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12 April 2023

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Debian Developer Survey Results, DebConf updates, and more! (by Utkarsh Gupta)

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.

Results of the Debian Developer Survey, by Roberto C. S nchez In 2022, Freexian polled Debian Developers about the usage of money in Debian. More than 200 Debian Developers graciously participated, providing useful and constructive answers. Roberto and Utkarsh have worked on reviewing this feedback and summarizing it in a report recently published and announced to the project.

DebConf 23 Website, by Stefano Rivera In preparation for DebConf 23, Stefano did some work on the DebConf website s registration system. To support an expected large number of local registration requests, and a limited venue size, Stefano added a review system for registration requests. There was also some infrastructure work for the website framework. We use the same framework for miniconfs and DebConf, but without the full registration system. Since last DebConf, we have migrated from a pure-JS toolchain for the static assets, to django-compressor, to be friendlier to contributors and have a simpler dependency setup. This required some updates in the full-DebConf registration system that hadn t been noticed yet in miniDebConfs. Finally, with Utkarsh, we started to wind up the DebConf 22 travel bursary reimbursement process.

Debian Reimbursements Web App Progress, by Stefano Rivera In a project funded by Freexian s Project Funding initiative, Stefano made some more progress on the Debian Reimbursements Web App. The first rough implementation core request lifecycle is almost complete. Receipts can be collected and itemized, and the request can be submitted for a reimbursement request.

Debian Printing, by Thorsten Alteholz Due to the upcoming release, only bug fixing uploads are allowed in this part of the release cycle and Thorsten did uploads of three Debian Printing packages. The upload of hplip was rather straightforward and five bugs could be closed. cups-filters suddenly started to FTBFS and thus got an RC bug. It failed due to a compile error in a header file of some dependency. Luckily the maintainer of that dependency knew that his package now needed c++17, so the fix was to just remove an old compile flag that forced the compiler to use c++0x. This flag was once progressive but nowadays it is more of a hindrance than a help. The third package upload was for cups, which got some translation updates. Unfortunately this was the most tricky one as some translations did not appear in the binary packages. After debugging for some time, it turned out that the handling of links did not work properly. Now the version in Bookworm will be the cups version with the most translated man pages ever.

Miscellaneous contributions
  • Stefano Rivera updated a few Python modules in the Debian Python Team, to the latest upstream versions.
  • Stefano Rivera reviewed the current patch series applied to Python 3.12, as an Arch package maintainer had noticed that we dropped a patch by mistake, and reinstated it.
  • Anton Gladky prepared an upload of newer version (9.2.6) of vtk library and uploaded it into the experimental due to a freeze. VTK is the visualization kit - a library used mostly for scientific and engineering applications to visualize complex objects. Transition of dependent packages is planned on after-release phase.
  • Helmut Grohne, in the continual effort to improve Debian s cross-build support, provided 22 cross-build patches to packages in the archive.

20 March 2023

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, February 2023 (by LTS Team)

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

Debian LTS contributors In February, 15 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:
  • Adrian Bunk did 22.0h (out of 32.25h assigned), thus carrying over 10.25h to the next month.
  • Anton Gladky did 9.75h (out of 11.5h assigned and 3.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 5.25h to the next month.
  • Ben Hutchings did 8.0h (out of 8.0h assigned and 16.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 16.0h to the next month.
  • Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 26.25h (out of 0h assigned and 35.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.75h to the next month.
  • Guilhem Moulin did 20.0h (out of 20.0h assigned).
  • Helmut Grohne did 5.0h (out of 5.0h assigned and 5.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 5.0h to the next month.
  • Lee Garrett did 26.75h (out of 19.75h assigned and 12.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 5.5h to the next month.
  • Markus Koschany did 32.25h (out of 32.25h assigned).
  • Ola Lundqvist did 11.5h (out of 12.5h assigned and 11.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 12.5h to the next month.
  • Roberto C. S nchez did 5.0h (out of 9.5h assigned and 22.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 27.0h to the next month.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 32.0h (out of 17.25h assigned and 15.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 0.25h to the next month.
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 8.0h (out of 14.0h assigned), thus carrying over 6.0h to the next month.
  • Tobias Frost did 16.0h (out of 16.0h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 24.25h (out of 49.25h assigned), thus carrying over 8.0h to the next month.

Evolution of the situation In February, we have released 44 DLAs, which resolved 156 CVEs. We are glad to welcome some new contributors who will hopefully help us fix CVEs in the supported release even faster. However, we also experienced some setbacks as a few sponsors have stopped (or decreased) their support. If your company ever hesitated to sponsor Debian LTS, now might be a good time to join to ensure that we can continue this important work without having to scale down on the number of packages that we are able to support.

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

15 March 2023

Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Core python package, Redmine backports, and more! (by Utkarsh Gupta, Stefano Rivera)

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.

Core Python Packages, by Stefano Rivera Just before the freeze, pip added support for PEP-668. This is a scheme devised by Debian with other distributions and the Python Packaging Authority, to allow distributors to mark Python installations as being managed by a distribution package manager. When this EXTERNALLY-MANAGED flag is present, installers like pip will refuse to install packages outside a virtual environment. This protects users from breaking unrelated software on their systems, when installing packages with pip or similar tools. Stefano quickly got this version of pip into the archive, marked Debian s Python interpreters as EXTERNALLY-MANAGED, and worked with the upstream to add a mechanism to allow users to override the restriction. Debian bookworm will likely be the first distro release to implement this change. The transition from Python 3.10 to 3.11 was one of the last to complete before the bookworm freeze (as 3.11 only released at the end of October 2022). Stefano helped port some Python packages to 3.11, in January, and also kicked off the final transition to remove Python 3.10 support. Stefano did a big round of bug triage in the cPython interpreter (and related) packages, applying some provided patches, and fixing some long-standing minor bugs in the packaging. To allow Debian packages to more accurately reflect upstream-specified dependencies that only apply under specific Python interpreter versions, in the future, Stefano added more metadata to the python3 binary package. Python s unittest runner would successfully exit with 0 passed tests, if it couldn t find any tests. This means that configuration / layout changes can cause test failures to go unnoticed, because the tests aren t being run any more in Debian packages. Stefano proposed a change to Python 3.12 to change this behavior and treat 0 tests as a kind of failure.

debvm, by Helmut Grohne With support from Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues, and Jochen Sprickerhof, Helmut Grohne wrote debvm, a tool for quickly creating and running Debian virtual machine images for various architectures and Debian and Ubuntu releases. This is meant for development and testing purposes and has already identified a number of bugs in e.g. fakechroot (#1029490), Linux (#1029270), and runit (#1028181).

Rails 6 and Redmine 5 available in bullseye-backports, by Utkarsh Gupta Bullseye users can now upgrade to the latest 6.1 branch of Rails, v6.1.7, and the latest Redmine version, v5.0.4. The Ruby team received numerous requests to backport the latest version of Rails and Redmine, especially since there was no redmine shipped in the bullseye release itself. So this is big news for all users as we ve not only successfully backported both the packages, but also fixed all the CVEs and RC bugs in the process! This work was sponsored by Entrouvert.

Patches metadata in the Package Tracker, by Rapha l Hertzog Building on the great Ultimate Debian Database work of Lucas Nussbaum and on his suggestion, Rapha l enhanced the Debian Package Tracker to display action items when the patches metadata indicate that some patches were not forwarded upstream, or when the metadata were invalid. One can now also browse the patches metadata from the Links panel on the right.

Fixed kernel bug that broke debian-installer on computers with Mediatek wifi devices, by Helmut Grohne As part of our regular work on Kali Linux for OffSec, they funded Helmut s work to fix the MT7921e driver. When being loaded without firmware available, it would not register itself, but upon module release it would unregister itself causing a kernel oops. This was commonly observed in Kali Linux when reloading the module to add firmware. Helmut Grohne identified the cause and sent a patch, a different variant of which is now heading into Linux and available from Kali Linux.

Printing in Debian, by Thorsten Alteholz There are about 40 packages in Debian that take care of sending output to printers, scan documents, or even send documents to fax machines. In the light of the upcoming/already ongoing freeze, these packages had to be updated to the latest version and bugs had to be fixed. Basically this applies to large packages like cups, cups-filters, hplip but also the smaller ones that shouldn t be neglected. All in all Thorsten uploaded 13 packages with new upstream versions or improved packaging and could resolve 14 bugs. Further triaging led to 35 bugs that could be closed, either because they were already fixed and not closed in an earlier upload or they could not be reproduced with current software versions. There is also work to do to prepare for the future. Historically, printing on Linux required finding a PPD file for your printer and finding some software that is able to render your documents with this PPD. These days, driverless printing is becoming more common and the use of PPD files has decreased. In the upcoming version 3.0 of cups, PPD files are no longer supported and so called printer applications need to be used. In order not to lose the ability to print documents, this big transition needs to be carefully planned. This started in the beginning of 2023 and will hopefully be finished with the release of Debian Trixie. More information can be found in this Debian Printing Wiki article. In preparation for this transition Thorsten created three new packages.

Yade update, by Anton Gladky Last month, Anton updated the yade package to the newest 2023.02a version, which includes new features. Yade is a software package for discrete element method (DEM) simulations, which are widely used in scientific and engineering fields for the simulation of granular systems. Yade is an open-source project that is being used worldwide for different tasks, such as geomechanics, civil engineering, mining, and materials science. The Yade package in Debian supports different precision levels for its simulations. This means that researchers and engineers can select the needed precision level without recompiling the package, saving time and effort.

Miscellaneous contributions
  • Helmut Grohne continues to improve cross building (mostly Qt) and architecture bootstrap (mostly loong64 and musl).

28 February 2023

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in February 2023

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

Debian
This was my 50th month of actively contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas 19! \o/ There s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month:

Uploads

Others
  • Looked up some Release team documentation.
  • Sponsored php-font-lib and php-dompdf-svg-lib for William.
  • Granted DM rights for php-dompdf.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • Reviewed micro bits for Nilesh, new uploads and changes.
  • Ruby sprints.
  • Bug work (on BTS and #debian-ruby) for rails and redmine.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.
A huge thanks to Freexian for sponsoring my Debian work and Entrouvert for sponsoring the Redmine backports. :D

Ubuntu
This was my 25th month of actively contributing to Ubuntu. Now that I joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time, there s a bunch of things I do! \o/ I mostly worked on different things, I guess. I was too lazy to maintain a list of things I worked on so there s no concrete list atm. Maybe I ll get back to this section later or will start to list stuff from the fall, as I was doing before. :D

Debian (E)LTS
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success. And Debian Extended LTS (ELTS) is its sister project, extending support to the stretch and jessie release (+2 years after LTS support). This was my forty-first month as a Debian LTS and thirty-second month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I worked for 24.25 hours for LTS and 28.50 hours for ELTS.

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:
  • Fixed CVE-2022-47016 for tmux and uploaded to buster via 2.8-3+deb10u1.
    But decided to not roll the DLA for the package as the CVE got rejected upstream.
  • Issued DLA 3359-1, fixing CVE-2019-13038 and CVE-2021-3639, for libapache2-mod-auth-mellon.
    For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 0.14.2-1+deb10u1.
  • Issued DLA 3360-1, fixing CVE-2021-30151 and CVE-2022-23837, for ruby-sidekiq.
    For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 5.2.3+dfsg-1+deb10u1.
  • Worked on ruby-rails-html-sanitize and added notes to the security-tracker.
    TL;DR: we need newer methods in ruby-loofah to make the patches for ruby-rails-html-sanitize backportable.
  • Started to look at other set of packages meanwhile.

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:
  • Issued ELA 813-1, fixing CVE-2017-12618 and CVE-2022-25147, for apr-util.
    For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1.5.4-1+deb8u1.
    For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1.5.4-3+deb9u1.
  • Issued ELA 814-1, fixing CVE-2022-39286, for jupyter-core.
    For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 4.2.1-1+deb9u1.
  • Issued ELA 815-1, fixing CVE-2022-44792 and CVE-2022-44793, for net-snmp.
    For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 5.7.2.1+dfsg-1+deb8u6.
    For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 5.7.3+dfsg-1.7+deb9u5.
  • Helped facilitate RabbitMQ s update queries by one of our customers.
  • Started to look at other set of packages meanwhile.

Other (E)LTS Work:
Until next time.
:wq for today.

21 February 2023

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, January 2023 (by Anton Gladky)

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. This is the first monthly report in 2023.

Debian LTS contributors In January, 17 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS. which is possibly the highest number of active contributors per month! Their reports are available:
  • Abhijith PA did 0.0h (out of 3.0h assigned and 11.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 14.0h to the next month.
  • Adrian Bunk did 26.25h (out of 26.25h assigned).
  • Anton Gladky did 11.5h (out of 8.0h assigned and 7.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 3.5h to the next month.
  • Ben Hutchings did 8.0h (out of 24.0h assigned), thus carrying over 16.0h to the next month.
  • Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 8.0h (out of 0h assigned and 43.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 35.0h to the next month.
  • Guilhem Moulin did 20.0h (out of 17.5h assigned and 2.5h from previous period).
  • Helmut Grohne did 10.0h (out of 15.0h assigned), thus carrying over 5.0h to the next month.
  • Lee Garrett did 7.5h (out of 20.0h assigned), thus carrying over 12.5h to the next month.
  • Markus Koschany did 26.25h (out of 26.25h assigned).
  • Ola Lundqvist did 4.5h (out of 10.0h assigned and 6.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 11.5h to the next month.
  • Roberto C. S nchez did 3.75h (out of 18.75h assigned and 7.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 22.5h to the next month.
  • Stefano Rivera did 4.5h (out of 0h assigned and 32.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 28.0h to the next month.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 23.5h (out of 0h assigned and 38.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 15.0h to the next month.
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 14.0h (out of 10.0h assigned and 4.0h from previous period).
  • Tobias Frost did 19.0h (out of 19.0h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 43.25h (out of 26.25h assigned and 17.0h from previous period).

Evolution of the situation Furthermore, we released 46 DLAs in January, which resolved 146 CVEs. We are working diligently to reduce the number of packages listed in dla-needed.txt, and currently, we have 55 packages listed. We are constantly growing and seeking new contributors. If you are a Debian Developer and want to join the LTS team, please contact us.

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

16 January 2023

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, December 2022 (by Anton Gladky)

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

Debian LTS contributors In December, 17 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:
  • Abhijith PA did 3.0h (out of 0h assigned and 14.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 11.0h to the next month.
  • Anton Gladky did 8.0h (out of 6.0h assigned and 9.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 7.0h to the next month.
  • Ben Hutchings did 24.0h (out of 9.0h assigned and 15.0h from previous period).
  • Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
  • Dominik George did 0.0h (out of 10.0h assigned and 14.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 24.0h to the next month.
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 8.0h in December, 8.0h in November (out of 1.5h assigned and 49.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 43.0h to the next month.
  • Enrico Zini did 0.0h (out of 0h assigned and 8.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.0h to the next month.
  • Guilhem Moulin did 17.5h (out of 20.0h assigned), thus carrying over 2.5h to the next month.
  • Helmut Grohne did 15.0h (out of 15.0h assigned, 2.5h were taken from the extra-budget and worked on).
  • Markus Koschany did 40.0h (out of 40.0h assigned).
  • Ola Lundqvist did 10.0h (out of 7.5h assigned and 8.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 6.0h to the next month.
  • Roberto C. S nchez did 24.5h (out of 20.25h assigned and 11.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 7.5h to the next month.
  • Stefano Rivera did 2.5h (out of 20.5h assigned and 14.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 32.5h to the next month.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 20.5h (out of 37.0h assigned and 22.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 38.5h to the next month.
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 10.0h (out of 14.0h assigned), thus carrying over 4.0h to the next month.
  • Tobias Frost did 16.0h (out of 16.0h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 51.5h (out of 42.5h assigned and 9.0h from previous period).

Evolution of the situation In December, we have released 47 DLAs, closing 232 CVEs. In the same year, in total we released 394 DLAs, closing 1450 CVEs. We are constantly growing and seeking new contributors. If you are a Debian Developer and want to join the LTS team, please contact us.

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

30 December 2022

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in December 2022

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

Debian
This was my 48th month of actively contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas 19! \o/ There s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month:
  • Some DebConf work.
  • Sponsoring stuff for non-DDs.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.

Ubuntu
This was my 23rd month of actively contributing to Ubuntu. Now that I joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time, there s a bunch of things I do! \o/ I mostly worked on different things, I guess. I was too lazy to maintain a list of things I worked on so there s no concrete list atm. Maybe I ll get back to this section later or will start to list stuff from the fall, as I was doing before. :D

Debian (E)LTS
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success. And Debian Extended LTS (ELTS) is its sister project, extending support to the stretch and jessie release (+2 years after LTS support). This was my thirty-ninth month as a Debian LTS and thirtieth month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I worked for 51.50 hours for LTS and 22.50 hours for ELTS.

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:
  • Issued ELA 752-1, fixing CVE-2021-41182, CVE-2021-41183, CVE-2021-41184, and CVE-2022-31160, for jqueryui.
    For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1.12.1+dfsg-4+deb9u1.
  • Helped facilitate Erlang s and RabbitMQ s update; cf: ELA 754-1.
  • Looked through python3.4 s FTBFS on armhf. Even diff d with Ubuntu. No luck. Inspected the traces, doesn t give a lot of hint either. Will continue to look later next month or so but it s a rabbit hole. (:
  • Inspected joblib s security update upon Helmut s investigation and see what went wrong there.
  • Started to look at other set of packages: dropbear, tiff, et al.

Other (E)LTS Work:
Until next time.
:wq for today.

18 December 2022

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, November 2022 (by Anton Gladky)

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

Debian LTS contributors In November, 15 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:
  • Abhijith PA did 0.0h (out of 14.0h assigned), thus carrying over 14.0h to the next month.
  • Anton Gladky did 6.0h (out of 15.0h assigned), thus carrying over 9.0h to the next month.
  • Ben Hutchings did 9.0h (out of 24.0h assigned), thus carrying over 15.0h to the next month.
  • Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
  • Dominik George did 10.0h (out of 0h assigned and 24.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 14.0h to the next month.
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 0.0h (out of 38.0h assigned and 19.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 57.5h to the next month.
  • Enrico Zini did 0.0h (out of 0h assigned and 8.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.0h to the next month.
  • Helmut Grohne did 17.5h (out of 20.0h assigned).
  • Markus Koschany did 40.0h (out of 40.0h assigned).
  • Ola Lundqvist did 7.5h (out of 11.0h assigned and 5.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.5h to the next month.
  • Roberto C. S nchez did 20.25h (out of 0.75h assigned and 31.25h from previous period), thus carrying over 11.75h to the next month.
  • Stefano Rivera did 2.5h (out of 0h assigned and 17.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 14.5h to the next month.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 35.5h (out of 23.0h assigned and 34.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 22.0h to the next month.
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 14.0h (out of 14.0h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 41.0h (out of 32.5h assigned and 25.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 16.5h to the next month.

Evolution of the situation In November, we released 43 DLAs, fixing 183 CVEs. We currently have 63 packages in dla-needed.txt that are waiting for updates, which is 19 fewer than the previous month. We re excited to announce that two Debian Developers Tobias Frost and Guilhem Moulin, have completed the on-boarding process and will begin contributing to LTS as of December 2022. Welcome aboard!

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

30 November 2022

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in November 2022

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

Debian
This was my 47th month of actively contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas 19! \o/ There s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month:

Debian Uploads

Other $things:
  • Sponsoring stuff for non-DDs.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.

Ubuntu
This was my 22nd month of actively contributing to Ubuntu. Now that I joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time, there s a bunch of things I do! \o/ I mostly worked on different things, I guess. I was too lazy to maintain a list of things I worked on so there s no concrete list atm. Maybe I ll get back to this section later or will start to list stuff from the fall, as I was doing before. :D

Debian (E)LTS
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success. And Debian Extended LTS (ELTS) is its sister project, extending support to the stretch and jessie release (+2 years after LTS support). This was my thirty-eighth month as a Debian LTS and twenty-nine month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I worked for 41.00 hours for LTS and 30.25 hours for ELTS.

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:
  • Issued ELA 731-1, fixing CVE-2022-39377, for sysstat.
    For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 11.4.3-2+deb9u1.
    For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 11.0.1-1+deb8u1.
  • Issued ELA 749-1, fixing CVE-2022-41325, for vlc.
    For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.17.4-0+deb9u2.
  • Issued ELA 750-1 for a new upstream version update of clamav.
    For Debian 9 stretch, the package has been updated to version 0.103.7+dfsg-0+deb9u1. For Debian 8 jessie, the package has been updated to version 0.103.7+dfsg-0+deb8u1.
  • Started to look at other set of packages.

Other (E)LTS Work:
  • Front desk duty from 21-11 until 27-11 for both, LTS and ELTS.
  • Triaged jqueryui, open-vm-tools, systemd, ffmpeg, lava, pngcheck, snapd, vlc, g810-led, libpgjava, dropbear, python3.5, python3.4, clamav, systat, postgresql-11, and mariadb-10.1.
  • Marked CVE-2009-1143/open-vm-tools as postponed for buster, stretch and jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2022-45873/systemd as not-affected in stretch and jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2022-396 4,5 /ffmpeg as postponed for buster and stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2022-45061/python3. 4,5 as postponed for stretch and jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2022-31160/jqueryui as not-affected for jessie instead.
  • Noted CVE-2022-45061/python3.4 to be marked as postponed; only things to fix is the armhf FTBFS.
  • Auto EOL d linux, libpgjava, nvidia-graphics-drivers, maradns, chromium, and glance for ELTS.
  • Helped and assisted new contributors joining Freexian (LTS/ELTS/internally).
  • Answered questions (& discussions) on IRC (#debian-lts and #debian-elts) and Matrix.
  • Participated and helped fellow members with their queries via private mail and chat.
  • General and other discussions on LTS private and public mailing list.
  • Attended the monthly meeting held on IRC on November 24th.
Until next time.
:wq for today.

19 November 2022

Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, October 2022 (by Rapha l Hertzog)

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

Debian LTS contributors In October, 15 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:
  • Abhijith PA did 14.0h (out of 2.0h assigned and 12.0h from previous period).
  • Anton Gladky did 20.0h (out of 19.0h assigned and 1.0h from previous period).
  • Ben Hutchings did 9.0h (out of 0h assigned and 9.0h from previous period).
  • Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
  • Dominik George did 0.0h (out of 0h assigned and 24.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 24.0h to the next month.
  • Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 40.5h (out of 58.0h assigned and 2.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 19.5h to the next month.
  • Enrico Zini did 0.0h (out of 0h assigned and 8.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 8.0h to the next month.
  • Helmut Grohne did 15.0h (out of 15.0h assigned).
  • Markus Koschany did 40.0h (out of 40.0h assigned).
  • Ola Lundqvist did 7.0h (out of 12.0h assigned), thus carrying over 5.0h to the next month.
  • Roberto C. S nchez did 0.75h (out of 1.0h assigned and 31.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 31.25h to the next month.
  • Stefano Rivera did 12.5h (out of 9.0h assigned and 26.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 22.5h to the next month.
  • Sylvain Beucler did 25.5h (out of 31.5h assigned and 28.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 34.5h to the next month.
  • Thorsten Alteholz did 14.0h (out of 14.0h assigned).
  • Utkarsh Gupta did 35.0h (out of 38.0h assigned and 22.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 25.0h to the next month.

Evolution of the situation In October, we have released 42 DLAs, closing 106 CVEs. At the moment we have 82 packages in dla-needed.txt, waiting for update. We are continuously working on updating our infrastructure, trying to document all of our changes in the git-repo. Most of packages there are having continuous integration (CI) pipelines.

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30 October 2022

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in October 2022

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

Debian
This was my 46th month of actively contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas 19! \o/ There s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month:

Debian Uploads
  • ruby-espeak (1.1.0-1) - New upstream version, v1.1.0.

Other $things:
  • Being an AM for Arun Kumar, process #1024. Process completed. \o/
  • Sponsoring stuff for non-DDs.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.

Ubuntu
This was my 21st month of actively contributing to Ubuntu. Now that I joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time, there s a bunch of things I do! \o/ I mostly worked on different things, I guess. I was too lazy to maintain a list of things I worked on so there s no concrete list atm. Maybe I ll get back to this section later or will start to list stuff from the fall, as I was doing before. :D

Debian (E)LTS
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success. And Debian Extended LTS (ELTS) is its sister project, extending support to the Jessie release (+2 years after LTS support). This was my thirty-seventh month as a Debian LTS and twenty-eighth month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I worked for 35.00 hours for LTS and 25.00 hours for ELTS.

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:
  • Issued DLA 3146-1, fixing CVE-2022-2928 and CVE-2022-2929, for isc-dhcp.
    For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 4.4.1-2+deb10u2.
  • Issued DLA 3165-1, fixing CVE-2022-43680, for expat.
    For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.6-2+deb10u6.
  • Issued DLA 3166-1, fixing CVE-2022-29970, for ruby-sinatra.
    For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.5-4+deb10u1.
  • Uploaded dropbear to fix CVE-2021-36369 in buster. Waiting for ELTS upload to issue the DLA. But will do soon now.
  • src:joblib is a bit painful - having to backport patches to Py2. :/
  • Started to look at other set of packages.

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:
  • Issued ELA 715-1, fixing CVE-2022-43680, for expat.
    For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.0-2+deb9u7.
    For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.0-6+deb8u10.
  • Issued ELA 716-1, fixing CVE-2018-25045 and CVE-2020-25626, for djangorestframework.
    For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.0-2+deb9u1.
  • Uploaded dropbear to fix CVE-2021-36369 in buster. Waiting for ELTS upload, too. But some backporting problems. :/
  • src:joblib is a bit painful - having to backport patches to Py2. :/
  • Started to look at other set of packages.

Other (E)LTS Work:
  • Triaged joblib, dropbear, ruby-sinatra, djangorestframework, isc-dhcp, and expat.
  • Reverted Mark freerdp CVEs wrongly affecting freerdp <2.0.0 in the ELTS tracker.
  • Helped and assisted new contributors joining Freexian (LTS/ELTS).
  • Answered questions (& discussions) on IRC (#debian-lts and #debian-elts) and Matrix.
  • Participated and helped fellow members with their queries via private mail and chat.
  • General and other discussions on LTS private and public mailing list.
  • Attended the monthly meeting held on Jitsi on October 27th.
Until next time.
:wq for today.

30 September 2022

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in September 2022

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

Debian
This was my 45th month of actively contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas 19! \o/ There s a bunch of things I do, both, technical and non-technical. Here are the things I did this month:

Debian Uploads
  • rails (2:6.1.6.1+dfsg-2) - Add patch to allow Symbols in YAML columns, fixes #1018934.
  • rails (2:6.1.6.1+dfsg-3) - Add patch to remove active_record.yaml initializers.
  • rails (2:6.1.6.1+dfsg-4) - Add patch to allow Date, Time, ActiveSupport::HashWithIndifferentAccess in YAML columns.
  • ruby-arbre (1.4.0-2) - Add patch to use selector to detect authenticity token input.
  • ruby-net-http-digest-auth (1.4.1-1) - New upstream version, v1.4.1 to fix the FTBFS w/ rails.
  • rails (2:6.1.7+dfsg-1) - New upstream version, v6.1.7+dfsg.
  • redmine (5.0.2-1) - New upstream version, v5.0.2 + fixes for #1017525, #1019607, #1019238, and #1014813.
  • redmine (5.0.2-2) - Add patch to relax pg s version for autopkgtest.
  • ruby-json-jwt (1.14.0-2) - No-change rebuild for unstable to fix #1011682.
  • libexporter-tiny-perl (1.004002-1) - New upstream version, v1.004002.

Other $things:
  • Sponsored php-nikic-fast-route/1.3.0-4~bpo11+1 for William.
  • Being an AM for Arun Kumar, process #1024.
  • Sponsoring stuff for non-DDs.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.

Ubuntu
This was my 20th month of actively contributing to Ubuntu. Now that I joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time, there s a bunch of things I do! \o/ I mostly worked on different things, I guess. I was too lazy to maintain a list of things I worked on so there s no concrete list atm. Maybe I ll get back to this section later or will start to list stuff from the fall, as I was doing before. :D

Debian (E)LTS
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success. And Debian Extended LTS (ELTS) is its sister project, extending support to the Jessie release (+2 years after LTS support). This was my thirty-sixth month as a Debian LTS and twenty-seventh month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I worked for 38.00 hours for LTS and 27.00 hours for ELTS.

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:
  • Rolled out announcement for src:flac.
  • Rolled out announcement for src:ruby-rack.
  • Issued DLA 3128-1, fixing CVE-2020-7677, for node-thenify.
    For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 3.3.0-1+deb10u1.
  • Issued DLA 3129-1, fixing CVE-2019-17545 and CVE-2021-45943, for gdal.
    For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.0+dfsg-1+deb10u1.
  • Looked at src:mbedtls which has about 18 CVEs opened in buster (including no-dsa).
    Also, spoke to the maintainer - they said they d be uncomfortable doing or reviewing the backport (although they initially said they d be happy to help).
  • Fixed src:rails regression via 2:6.1.6.1+dfsg-2, 2:6.1.6.1+dfsg-3, and 2:6.1.6.1+dfsg-4 for sid.
    CVE-2022-32224 broke the entire world. :)
  • Helped Abhijith figure out the regression fix for CVE-2022-32224.
    Also got that verified by the people who reported regression, Raphael, Sven, and Jude. The whole thread is on debian-lts@.

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:
  • Rolled out announcemnet for src:ruby-tzinfo.
  • Rolled out announcemnet for src:grubt.
  • Issued ELA 682-1, fixing CVE-2022-31676, for open-vm-tools.
    For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 2:10.1.5-5055683-4+deb9u3.
  • Issued ELA 691-1, fixing CVE-2020-21365, for wkhtmltopdf.
    For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 0.12.1-2+deb8u1.
    For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 0.12.3.2-3+deb9u1.
  • Issued ELA 692-1, fixing CVE-2022-37452, for exim4.
    For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 4.84.2-2+deb8u9.
    For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 4.89-2+deb9u9.
  • Started to look at src:tiff again. Has a lot of open issues. Haven t claimed the package officially yet, though. :)

Other (E)LTS Work:
  • Triaged rails, node-thenify, exim4, wkhtmltopdf, gdal, and mbedtls.
  • Marked CVE-2019-25050/gdal as not-affected for buster.
  • Marked CVE-2022-37451/exim4 as not-affected for stretch and jessie; following buster and bullseye.
  • Helped and assisted new contributors joining Freexian (LTS/ELTS).
  • Answered questions (& discussions) on IRC (#debian-lts and #debian-elts) and Matrix.
  • Participated and helped fellow members with their queries via private mail and chat.
  • General and other discussions on LTS private and public mailing list.
  • Attended the monthly public meeting held on #debian-lts on September 29th.
Until next time.
:wq for today.

31 August 2022

Rapha&#235;l Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, July 2022

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Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding No any major updates on running projects.
Two 1, 2 projects are in the pipeline now.
Tryton project is in a review phase. Gradle projects is still fighting in work. In July, we put aside 2389 EUR to fund Debian projects. We re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In July, 14 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Evolution of the situation In July, we have released 3 DLAs. July was the period, when the Debian Stretch had already ELTS status, but Debian Buster was still in the hands of security team. Many member of LTS used this time to update internal infrastructure, documentation and some internal tickets. Now we are ready to take the next release in our hands: Buster! Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

26 July 2022

Rapha&#235;l Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, June 2022

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Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding No any major updates on running projects.
Two 1, 2 projects are in the pipeline now.
Tryton project is in a review phase. Gradle projects is still fighting in work. In June, we put aside 2254 EUR to fund Debian projects. We re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In June, 15 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Evolution of the situation In June we released 27 DLAs.

This is a special month, where we have two releases (stretch and jessie) as ELTS and NO release as LTS. Buster is still handled by the security team and will probably be given in LTS hands at the beginning of the August. During this month we are updating the infrastructure, documentation and improve our internal processes to switch to a new release.
Many developers have just returned back from Debconf22, hold in Prizren, Kosovo! Many (E)LTS members could meet face-to-face and discuss some technical and social topics! Also LTS BoF took place, where the project was introduced (link to video).
Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold. We are pleased to welcome Alter Way where their support of Debian is publicly acknowledged at the higher level, see this French quote of Alterway s CEO.

23 June 2022

Rapha&#235;l Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, May 2022

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Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding Two [1, 2] projects are in the pipeline now. Tryton project is in a final phase. Gradle projects is fighting with technical difficulties. In May, we put aside 2233 EUR to fund Debian projects. We re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In May, 14 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Evolution of the situation In May we released 49 DLAs. The security tracker currently lists 71 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 65 packages needing an update. The number of paid contributors increased significantly, we are pleased to welcome our latest team members: Andreas R nnquist, Dominik George, Enrico Zini and Stefano Rivera. It is worth pointing out that we are getting close to the end of the LTS period for Debian 9. After June 30th, no new security updates will be made available on security.debian.org. We are preparing to overtake Debian 10 Buster for the next two years and to make this process as smooth as possible. But Freexian and its team of paid Debian contributors will continue to maintain Debian 9 going forward for the customers of the Extended LTS offer. If you have Debian 9 servers to keep secure, it s time to subscribe! You might not have noticed, but Freexian formalized a mission statement where we explain that our purpose is to help improve Debian. For this, we want to fund work time for the Debian developers that recently joined Freexian as collaborators. The Extended LTS and the PHP LTS offers are built following a model that will help us to achieve this if we manage to have enough customers for those offers. So consider subscribing: you help your organization but you also help Debian! Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

3 June 2022

Rapha&#235;l Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, April 2022

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Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding Two projects are currently in the pipeline: Gradle enterprise and Tryton update. Progress is quite slow on the Gradle one, there are technical difficulties. The tryton one was stalled because the developer had not enough time but seems to progress smoothly in the last weeks. In April, we put aside 2635 EUR to fund Debian projects. We re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In April, 11 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Evolution of the situation In April we released 30 DLAs and we were glad to welcome a new customer with Alter Way. The security tracker currently lists 72 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 71 packages needing an update. It is worth pointing out that we are getting close to the end of the LTS period for Debian 9. After June 30th, no new security updates will be made available on security.debian.org. But Freexian and its team of paid Debian contributors will continue to maintain Debian 9 going forward for the customers of the Extended LTS offer. If you have Debian 9 servers to keep secure, it s time to subscribe! You might not have noticed, but Freexian formalized a mission statement where we explain that our purpose is to help improve Debian. For this, we want to fund work time for the Debian developers that recently joined Freexian as collaborators. The Extended LTS and the PHP LTS offers are built following a model that will help us to achieve this if we manage to have enough customers for those offers. So consider subscribing: you help your organization but you also help Debian! Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

18 May 2022

Louis-Philippe V ronneau: Clojure Team 2022 Sprint Report

This is the report for the Debian Clojure Team remote sprint that took place on May 13-14th. Looking at my previous blog entries, this was my first Debian sprint since July 2020! Crazy how fast time flies... Many thanks to those who participated, namely: Sadly, Utkarsh Gupta although having planned on participating ended up not being able to and worked on DebConf Bursary paperwork instead. rlb Rob mostly worked on creating a dh-clojure tool to help make packaging Clojure libraries easier. At the moment, most of the packaging is done manually, by invoking build tools by hand. Having a tool to automate many of the steps required to build Clojure packages would go a long way in making them more uniform. His work (although still very much a WIP) can be found here: https://salsa.debian.org/rlb/dh-clojure/ ehashman Elana: lavamind It was J r me's first time working on Clojure packages, and things went great! During the sprint, he: allentiak Leandro joined us on Saturday, since he couldn't get off work on Friday. He mostly continued working on replacing our in-house scripts for /usr/bin/clojure by upstream's, a task he had already started during GSoC 2021. Sadly, none of us were familiar with Debian's mechanism for alternatives. If you (yes you, dear reader) are familiar with it, I'm sure he would warmly welcome feedback on his development branch. pollo As for me, I: Overall, it was quite a productive sprint! Thanks to Debian for sponsoring our food during the sprint. It was nice to be able to concentrate on fixing things instead of making food :) Here's a bonus picture of the nice sushi platter I ended up getting for dinner on Saturday night: Picture of a sushi platter

10 May 2022

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in April 2022

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

Debian
This was my 40th month of actively contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas 19! \o/ There s a bunch of things I did this month but mostly non-technical, now that DC22 is around the corner. Here are the things I did:

Debian Uploads
  • Helped Andrius w/ FTBFS for php-text-captcha, reported via #977403.
    • I fixed the samed in Ubuntu a couple of months ago and they copied over the patch here.

Other $things:
  • Volunteering for DC22 Content team.
  • Leading the Bursary team w/ Paulo.
  • Answering a bunch of questions of referees and attendees around bursary.
  • Being an AM for Arun Kumar, process #1024.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.

Ubuntu
This was my 15th month of actively contributing to Ubuntu. Now that I joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time, there s a bunch of things I do! \o/ I mostly worked on different things, I guess. I was too lazy to maintain a list of things I worked on so there s no concrete list atm. Maybe I ll get back to this section later or will start to list stuff from the fall, as I was doing before. :D

Debian (E)LTS
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success. And Debian Extended LTS (ELTS) is its sister project, extending support to the Jessie release (+2 years after LTS support). This was my thirty-first month as a Debian LTS and twentieth month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I worked for 23.25 hours for LTS and 20.00 hours for ELTS.

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:
  • Issued DLA 2976-1, fixing CVE-2022-1271, for gzip.
    For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 1.6-5+deb9u1.
  • Issued DLA 2977-1, fixing CVE-2022-1271, for xz-utils.
    For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 5.2.2-1.2+deb9u1.
  • Working on src:tiff and src:mbedtls to fix the issues, still waiting for more issues to be reported, though.
  • Looking at src:mutt CVEs. Haven t had the time to complete but shall roll out next month.

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:
  • Issued ELA 593-1, fixing CVE-2022-1271, for gzip.
    For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1.6-4+deb8u1.
  • Issued ELA 594-1, fixing CVE-2022-1271, for xz-utils.
    For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+deb8u1.
  • Issued ELA 598-1, fixing CVE-2019-16935, CVE-2021-3177, and CVE-2021-4189, for python2.7.
    For Debian 8 jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 2.7.9-2-ds1-1+deb8u9.
  • Working on src:tiff and src:beep to fix the issues, still waiting for more issues to be reported for src:tiff and src:beep is a bit of a PITA, though. :)

Other (E)LTS Work:
  • Triaged gzip, xz-utils, tiff, beep, python2.7, python-django, and libgit2,
  • Signed up to be a Freexian Collaborator! \o/
  • Read through some bits around that.
  • Helped and assisted new contributors joining Freexian.
  • Answered questions (& discussions) on IRC (#debian-lts and #debian-elts).
  • General and other discussions on LTS private and public mailing list.
  • Attended monthly Debian meeting. Held on Jitsi this month.

Debian LTS Survey I ve spent 18 hours on the LTS survey on the following bits:
  • Rolled out the announcement. Started the survey.
  • Answered a bunch of queries, people asked via e-mail.
  • Looked at another bunch of tickets: https://salsa.debian.org/freexian-team/project-funding/-/issues/23.
  • Sent a reminder and fixed a few things here and there.
  • Gave a status update during the meeting.
  • Extended the duration of the survey.
Until next time.
:wq for today.

28 April 2022

Rapha&#235;l Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, March 2022

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Every month we review the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Please find the report for March below. Debian project funding Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In March, 11 contributors were paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available below. If you re interested in participating in the LTS or ELTS teams, we welcome participation from the Debian community. Simply get in touch with Jeremiah or Rapha l if you are if you are interested in participating. Evolution of the situation In March we released 42 DLAs. The security tracker currently lists 81 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 52 packages needing an update. We re glad to welcome a few new sponsors such as lectricit de France (Gold sponsor), Telecats BV and Soliton Systems. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

17 March 2022

Rapha&#235;l Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, February 2022

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Every month we review the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Please find the report for February below. Debian project funding Debian LTS contributors In February, 12 contributors were paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available below. If you re interested in participating in the LTS or ELTS teams, we welcome participation from the Debian community. Simply get in touch with Jeremiah or Rapha l if you are if you are interested in participating. Evolution of the situation In February we released 24 DLAs. The security tracker currently lists 61 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 26 packages needing an update. You can find out more about the Debian LTS project via the following video:
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