Visit, by Stefano Rivera Stefano visited Santa Fe, Argentina, the site for DebConf 26 next year. The aim of the visit was to help build a local team and see the conference venue first-hand. Stefano and Nattie represented the DebConf Committee. The local team organized Debian meetups in Buenos Aires and Santa Fe, where Stefano presented a talk on Debian and DebConf. Venues were scouted and the team met with the university management and local authorities.

Miscellaneous contributions
  • Rapha l updated tracker.debian.org after the trixie release to add the new forky release in the set of monitored distributions. He also reviewed and deployed the work of Scott Talbert showing open merge requests from salsa in the action needed panel.
  • Rapha l reviewed some DEP-3 changes to modernize the embedded examples in light of the broad git adoption.
  • Rapha l configured new workflows on debusine.debian.net to upload to trixie and trixie-security, and officially announced the service on debian-devel-announce, inviting Debian developers to try the service for their next upload to unstable.
  • Carles created a merge request for django-compressor upstream to fix an error when concurrent node processing happened. This will allow removing a workaround added in openstack-dashboard and avoid the same bug in other projects that use django-compressor.
  • Carles prepared a system to detect packages that Recommends packages which don t exist in unstable. Processed (either reported or ignored due to mis-detected problems or temporary problems) 16% of the reports. Will continue next month.
  • Carles got familiar and gave feedback for the freedict-wikdict package. Planned contributions with the maintainer to improve the package.
  • Helmut responded to queries related to /usr-move.
  • Helmut adapted crossqa.d.n to the release of trixie .
  • Helmut diagnosed sufficient failures in rebootstrap to make it work with gcc-15.
  • Helmut fixed the CI pipeline of debvm.
  • Helmut sent patches for 19 cross build problems.
  • Faidon discovered that the Multi-Arch hinter would emit confusing hints about :any annotations. Helmut identified the root cause to be the handling of virtual packages and fixed it.
  • Enrico took some dust off python-debiancontributors and prototyped a receiving end for salsa webpings, to start followup work to contributors.debian.org discussions at DebConf25.
  • Colin upgraded about 70 Python packages to new upstream versions, which is around 10% of the backlog; this included a complicated Pydantic upgrade in collaboration with the Rust team.
  • Colin fixed a bug in debbugs that caused incoming emails to bugs.debian.org with certain header contents to go missing.
  • Thorsten uploaded sane-airscan, which was already in experimental, to unstable.
  • Thorsten created a script to automate the upload of new upstream versions of foomatic-db. The database contains information about printers and regularly gets an update. Now it is possible to keep the package more up to date in Debian.
  • Stefano prepared updates to almost all of his packages that had new versions waiting to upload to unstable. (beautifulsoup4, hatch-vcs, mkdocs-macros-plugin, pypy3, python-authlib, python-cffi, python-mitogen, python-pip, python-pipx, python-progress, python-truststore, python-virtualenv, re2, snowball, soupsieve).
  • Stefano uploaded two new python3.13 point releases to unstable.
  • Stefano updated distro-info-data in stable releases, to document the trixie release and expected EoL dates.
  • Stefano did some debian.social sysadmin work (keeping up quotas with growing databases and filesystems).
  • Stefano supported the Debian treasurers in processing some of the DebConf 25 reimbursements.
  • Lucas uploaded ruby3.4 to experimental. It was already approved by FTP masters.
  • Lucas uploaded ruby-defaults to experimental to add support for ruby3.4. It will allow us to start triggering test rebuilds and catch any FTBFS with ruby3.4.
  • Lucas did some administrative work for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and replied to some queries from mentors and students.
  • Anupa helped to organize release parties for Debian 13 and Debian Day events.
  • Anupa did the live coverage for the Debian 13 release and prepared the Bits post for the release announcement and 32nd Debian Day as part of the Debian Publicity team.
  • Anupa attended a Debian Day event organized by FOSS club SSET as a speaker.

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, August 2025 (by Roberto C. S nchez)

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering.

Debian LTS contributors In August, 21 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:
  • Abhijith PA did 10.0h (out of 0.0h assigned and 14.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 4.0h to the next month.
  • Andrej Shadura did 12.0h (out of 9.0h assigned and 3.0h from previous period).
  • Bastien Roucari s did 20.0h (out of 19.75h assigned and 0.25h from previous period).
  • Ben Hutchings did 22.75h (out of 16.5h assigned and 6.25h from previous period).
  • Carlos Henrique Lima Melara did 10.0h (out of 10.0h assigned).
  • Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
  • Daniel Leidert did 23.25h (out of 23.25h assigned).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 23.25h (out of 23.25h assigned).
  • Guilhem Moulin did 15.0h (out of 15.0h assigned).
  • Jochen Sprickerhof did 11.0h (out of 6.0h assigned and 16.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 11.75h to the next month.
  • Lee Garrett did 16.25h (out of 0.0h assigned and 16.25h from previous period).
  • Lucas Kanashiro did 20.0h (out of 1.25h assigned and 18.75h from previous period).
  • Markus Koschany did 5.0h (out of 13.0h assigned and 9.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 17.75h to the next month.
  • Paride Legovini did 8.0h (out of 0.0h assigned and 8.0h from previous period).
  • Roberto C. S nchez did 7.5h (out of 11.75h assigned and 11.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 15.25h to the next month.
  • Santiago Ruano Rinc n did 13.5h (out of 7.25h assigned and 7.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 1.5h to the next month.
  • Stefano Rivera did 0.5h (out of 0.0h assigned and 3.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 2.5h to the next month.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 10.0h (out of 23.25h assigned), thus carrying over 13.25h to the next month.
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 22.75h (out of 22.75h assigned).
  • Tobias Frost did 4.0h (out of 0.0h assigned and 12.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.0h to the next month.
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 16.0h (out of 22.75h assigned), thus carrying over 6.75h to the next month.

Evolution of the situation In August, we released 27 DLAs. The month of August marked the release of Debian 13 (codename trixie ). This is worth noting because it brought with it the return of the customary fast development pace of Debian unstable, which included several contributions from LTS Team members. More on that below. Of the many security updates which were published (and a few non-security updates as well), some notable ones are highlighted here.
  • Notable security updates:
    • gnutls28 prepared by Adrian Bunk, fixes several potential denial of service vulnerabilities
    • apache2, prepared by Bastien Roucari s, fixes several vulnerabilities including a potential denial of service and SSL/TLS-related access control
    • mbedtls (original update, regression update) prepared by Andrej Shadura, fixes several potential denial of service and information disclosure vulnerabilities
    • openjdk-17, prepared by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, fixes several vulnerabilities which could result in denial of service, information disclosure or weakened TLS connections
  • Notable non-security updates:
    • distro-info-data, prepared by Stefano Rivera, adds information concerning future Debian and Ubuntu releases
    • ca-certificates-java, prepared by Bastien Roucari s, fixes some bugs which could disrupt future updates
The LTS Team continues to welcome the collaboration of maintainers from across the Debian community. The contributions of maintainers from outside the LTS Team include: postgresql-13 (Christoph Berg), sope (Jordi Mallach), thunderbird (Carsten Schoenert), and iperf3 (Roberto Lumbreras). Finally, LTS Team members also contributed updates of the following packages:
  • redis (to stable), prepared by Chris Lamb
  • firebird3.0 (to oldstable and stable), prepared by Adrian Bunk
  • node-tmp (to oldstable, stable, and unstable), prepared by Adrian Bunk
  • openjpeg2 (to oldstable, stable, and unstable), prepared by Adrian Bunk
  • apache2 (to oldstable), prepared by Bastien Roucari s
  • unbound (to oldstable), prepared by Guilhem Moulin
  • luajit (to oldstable), prepared by Guilhem Moulin
  • golang-github-gin-contrib-cors (to oldstable and stable), prepared by Thorsten Alteholz
  • libcoap3 (to stable), prepared by Thorsten Alteholz
  • libcommons-lang-java and libcommons-lang3-java (both to unstable), prepared by Daniel Leidert
  • python-flask-cors (to oldstable), prepared by Daniel Leidert
The LTS Team would especially like to thank our many longtime friends and sponsors for their support and collaboration.

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15 August 2025

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, July 2025 (by Roberto C. S nchez)

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering.

Debian LTS contributors In July, 17 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:
  • Adrian Bunk did 19.0h (out of 19.0h assigned).
  • Andrej Shadura did 5.0h (out of 0.0h assigned and 8.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 3.0h to the next month.
  • Bastien Roucari s did 18.5h (out of 18.75h assigned), thus carrying over 0.25h to the next month.
  • Ben Hutchings did 12.5h (out of 3.25h assigned and 15.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 6.25h to the next month.
  • Carlos Henrique Lima Melara did 10.0h (out of 10.0h assigned).
  • Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
  • Daniel Leidert did 18.75h (out of 17.25h assigned and 1.5h from previous period).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 18.75h (out of 18.75h assigned).
  • Guilhem Moulin did 15.0h (out of 14.0h assigned and 1.0h from previous period).
  • Jochen Sprickerhof did 2.0h (out of 16.5h assigned and 2.25h from previous period), thus carrying over 16.75h to the next month.
  • Lee Garrett did 7.0h (out of 0.0h assigned and 23.25h from previous period), thus carrying over 16.25h to the next month.
  • Markus Koschany did 9.0h (out of 18.75h assigned), thus carrying over 9.75h to the next month.
  • Roberto C. S nchez did 10.25h (out of 18.5h assigned and 2.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 11.0h to the next month.
  • Santiago Ruano Rinc n did 7.25h (out of 12.75h assigned and 2.25h from previous period), thus carrying over 7.75h to the next month.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 18.75h (out of 18.75h assigned).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 15.0h (out of 15.0h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 15.0h (out of 1.0h assigned and 14.0h from previous period).

Evolution of the situation In July, we released 24 DLAs.
  • Notable security updates:
    • angular.js, prepared by Bastien Roucari s, fixes multiple vulnerabilities including input sanitization and potential regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)
    • tomcat9, prepared by Markus Koschany, fixes an assortment of vulnerabilities
    • mediawiki, prepared by Guilhem Moulin, fixes several information disclosure and privilege escalation vulnerabilities
    • php7.4, prepared by Guilhem Moulin, fixes several server side request forgery and denial of service vulnerabilities
This month s contributions from outside the regular team include an update to thunderbird, prepared by Christoph Goehre (the package maintainer). LTS Team members also contributed updates of the following packages:
  • commons-beanutils (to stable and unstable), prepared by Adrian Bunk
  • djvulibre (to oldstable, stable, and unstable), prepared by Adrian Bunk
  • git (to stable), prepared by Adrian Bunk
  • redis (to oldstable), prepared by Chris Lamb
  • libxml2 (to oldstable), prepared by Guilhem Moulin
  • commons-vfs (to oldstable), prepared by Daniel Leidert
Additionally, LTS Team member Santiago Ruano Rinc n proposed and implemented an improvement to the debian-security-support package. This package is available so that interested users can quickly determine if any installed packages are subject to limited security support or are excluded entirely from security support. However, there was not previously a way to identify explicitly supported packages, which has become necessary to note exceptions to broad exclusion policies (e.g., those which apply to substantial package groups, like modules belonging to the Go and Rust language ecosystems). Santiago s work has enabled the notation of exceptions to these exclusions, thus ensuring that users of debian-security-support have accurate status information concerning installed packages.

DebCamp 25 Security Tracker Sprint The previously announced security tracker sprint took place at DebCamp from 7-13 July. Participants included 8 members of the standing LTS Team, 2 active Debian Developers with an interest in LTS, 3 community members, and 1 member of the Debian Security Team (who provided guidance and reviews on proposed changes to the security tracker); participation was a mix of in person at the venue in Brest, France and remote. During the days of the sprint, the team tackled a wide range of bugs and improvements, mostly targeting the security tracker. The sprint participants worked on the following items: As can be seen from the above list, only a small number of changes were brought to completion during the sprint week itself. Given the very compressed timeframe involved, the broad scope of tasks which were under consideration, and the highly sensitive data managed by the security tracker, this is not entirely unexpected and in no way diminishes the great work done by the sprint participants. The LTS Team would especially like to thank Salvatore Bonaccorso of the Debian Security Team for making himself available throughout the sprint to answer questions, for providing guidance on the work, and for helping the work by reviewing and merging the MRs which were able to merged during the sprint itself. In the weeks that follow the sprint, the team will continue working towards completing the in progress items.

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12 August 2025

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: DebConf 25, OpenSSH upgrades, Cross compilation collaboration and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)

Debian Contributions: 2025-07 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services.

DebConf 25, by Stefano Rivera and Santiago Ruano Rinc n In July, DebConf 25 was held in Brest, France. Freexian was a gold sponsor and most of the Freexian team attended the event. Many fruitful discussions were had amongst our team and within the Debian community. DebConf itself was organized by a local team in Brest, that included Santiago (who now lives in Uruguay). Stefano was also deeply involved in the organization, as a DebConf committee member, core video team, and the lead developer for the conference website. Running the conference took an enormous amount of work, consuming all of Stefano and Santiago s time for most of July. Lucas Kanashiro was active in the DebConf content team, reviewing talks and scheduling them. There were many last-minute changes to make during the event. Anupa Ann Joseph was part of the Debian publicity team doing live coverage of DebConf 25 and was part of the DebConf 25 content team reviewing the talks. She also assisted the local team to procure the lanyards. Recorded sessions presented by Freexian collaborators, often alongside other friends in Debian, included:

OpenSSH upgrades, by Colin Watson Towards the end of a release cycle, people tend to do more upgrade testing, and this sometimes results in interesting problems. Manfred Stock reported No new SSH connections possible during large part of upgrade to Debian Trixie , which would have affected many people upgrading from Debian 12 (bookworm), with potentially severe consequences for people upgrading remote systems. In fact, there were two independent problems that each led to much the same symptom:
  • As part of hardening the OpenSSH server, OpenSSH 9.8 split the monolithic sshd listener process into two pieces: a minimal network listener (still called sshd), and an sshd-session process dealing with each individual session. Before this change, when sshd received an incoming connection, it forked and re-executed itself with some special parameters to deal with it; after this change, it forks and executes sshd-session instead, and sshd no longer accepts the parameters it used to accept for this.

    Debian package upgrades happen (roughly) in two phases: first we unpack the new files onto disk, and then we run some configuration steps which usually include things like restarting services. Normally this is fine, because the old service keeps on working until it s restarted. In this case, unpacking the new files onto disk immediately stopped new SSH connections from working: the old sshd received the connection and tried to hand it off to a freshly-executed copy of the new sshd binary on disk, which no longer supports this. This wasn t much of a problem when upgrading OpenSSH on its own or with a small number of other packages, but in release upgrades it left a large gap when you can t SSH to the system any more, and if anything fails in that interval then you could be in trouble.

    After trying a couple of other approaches, Colin landed on the idea of having the openssh-server package divert /usr/sbin/sshd to /usr/sbin/sshd.session-split before the unpack step of an upgrade from before 9.8, then removing the diversion and moving the new file into place once it s ready to restart the service. This reduces the period when new connections fail to a minimum.
  • Most OpenSSH processes, including sshd, check for a compatible version of the OpenSSL library when they start up. This check used to be very picky, among other things requiring both the major and minor part of the version number to match. OpenSSL 3 has a better versioning policy, and so OpenSSH 9.4p1 relaxed this check.

    Unfortunately, bookworm shipped with OpenSSH 9.2p1, so as soon as you unpacked the new OpenSSL library during an upgrade, sshd stopped working. This couldn t be fixed by a change in trixie; we needed to change bookworm in advance of the upgrade so that it would tolerate newer versions of OpenSSL, and time was tight if we wanted this to be available before the release of Debian 13.

    Fortunately, there s a stable-updates mechanism for exactly this sort of thing, and the stable release managers kindly accepted Colin s proposal to fix this there.
The net result is that if you apply updates to bookworm (including stable-updates / bookworm-updates, which is enabled by default) before starting the upgrade to trixie, everything should be fine.

Cross compilation collaboration, by Helmut Grohne Supporting cross building in Debian packages touches lots of areas of the archive and quite some of these matters reside in shared responsibility between different teams. Hence, DebConf was an ideal opportunity to settle long-standing issues. The cross building bof sparked lively discussions as a significant fraction of developers employ cross builds to get their work done. In the trixie release, about two thirds of the packages can satisfy their cross Build-Depends and about half of the packages actually can be cross built.

Miscellaneous contributions
  • Rapha l Hertzog updated tracker.debian.org to remove references to Debian 10 which was moved to archive.debian.org, and had many fruitful discussions related to Debusine during DebConf 25.
  • Carles Pina prepared some data, questions and information for the DebConf 25 l10n and i18n BoF.
  • Carles Pina demoed and discussed possible next steps for po-debconf-manager with different teams in DebConf 25. He also reviewed Catalan translations and sent them to the packages.
  • Carles Pina started investigating a django-compressor bug: reproduced the bug consistently and prepared a PR for django-compressor upstream (likely more details next month). Looked at packaging frictionless-py.
  • Stefano Rivera triaged Python CVEs against pypy3.
  • Stefano prepared an upload of a new upstream release of pypy3 to Debian experimental (due to the freeze).
  • Stefano uploaded python3.14 RC1 to Debian experimental.
  • Thorsten Alteholz uploaded a new upstream version of sane-airscan to experimental. He also started to work on a new upstream version of hplip.
  • Colin backported fixes for CVE-2025-50181 and CVE-2025-50182 in python-urllib3, and fixed several other release-critical or important bugs in Python team packages.
  • Lucas uploaded ruby3.4 to experimental as a starting point for the ruby-defaults transition that will happen after Trixie release.
  • Lucas coordinated with the Release team the fix of the remaining RC bugs involving ruby packages, and got them all fixed.
  • Lucas, as part of the Debian Ruby team, kicked off discussions to improve internal process/tooling.
  • Lucas, as part of the Debian Outreach team, engaged in multiple discussions around internship programs we run and also what else we could do to improve outreach in the Debian project.
  • Lucas joined the Local groups BoF during DebConf 25 and shared all the good experiences from the Brazilian community and committed to help to document everything to try to support other groups.
  • Helmut spent significant time with Samuel Thibault on improving architecture cross bootstrap for hurd-any mostly reviewing Samuel s patches. He proposed a patch for improving bash s detection of its pipesize and a change to dpkg-shlibdeps to improve behavior for building cross toolchains.
  • Helmut reiterated the multiarch policy proposal with a lot of help from Nattie Mayer-Hutchings, Rhonda D Vine and Stuart Prescott.
  • Helmut finished his work on the process based unschroot prototype that was the main feature of his talk (see above).
  • Helmut analyzed a multiarch-related glibc upgrade failure induced by a /usr-move mitigation of systemd and sent a patch and regression fix both of which reached trixie in time. Thanks to Aurelien Jarno and the release team for their timely cooperation.
  • Helmut resurrected an earlier discussion about changing the semantics of Architecture: all packages in a multiarch context in order to improve the long-standing interpreter problem. With help from Tollef Fog Heen better semantics were discovered and agreement was reached with Guillem Jover and Julian Andres Klode to consider this change. The idea is to record a concrete architecture for every Architecture: all package in the dpkg database and enable choosing it as non-native.
  • Helmut implemented type hints for piuparts.
  • Helmut reviewed and improved a patch set of Jochen Sprickerhof for debvm.
  • Anupa was involved in discussions with the Debian Women team during DebConf 25.
  • Anupa started working for the trixie release coverage and started coordinating release parties.
  • Emilio helped coordinate the release of Debian 13 trixie.

29 July 2025

Christoph Berg: The Debian Conference 2025 in Brest

It's Sunday and I'm now sitting in the train from Brest to Paris where I will be changing to Germany, on the way back from the annual Debian conference. A full week of presentations, discussions, talks and socializing is laying behind me and my head is still spinning from the intensity.
Pollito and the gang of DebConf mascots wearing their conference badgesPollito and the gang of DebConf mascots wearing their conference badges (photo: Christoph Berg)
Sunday, July 13th It started last Sunday with traveling to the conference. I got on the Eurostar in Duisburg and we left on time, but even before reaching Cologne, the train was already one hour delayed for external reasons, collecting yet another hour between Aachen and Liege for its own technical problems. "The train driver is working on trying to fix the problem." My original schedule had well over two hours for changing train stations in Paris, but being that late, I missed the connection to Brest in Montparnasse. At least in the end, the total delay was only one hour when finally arriving at the destination. Due to the French julliet quatorze fireworks approaching, buses in Brest were rerouted, but I managed to catch the right bus to the conference venue, already meeting a few Debian people on the way. The conference was hosted at the IMT Atlantique Brest campus, giving the event a nice university touch. I arrived shortly after 10 in the evening and after settling down a bit, got on one of the "magic" buses for transportation to the camping site where half of the attendees where stationed. I shared a mobile home with three other Debianites, where I got a small room for myself. Monday, July 14th Next morning, we took the bus back to the venue with a small breakfast and the opening session where Enrico Zini invited me to come to his and Nicolas Dandrimont's session about Debian community governance and curation, which I gladly did. Many ideas about conflict moderation and community steering were floated around. I hope some of that can be put into effect to make flamewars on the mailing lists less heated and more directed. After that, I attended Olly Betts' "Stemming with Snowball" session, which is the stemmer used also in PostgreSQL. Text search is one of the areas in PostgreSQL that I never really looked closely at, including the integration into the postgresql-common package, so it was nice to get more information about that. In preparation for the conference, a few of us Ham radio operators in Debian had decided to bring some radio gear to DebConf this year in order to perhaps spark more interest for our hobby among the fellow geeks. In the afternoon after the talks, I found a quieter spot just outside of the main hall and set up a shortwave antenna by attaching a 10m mast to one of the park benches there. The 40m band was still pretty much closed, but I could work a few stations from England, just across the channel from Bretagne, answering questions from interested passing-by Debian people between the contacts. Over time, the band opened and more European stations got into the log.
F/DF7CB in Brest (photo: Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras)
Tuesday, July 15th Tuesday started with Helmut Grohne's session about "Reviving (un)schroot". The schroot program has been Debian's standard way of managing build chroots for a long time, but it is more and more being regarded as obsolete with all kinds of newer containerization and virtualization technologies taking over. Since many bits of Debian infrastructure depend on schroot, and its user interface is still very useful, Helmut reimplemented it using Linux namespaces and the "unshare" systemcall. I had already worked with him at the Hamburg Minidebconf to replace the apt.postgresql.org buildd machinery with the new system, but we were not quite there yet (network isolation is nice, but we still sometimes need proper networking), so it was nice to see the effort is still progressing and I will give his new scripts a try when I'm back home. Next, Stefano Rivera and Colin Watson presented Debusine, a new package repository and workflow management system. It looks very promising for anyone running their own repository, so perhaps yet another bit of apt.postgresql.org infrastructure to replace in the future. After that, I went to the Debian LTS BoF session by Santiago Ruano Rinc n and Bastien Roucari s - Debian releases plus LTS is what we are covering with apt.postgresql.org. Then there were bits from the DPL (Debian Project Leader), and a session moderated by Stefano Rivera interesting to me as a member of the Debian Technical Committee on the future structure of the packages required for cross-building in Debian, a topic which had been brought to TC a while ago. I am happy that we could resolve the issue without having to issue a formal TC ruling as the involved parties (kernel, glibc, gcc and the cross-build people) found a promising way forward themselves. DebConf is really a good way to get such issues unstuck. Ten years ago at the 2015 Heidelberg DebConf, Enrico had given a seminal "Semi-serious stand-up comedy" talk, drawing parallels between the Debian Open Source community and the BDSM community - "People doing things consensually together". (Back then, the talk was announced as "probably unsuitable for people of all ages".) With his unique presentation style and witty insights, the session made a lasting impression on everyone attending. Now, ten years later (and he and many in the audience being ten years older), he gave an updated version of it. We are now looking forward to the sequel in 2035. The evening closed with the famous DebConf tradition of the Cheese & Wine party in a old fort next to the coast, just below the conference venue. Even when he's a fellow Debian Developer, Ham and also TC member, I had never met Paul Tagliamonte in person before, but we spent most of the evening together geeking out on all things Debian and Ham radio.
The northern coast of Ushant (photo: Christoph Berg)
Wednesday, July 16th Wednesday already marked the end of the first half of the week, the day of the day trips. I had chosen to go to Ouessant island (Ushant in English) which marks the Western end of French mainland and hosts one of the lighthouses yielding the way into the English channel. The ferry trip included surprisingly big waves which left some participants seasick, but everyone recovered fast. After around one and a half hours we arrived, picked up the bicycles, and spent the rest of the day roaming the island. The weather forecast was originally very cloudy and 18 C, but over noon this turned into sunny and warm, so many got an unplanned sunburn. I enjoyed the trip very much - it made up for not having time visiting the city during the week. After returning, we spent the rest of the evening playing DebConf's standard game, Mao (spoiler alert: don't follow the link if you ever intend to play).
Having a nice day (photo: Christoph Berg)
Thursday, July 17th The next day started with the traditional "Meet the Technical Committee" session. This year, we trimmed the usual slide deck down to remove the boring boilerplate parts, so after a very short introduction to the work of the committee by our chairman Matthew Vernon, we opened up the discussion with the audience, with seven (out of 8) TC members on stage. I think the format worked very well, with good input from attendees. Next up was "Don't fear the TPM" by Jonathan McDowell. A common misconception in the Free Software community is that the TPM is evil DRM hardware working against the user, but while it could be used in theory that way, the necessary TPM attestations seem to impossible to attain in practice, so that wouldn't happen anyway. Instead, it is a crypto coprocessor present in almost all modern computers that can be used to hold keys, for example to be used for SSH. It will also be interesting to research if we can make use of it for holding the Transparent Data Encryption keys for CYBERTEC's PostgreSQL Enterprise Edition. Aigars Mahinovs then directed everyone in place for the DebConf group picture, and Lucas Nussbaum started a discussion about archive-wide QA tasks in Debian, an area where I did a lot of work in the past and that still interests me. Antonio Terceiro and Paul Gevers followed up with techniques to track archive-wide rebuilding and testing of packages and in turn filing a lot of bugs to track the problems. The evening ended with the conference dinner, again in the fort close by the coast. DebConf is good for meeting new people, and I incidentally ran into another Chris, who happened to be one of the original maintainers of pgaccess, the pre-predecessor of today's pgadmin. I admit still missing this PostgreSQL frontend for its simplicity and ability to easily edit table data, but it disappeared around 2004. Friday, July 18th On Friday, I participated in discussion sessions around contributors.debian.org (PostgreSQL is planning to set up something similar) and the New Member process which I had helped to run and reform a decade or two ago. Agathe Porte (also a Ham radio operator, like so many others at the conference I had no idea of) then shared her work on rust-rewriting the slower parts of Lintian, the Debian package linter. Craig Small talked about "Free as in Bytes", the evolution of the Linux procps free command. Over the time and many kernel versions, the summary numbers printed became better and better, but there will probably never be a version that suits all use cases alike. Later over dinner, Craig (who is also a TC member) and I shared our experiences with these numbers and customers (not) understanding them. He pointed out that for PostgreSQL and looking at used memory in the presence of large shared memory buffers, USS (unique set size) and PSS (proportional set size) should be more realistic numbers than the standard RSS (resident set size) that the top utility is showing by default. Antonio Terceiro and Paul Gevers again joined to lead a session, now on ci.debian.net and autopkgtest, the test driver used for running tests on packages after then have been installed on a system. The PostgreSQL packages are heavily using this to make sure no regressions creep in even after builds have successfully completed and test re-runs are rescheduled periodically. The day ended with Bdale Garbee's electronics team BoF and Paul Tagliamonte and me setting up the radio station in the courtyard, again answering countless questions about ionospheric conditions and operating practice. Saturday, July 19th Saturday was the last conference day. In the first session, Nikos Tsipinakis and Federico Vaga from CERN announced that the LHC will be moving to Debian for the accelerator's frontend computers in their next "long shutdown" maintenance period in the next year. CentOS broke compatibility too often, and Debian trixie together with the extended LTS support will cover the time until the next long shutdown window in 2035, until when the computers should have all been replaced with newer processors covering higher x86_64 baseline versions. The audience was very delighted to hear that Debian is now also being used in this prestige project. Ben Hutchings then presented new Linux kernel features. Particularly interesting for me was the support for atomic writes spanning more than one filesystem block. When configured correctly, this would mean PostgreSQL didn't have to record full-page images in the WAL anymore, increasing throughput and performance. After that, the Debian ftp team discussed ways to improve review of new packages in the archive, and which of their processes could be relaxed with new US laws around Open Source and cryptography algorithms export. Emmanuel Arias led a session on Salsa CI, Debian's Gitlab instance and standard CI pipeline. (I think it's too slow, but the runners are not under their control.) Julian Klode then presented new features in APT, Debian's package manager. I like the new display format (and a tiny bit of that is also from me sending in wishlist bugs). In the last round of sessions this week, I then led the Ham radio BoF with an introduction into the hobby and how Debian can be used. Bdale mentioned that the sBitx family of SDR radios is natively running Debian, so stock packages can be used from the radio's touch display. We also briefly discussed his involvement in ARDC and the possibility to get grants from them for Ham radio projects. Finally, DebConf wrapped up with everyone gathering in the main auditorium and cheering the organizers for making the conference possible and passing Pollito, the DebConf mascot, to the next organizer team.
Pollito on stage (photo: Christoph Berg)
Sunday, July 20th Zoom back to the train: I made it through the Paris metro and I'm now on the Eurostar back to Germany. It has been an intense week with all the conference sessions and meeting all the people I had not seen so long. There are a lot of new ideas to follow up on both for my Debian and PostgreSQL work. Next year's DebConf will take place in Santa Fe, Argentina. I haven't yet decided if I will be going, but I can recommend the experience to everyone! The post The Debian Conference 2025 in Brest appeared first on CYBERTEC PostgreSQL Services & Support.

12 July 2025

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, June 2025 (by Roberto C. S nchez)

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering.

Debian LTS contributors In June, 20 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:
  • Abhijith PA did 14.0h (out of 14.0h assigned).
  • Adrian Bunk did 23.5h (out of 23.5h assigned).
  • Andreas Henriksson did 3.0h (out of 3.0h assigned and 17.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 17.0h to the next month.
  • Andrej Shadura did 2.0h (out of 3.0h assigned and 7.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.0h to the next month.
  • Bastien Roucari s did 20.0h (out of 20.0h assigned).
  • Ben Hutchings did 8.0h (out of 7.5h assigned and 16.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 15.5h to the next month.
  • Carlos Henrique Lima Melara did 12.0h (out of 12.0h assigned).
  • Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
  • Daniel Leidert did 22.0h (out of 22.5h assigned and 1.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 1.5h to the next month.
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 23.5h (out of 16.75h assigned and 6.75h from previous period).
  • Guilhem Moulin did 14.0h (out of 11.5h assigned and 3.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 1.0h to the next month.
  • Jochen Sprickerhof did 21.0h (out of 0.5h assigned and 22.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 2.25h to the next month.
  • Lucas Kanashiro did 20.0h (out of 20.0h assigned).
  • Markus Koschany did 23.25h (out of 17.0h assigned and 6.25h from previous period).
  • Roberto C. S nchez did 21.25h (out of 20.75h assigned and 3.25h from previous period), thus carrying over 2.75h to the next month.
  • Santiago Ruano Rinc n did 12.75h (out of 15.0h assigned), thus carrying over 2.25h to the next month.
  • Sean Whitton did 1.0h (out of 4.25h assigned and 1.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 5.0h to the next month.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 23.5h (out of 23.5h assigned).
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 15.0h (out of 15.0h assigned).
  • Tobias Frost did 2.5h (out of 12.0h assigned), thus carrying over 9.5h to the next month.

Evolution of the situation In June, we released 35 DLAs.
  • Notable security updates:
    • mariadb-10.5, prepared by Otto Kek l inen, fixes vulnerabilities which could result in denial of service, information disclosure, or unauthorized data modification
    • python-django, prepared by Chris Lamb, fixes vulnerabilities which would result in log injection or denial of service
    • webkit2gtk, prepared by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, fixes many vulnerabilities which could results in a wide range of issues
    • xorg-server, prepared by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, fixes multiple vulnerabilities which may result in privilege escalation
    • sudo, prepared by Thorsten Alteholz, fixes a vulnerability which could result in privilege escalation
  • Notable non-security updates:
    • debian-security-support, prepared by Santiago Ruano Rinc n, updates status of packages which receive limited security support or which have reached the end of security support
    • dns-root-data, prepared by Sylvain Beucler, updates the DNSSEC trust anchors
This month s contributions from outside the regular team include the mariadb-10.5 update mentioned above, prepared by Otto Kek l inen (the package maintainer); an update to libfile-find-rule-perl, prepared by Salvatore Bonaccorso (a member of the Debian Security Team); an update to activemq, prepared by Emmanuel Arias (a maintainer of the package). Additionally, LTS Team members contributed stable updates of the following packages:
  • curl, prepared by Carlos Henrique Lima Melara
  • python-tornado, prepared by Daniel Leidert
  • python-flask-cors, prepared by Daniel Leidert
  • common-vfs, prepared by Daniel Leidert
  • cjson, prepared by Adrian Bunk
  • icu, prepared by Adrian Bunk
  • node-tar-fs, prepared by Adrian Bunk
  • rar, prepared by Adrian Bunk
Something of particular noteworthiness is that LTS contributor Carlos Henrique Lima Melara discovered a regression in the upstream fix for CVE-2023-2753 in curl. The corrective action which he took included providing a patch to upstream, uploading a stable update of curl, and further updating the version of curl in LTS. DebConf, the annual Debian Conference, is coming up in July and, as is customary each year, the week preceding the conference will feature an event called DebCamp. The DebCamp week provides an opportunity for teams and other interested groups/individuals to meet together in person in the same venue as the conference itself, with the purpose of doing focused work, often called sprints . LTS coordinator Roberto C. S nchez has announced that the LTS Team is planning to hold a sprint primarily focused on the Debian security tracker and the associated tooling used by the LTS Team and the Debian Security Team.

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