Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS. Individual reports In September, 208.25 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 12.0h (out of 14h assigned), thus carrying over 2h to October.
• Adrian Bunk did 14h (out of 19.75h assigned), thus carrying over 5.75h to October.
• Ben Hutchings did 8.25h (out of 16h assigned and 9.75h from August), but gave back 7.75h, thus carrying over 9.75h to October.
• Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 19.75h (out of 19.75h assigned).
• Holger Levsen did 5h coordinating/managing the LTS team.
• Markus Koschany did 31.75h (out of 19.75h assigned and 12h from August).
• Ola Lundqvist did 9.5h (out of 12h from August), thus carrying 2.5h to October.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 19.75h (out of 19.75h assigned).
• Sylvain Beucler did 19.75h (out of 19.75h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 19.75h (out of 19.75h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 8.75h (out of 19.75h assigned), while he already anticipated the remaining 11h in August.

Evolution of the situation September was a regular LTS month with an IRC meeting. The security tracker currently lists 45 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 48 packages needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 61 months)
• GitHub (for 51 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 28 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• Blablacar (for 76 months)
• Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 71 months)
• Linode (for 66 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 55 months)
• Plat Home (for 54 months)
• University of Oxford (for 10 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• The Positive Internet Company (for 77 months)
• Domeneshop AS (for 76 months)
• Nantes M tropole (for 70 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 62 months)
• Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 62 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 55 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 45 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 39 months)
• CINECA (for 29 months)
• Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 23 months)
• Cloudways Ltd (for 12 months)
• Dinahosting SL (for 10 months)
• Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 4 months)
• Platform.sh (for 4 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 77 months)
• Evolix (for 76 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 74 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 73 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 72 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 71 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 71 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 70 months)
• NUMLOG (for 70 months)
• WinGo AG (for 69 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 65 months)
• Entr ouvert (for 60 months)
• Adfinis AG (for 58 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 52 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 52 months)
• Tesorion (for 52 months)
• Bearstech (for 44 months)
• LiHAS (for 44 months)
• People Doc (for 40 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 38 months)
• Supagro (for 34 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 32 months)
• Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 18 months)
• TouchWeb SAS (for 10 months)
• SPiN AG (for 7 months)
• CoreFiling (for 3 months)

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Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report (+ the first week in October) that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you re interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you. Debian Games

• I spent most of the time this month to tackle remaining GCC 10 bugs in packages like nettoe, pcsxr, slimevolley (patch by Reiner Herrmann), openal-soft, slashem and alien-arena. I also investigated a build failure in gfpoken (#957271) and springlobby and finally uploaded a new revision of warzone2100 to address another FTBFS while building the PDF documentation.
• I packaged new upstream versions of blockattack and hitori.
• and sponsored a new release of mgba for Ryan Tandy.

Debian Java

• The focus was on two major packages this month, PDFsam, a tool to manipulate PDF files and Netbeans, one of the three well known Java IDEs. I basically updated every PDFsam related sejda dependency and packaged a new library libsejda-common-java, which is currently waiting in the NEW queue. As soon as this one has been approved, we should be able to see the latest release in Debian soon.
• Unfortunately I came to the conclusion that maintaining Netbeans in Debian is no longer a viable solution. I have been the sole maintainer for the past five years and managed to package the basic Java IDE in Stretch. I also had a 98% ready package for Buster but there were some bugs that made it unfit for a stable release in my opinion. The truth is, it takes a lot of time to patch Netbeans, just to make the build system DFSG compliant and to build the IDE from source. We have never managed to provide more functionality than the basic Java IDE features too. Still, we had to maintain dozens of build-dependencies and there was a constant struggle to make everything work with just a single version of a library. While the Debian way works great for most common projects, it doesn t scale very well for very complex ones like Java IDEs. Neither Eclipse nor Netbeans are really fully maintainable in Debian since they consist of hundreds of different jar files, even if the toolchain was perfect, it would require too much time to maintain all those Debian packages.
• I voiced that sentiment on our debian-java mailinglist while also discussing the situation of complex server packages like Apache Solr. Similar to Netbeans it requires hundreds of jar files to get running. I believe our users are better served in those cases by using tools like flatpak for desktop packages or jdeb for server packages. The idea is to provide a Debian toolchain which would download a source package from upstream and then use jdeb to create a Debian package. Thus we could provide packages for very complex Java software again, although only via the Debian contrib distribution. The pros are: software is available as Debian packages and integrates well with your system and considerably less time is needed to maintain such packages: Cons: not available in Debian main, no security support, not checked for DFSG compliance.
• Should we do that for all of our packages? No. This should really be limited to packages that otherwise would not be in Debian at all and are too complex to maintain, when even a whole team of normal contributors would struggle.
• Finally the consequences were: the Netbeans IDE has been removed from Debian main but the Netbeans platform package, libnb-platform18-java, is up-to-date again just like visualvm, which depends on it.
• New upstream releases were packaged for jboss-xnio, activemq, httpcomponents-client, jasypt and undertow to address several security vulnerabilities.
• I also packaged a new version of sweethome3d, an Interior 2D design application .

Misc

• The usual suspects: I updated binaryen and ublock-origin.
• I eventually filed a RFA for privacybadger. As I mentioned in my last post, the upstream maintainer would like to see regular updates in Debian stable but I don t want to regularly contribute time for this task. If someone is ready for the job, let me know.
• I did a NMU for xjig to fix Debian bug. (#932742)

Debian LTS This was my 55. month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 31,75 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Rapha l Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

• Investigated and fixed a regression in squid3 when using the icap server. (#965012)
• DLA-2394-1. Issued a security update for squid3 fixing 4 CVE.
• DLA-2400-1. Issued a security update for activemq fixing 1 CVE.
• DLA-2403-1. Issued a security update for rails fixing 1 CVE.
• DLA-2404-1. Issued a security update for eclipse-wtp fixing 1 CVE.
• DLA-2405-1. Issued a security update for httpcomponents-client fixing 1 CVE.
• Triaged open CVE for guacamole-server and guacamole-client and prepared patches for CVE-2020-9498 and CVE-2020-9497.
• Prepared patches for 7 CVE in libonig.

ELTS Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 8 Jessie . This was my 28. month and I have been paid to work 15 hours on ELTS.

• ELA-291-1. Issued a security update for libproxy fixing 1 CVE.
• ELA-294-1. Issued a security update for squid3 fixing 4 CVE.
• ELA-295-1. Issued a security update for rails fixing 2 CVE.
• ELA-296-1. Issued a security update for httpcomponents-client fixing 1 CVE.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.

Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS. Individual reports In August, 237.25 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 10.0h (out of 10h assigned).
• Adrian Bunk did 31h (out of 21.75h assigned and 9.25h from July).
• Ben Hutchings did 6.25h (out of 16h assigned), thus carrying over 9.75h to September.
• Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 21.75h (out of 21.75h assigned).
• Holger Levsen did 7h coordinating/managing the LTS team.
• Markus Koschany did 20h (out of 21.75h assigned and 10.25h from July), thus carrying over 12h to September.
• Mike Gabriel did 16.0h (out of 8h assigned and 8h from July).
• Ola Lundqvist did 6.9h (out of 8h assigned and 16h from July), and gave back 5.1h, thus carrying over 12h to September.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 21.75h (out of 21.75h assigned).
• Sylvain Beucler did 21.75h (out of 21.75h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 21.75h (out of 21.75h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 32.75h (out of 21.75h assigned and anticipating 11h from September).

Evolution of the situation August was a regular LTS month once again, even though it was only our 2nd month with Stretch LTS.
At the end of August some of us participated in DebConf 20 online where we held our monthly team meeting. A video is available.
As of now this video is also the only public resource about the LTS survey we held in July, though a written summary is expected to be released soon. The security tracker currently lists 56 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 55 packages needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that recently joined are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 60 months)
• GitHub (for 50 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 27 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• Blablacar (for 75 months)
• Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 70 months)
• Linode (for 65 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 54 months)
• Plat Home (for 53 months)
• University of Oxford (for 9 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• The Positive Internet Company (for 76 months)
• Domeneshop AS (for 75 months)
• Nantes M tropole (for 69 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 61 months)
• Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 61 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 54 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 44 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 38 months)
• CINECA (for 28 months)
• Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 22 months)
• Cloudways Ltd (for 11 months)
• Dinahosting SL (for 9 months)
• Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 3 months)
• Platform.sh (for 3 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 76 months)
• Evolix (for 75 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 73 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 72 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 71 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 70 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 70 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 69 months)
• NUMLOG (for 69 months)
• WinGo AG (for 68 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 64 months)
• Entr ouvert (for 59 months)
• Adfinis AG (for 57 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 51 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 51 months)
• Tesorion (for 51 months)
• Bearstech (for 43 months)
• LiHAS (for 43 months)
• People Doc (for 39 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 37 months)
• Supagro (for 33 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 31 months)
• Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 17 months)
• TouchWeb SAS (for 9 months)
• SPiN AG (for 6 months)
• CoreFiling

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Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report (+ the first week in September) that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you re interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you. Debian Games

• I packaged a new upstream release of teeworlds, the well-known 2D multiplayer shooter with cute characters called tees to resolve a Python 2 bug (although teeworlds is actually a C++ game). The update also fixed a severe remote denial-of-service security vulnerability, CVE-2020-12066. I prepared a patch for Buster and will send it to the security team later today.
• I sponsored updates of mgba, a Game Boy Advance emulator, for Ryan Tandy, and osmose-emulator for Carlos Donizete Froes.
• I worked around a RC GCC 10 bug in megaglest by compiling with -fcommon.
• Thanks to Gerardo Ballabio who packaged a new upstream version of galois which I uploaded for him.
• Also thanks to Reiner Herrmann and Judit Foglszinger who fixed a regression (crash) in monsterz due to the earlier port to Python 3. Reiner also made fans of supertuxkart happy by packaging the latest upstream release version 1.2.

Debian Java

• I packaged new upstream versions of jboss-modules, libpdfbox2-java and intellij-annotations.

Misc

• I was contacted by the upstream maintainer of privacybadger, a privacy addon for Firefox and Chromium, who dislikes the idea of having a stable and unchanging version in Debian stable releases. Obviously I can t really do much about it although I believe the release team would be open-minded for regular point updates of browser addons though. However I don t intend to do regular updates for all of my packages in stable unless there is a really good reason to do so. At the moment I m willing to make an exception for ublock-origin and https-everywhere because I feel these addons should be core browser functionality anyway. I talked about this on our Debian Mozilla Extension Maintainers mailinglist and it seems someone is interested to take over privacybadger and prepare regular stable point updates. Let s see how it turns out.
• Finally this month saw the release of ublock-origin 1.29.0 and the creation of two different browser-specific binary packages for Firefox and Chromium. I have talked about it before and I believe two separate packages for ublock-origin are more aligned to upstream development and make the whole addon easier to maintain which benefits users, upstream and maintainers.
• imlib2, an image library, and binaryen also got updated this month.

Debian LTS This was my 54. month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 20 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Rapha l Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

• DLA-2303-1. Issued a security update for libssh fixing 1 CVE.
• DLA-2327-1. Issued a security update for lucene-solr fixing 1 CVE.
• DLA-2369-1. Issued a security update for libxml2 fixing 8 CVE.
• Triaged CVE-2020-14340, jboss-xnio as not-affected for Stretch.
• Triaged CVE-2020-13941, lucene-solr as no-dsa because the security impact was minor.
• Triaged CVE-2019-17638, jetty9 as not-affected for Stretch and Buster.
• squid3: I backported the patches for CVE-2020-15049, CVE-2020-15810, CVE-2020-15811 and CVE-2020-24606 from squid 4 to squid 3.

ELTS Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 8 Jessie . This was my 27. month and I have been paid to work 14,25 hours on ELTS.

• ELA-271-1. Issued a security update for squid3 fixing 19 CVE. Most of the work was already done before ELTS started, only the patch for CVE-2019-12529 had to be adjusted for the nettle version in Jessie.
• ELA-273-1. Issued a security update for nss fixing 1 CVE.
• ELA-276-1. Issued a security update for libjpeg-turbo fixing 2 CVE.
• ELA-277-1. Issued a security update for graphicsmagick fixing 1 CVE.
• ELA-279-1. Issued a security update for imagemagick fixing 3 CVE.
• ELA-280-1. Issued a security update for libxml2 fixing 4 CVE.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.

Like each month, albeit a bit later due to vacation, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS. Individual reports In July, 249.25 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 18.0h (out of 14h assigned and 6h from June), and gave back 2h to the pool.
• Adrian Bunk did 16.0h (out of 25.25h assigned), thus carrying over 9.25h to August.
• Ben Hutchings did 5h (out of 20h assigned), and gave back the remaining 15h.
• Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 60h (out of 5.75h assigned and 54.25h from June).
• Holger Levsen spent 10h (out of 10h assigned) for managing LTS and ELTS contributors.
• Markus Koschany did 15h (out of 25.25h assigned), thus carrying over 10.25h to August.
• Mike Gabriel did nothing (out of 8h assigned), thus is carrying over 8h for August.
• Ola Lundqvist did 3h (out of 12h assigned and 7h from June), thus carrying over 16h to August.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 26.5h (out of 25.25h assigned and 1.25h from June).
• Sylvain Beucler did 25.25h (out of 25.25h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 25.25h (out of 25.25h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 25.25h (out of 25.25h assigned).

Evolution of the situation July was our first month of Stretch LTS! Given this is our fourth LTS release we anticipated a smooth transition and it seems everything indeed went very well. Many thanks to the members of the Debian ftpmaster-, security, release- and publicity- teams who helped us make this happen!
Stretch LTS begun on July 18th 2020 after the 13th and final Stretch point release. and is currently scheduled to end on June 30th 2022. Last month, we asked you to participate in a survey and we got 1764 submissions, which is pretty awesome. Thank you very much for participating!. Right now we are still busy crunching the results, but we already shared some early analysis during the Debconf LTS bof this week. The security tracker currently lists 54 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 52 packages needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 59 months)
• GitHub (for 50 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 27 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• Blablacar (for 74 months)
• Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 70 months)
• Linode (for 64 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 53 months)
• Plat Home (for 53 months)
• University of Oxford (for 9 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• The Positive Internet Company (for 75 months)
• Domeneshop AS (for 74 months)
• Nantes M tropole (for 68 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 60 months)
• Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 60 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 54 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 44 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 38 months)
• CINECA (for 27 months)
• Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 21 months)
• Cloudways Ltd (for 11 months)
• Dinahosting SL (for 9 months)
• Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 3 months)
• Platform.sh (for 3 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• Evolix (for 75 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 75 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 72 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 71 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 70 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 69 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 69 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 68 months)
• NUMLOG (for 68 months)
• WinGo AG (for 68 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 64 months)
• Entr ouvert (for 59 months)
• Adfinis AG (for 56 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 51 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 51 months)
• Tesorion (for 51 months)
• Bearstech (for 42 months)
• LiHAS (for 42 months)
• People Doc (for 39 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 37 months)
• Supagro (for 32 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 31 months)
• Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 17 months)
• TouchWeb SAS (for 9 months)
• SPiN AG (for 6 months)
• CoreFiling

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Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report (+ the first week in August) that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you re interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you. Debian Games

• Last month GCC 10 became the new default compiler for Debian 11 and compilation errors are now release critical. The change affected dozens of games in the archive but fortunately most of them are rather easy to fix and a quick workaround is available. I uploaded several packages with patches from Reiner Herrmann including blastem, freegish, gngb, phlipple, xaos, xboard, gamazons and freesweep. I could add to this list atomix, teg, neverball and biniax2. I am quite confident we can fix the rest of those FTBFS bugs before the freeze.
• Finally freeorion 0.4.10 was released last month. Among new gameplay changes and bug fixes, freeorion s Python 2 code was ported to Python 3.
• Due to the ongoing Python 2 removal pygame-sdl2 in unstable could no longer be built from source and I had to upload the new Python 3 version from experimental. This in turn breaks renpy, a framework for developing visual-novel type games. At the moment it is uncertain if there will be a Python 3 version of renpy for Debian 11 in time while this issue is still being worked on upstream.
• I uploaded a new upstream release of mgba, a Game Boy Advance emulator, for Ryan Tandy.

Debian Java

• I packaged a new upstream release of libtwelvemonkeys-java and prepared the security update of tomcat9 together with Emmanuel Bourg released as DSA-4627-1.

Misc

• I fixed the GCC 10 FTBFS in iftop and packaged a new upstream release of osmo, a lean and lightweight personal organizer.
• New versions of privacybadger, binaryen, wabt and most importantly ublock-origin are also available now. Since the new binary packages webext-ublock-origin-firefox and webext-ublock-origin-chromium were finally accepted into the archive, I am planning to package version 1.29.0 now.

Debian LTS This was my 53. month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 15 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Rapha l Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

• DLA-2278-2. Issued a regression update for squid3. It was discovered that the patch for CVE-2019-12523 interrupted the communication between squid and icap or ecap services. The setup is most commonly used with clamav or similar antivirus scanners. I debugged the problem and created a new patch to address the error. In this process I also updated the patch for CVE-2019-12529 to use more code from Debian s cryptographic nettle library. I also enabled the test suite by default now and corrected a failing test.
• I have been working on fixing CVE-2020-15049 in squid3. The upstream patch for the 4.x series appears to be simple but to completely address the underlying problem, squid3 requires a backport of the new HttpHeader parsing code which has improved a lot over the last couple of years. The patch is complete but requires more testing. A new update will follow soon.

ELTS Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 8 Jessie . This was my 26. month and I have been paid to work 13,25 hours on ELTS.

• ELA-242-1. Issued a security update for tomcat7 fixing 1 CVE.
• ELA-243-1. Issued a security update for tomcat8 fixing 1 CVE.
• ELA-253-1. Issued a security update for imagemagick fixing 18 CVE.
• ELA-254-1. Issued a security update for libssh fixing 1 CVE.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.

Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS. Individual reports In June, 202.00 work hours have been dispatched among 12 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 8h (out of 14h assigned), thus carrying over 6h to July.
• Ben Hutchings did 20h (out of 20h assigned).
• Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 4h from his backlog of 58.25h from May, thus carrying over 54.25h to July.
• Markus Koschany did 60h (out of 48.25h backlog from May and 11.75h extra hours manually assigned).
• Mike Gabriel did 8h (out of 8h assigned).
• Ola Lundqvist did 12.5h (out of 12h assigned and 7.5h from May), thus carrying over 7h to July.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 28.75h (out of 30h assigned), thus carrying over 1.25h to July.
• Sylvain Beucler did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 30h (out of 30h assigned).

Evolution of the situation June was the last month of Jessie LTS which ended on 2020-06-20. If you still need to run Jessie somewhere, please read the post about keeping Debian 8 Jessie alive for longer than 5 years.
So, as (Jessie) LTS is dead, long live the new LTS, Stretch LTS! Stretch has received its last point release, so regular LTS operations can now continue.
Accompanying this, for the first time, we have prepared a small survey about our users and contributors, who they are and why they are using LTS. Filling out the survey should take less than 10 minutes. We would really appreciate if you could participate in the survey online! On July 27th 2020 we will close the survey, so please don t hesitate and participate now! After that, there will be a followup with the results. The security tracker for Stretch LTS currently lists 29 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 44 packages needing an update in Stretch LTS. Thanks to our sponsors New sponsors are in bold. We welcome CoreFiling this month!

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 58 months)
• GitHub (for 48 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 26 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• Blablacar (for 73 months)
• Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 69 months)
• Linode (for 63 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 52 months)
• Plat Home (for 51 months)
• University of Oxford (for 8 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• The Positive Internet Company (for 74 months)
• Domeneshop AS (for 73 months)
• Nantes M tropole (for 67 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 59 months)
• Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 59 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 53 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 42 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 36 months)
• CINECA (for 26 months)
• Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 20 months)
• Cloudways Ltd (for 9 months)
• Dinahosting SL (for 7 months)
• Platform.sh
• Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG
• Bronze sponsors:
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 74 months)
• Evolix (for 73 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 71 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 70 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 69 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 68 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 68 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 67 months)
• NUMLOG (for 67 months)
• WinGo AG (for 66 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 63 months)
• Entr ouvert (for 58 months)
• Adfinis AG (for 55 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 50 months)
• Tesorion (for 50 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 49 months)
• Bearstech (for 41 months)
• LiHAS (for 41 months)
• People Doc (for 37 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 36 months)
• Supagro (for 31 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 29 months)
• Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 16 months)
• TouchWeb SAS (for 8 months)
• SPiN AG (for 4 months)
• CoreFiling

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Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report (+ the first week in July) that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you re interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you. Debian Games Short news

• The last month saw a new upstream release of Minetest (version 5.3.), a multi-player sandbox game similar to Minecraft. A backport to buster-backports will follow shortly.
• Asher Gordon helped release a new version of Berusky 2, a sokoban like logic game but in 3D. The game received several improvements including bug fixes, code polishing and a new way to access the data files. Previously those files were all packed in a special container format but now they can be accessed directly without someone having to rely on some sort of unarchiver. I have uploaded this version as 0.12-1 to Debian unstable.
• I tested an upstream patch for empire to address the build failure with GCC 10. This one is a better solution than the currently implemented workaround and I expect it to be included in the next upstream release.
• I fixed two FTBFS in simutrans-pak64 and simutrans-pak128.britain, two addon packages for the simulation game simutrans.

Debian Java

• New upstream versions this month: hsqldb, libpdfbox2-java, jackson-jr, jackson-dataformat-xml and jackson-databind. The latter upload addressed several security vulnerabilites which have become rather minor because upstream has enabled safe default typing by default now. Nevertheless I have prepared a buster-security update as well which is already available in buster-proposed-updates.

Misc

• I packaged new versions of wabt, privacybadger and binaryen and applied another upstream patch for xarchiver to address the incomplete fix for Debian bug #959914, to better handle encrypted multi-volume 7zip archives.
• By popular request I uploaded imlib2 version 1.6 to buster-backports because the image library supports the webp format now.

Debian LTS This was my 52. month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 60 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Rapha l Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

• DLA-2278-1. Issued a security update for squid3 fixing 19 CVE.
• DLA-2279-1. Issued a security update for tomcat8 fixing 2 CVE.
• Prepared and uploaded a stretch-pu update for jackson-databind fixing 20 CVE. (#964727)
• Synced the proftpd-dfsg version from Jessie with Stretch to address a memory leak which leads to a denial-of-service and correct the version number to make seemless updates work.
• Prepared the security update for imagemagick triaging and/or fixing 76 CVE.
• Worked on updating the database about embedded code copies to determine how packages are affected by security vulnerabilities in embedded code copies. This included a) compiling a list of important packages which are regular affected by CVE, b) investigating if embedded code copies are present, c) determining the possible impact of a security vulnerability in those embedded code copies, d) writing a script that automates printing those findings on demand.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.

Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS. Individual reports In May, 198 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 18.0h (out of 14h assigned and 4h from April).
• Anton Gladky gave back the assigned 10h and declared himself inactive.
• Ben Hutchings did 19.75h (out of 17.25h assigned and 2.5h from April).
• Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
• Chris Lamb did 17.25h (out of 17.25h assigned).
• Dylan A ssi gave back the assigned 6h and declared himself inactive.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did not manage to work LTS in May and now reported 5h work in April (out of 17.25h assigned plus 46h from April), thus is carrying over 58.25h for June.
• Markus Koschany did 25.0h (out of 17.25h assigned and 56h from April), thus carrying over 48.25h to June.
• Mike Gabriel did 14.50h (out of 8h assigned and 6.5h from April).
• Ola Lundqvist did 11.5h (out of 12h assigned and 7h from April), thus carrying over 7.5h to June.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 17.25h (out of 17.25h assigned).
• Sylvain Beucler did 17.25h (out of 17.25h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 17.25h (out of 17.25h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 17.25h (out of 17.25h assigned).

Evolution of the situation In May 2020 we had our second (virtual) contributors meeting on IRC, Logs and minutes are available online. Then we also moved our ToDo from the Debian wiki to the issue tracker on salsa.debian.org.
Sadly three contributors went inactive in May: Adrian Bunk, Anton Gladky and Dylan A ssi. And while there are currently still enough active contributors to shoulder the existing work, we like to use this opportunity that we are always looking for new contributors. Please mail Holger if you are interested.
Finally, we like to remind you for a last time, that the end of Jessie LTS is coming in less than a month!
In case you missed it (or missed to act), please read this post about keeping Debian 8 Jessie alive for longer than 5 years. If you expect to have Debian 8 servers/devices running after June 30th 2020, and would like to have security updates for them, please get in touch with Freexian. The security tracker currently lists 6 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 30 packages needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors New sponsors are in bold. With the upcoming start of Jessie ELTS, we are welcoming a few new sponsors and others should join soon.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 57 months)
• GitHub (for 47 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 25 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• Blablacar (for 72 months)
• Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 68 months)
• Linode (for 62 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 51 months)
• Plat Home (for 50 months)
• University of Oxford (for 7 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• The Positive Internet Company (for 73 months)
• Domeneshop AS (for 72 months)
• Nantes M tropole (for 66 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 58 months)
• Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 58 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 52 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 41 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 36 months)
• CINECA (for 25 months)
• Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 19 months)
• Cloudways Ltd (for 8 months)
• Dinahosting SL (for 6 months)
• Platform.sh
• Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG
• Bronze sponsors:
• Evolix (for 73 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 73 months)
• MyTux (for 72 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 70 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 69 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 68 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 67 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 67 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 66 months)
• NUMLOG (for 66 months)
• WinGo AG (for 65 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 62 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 59 months)
• Entr ouvert (for 57 months)
• Adfinis AG (for 54 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 49 months)
• Tesorion (for 49 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 48 months)
• Bearstech (for 40 months)
• LiHAS (for 40 months)
• People Doc (for 36 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 35 months)
• Supagro (for 30 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 29 months)
• Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 15 months)
• TouchWeb SAS (for 7 months)
• SPiN AG (for 3 months)

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Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report (+ the first week in June) that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you re interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you. Debian Games

• I decided to upgrade Nethack to version 3.6.6 that fixed several security vulnerabilities and a GCC 10 FTBFS bug. Unfortunately the Debian specific lisp fork of Nethack is no longer compatible with the most recent changes. I could fix some errors but really didn t want to maintain something that should better be upstreamed. I filed Debian bug #961932 because nethack-lisp is unusable now. In my opinion the lisp fork prevents more regular updates and it really needs a maintainer who likes to care for the code. But the best solution would be to merge the code upstream. Anyone interested in a challenge?
• This month I could update a couple of games that haven t seen much love in the past years, but to be fair, all of them still just worked fine. They just needed some modifications due to the switch to debhelper-compat = 13, or they could not be reproducibly build or cross-build from source. And then there were also some GCC 10 bugs, that are currently severity normal but will become release-critical soon. So there was briquolo (#960386, reproducible-build patch by Chris Lamb), a 3D breakout game, empire (#957172, GCC-10), asc (#957013, GCC-10), asc-music, ace-of-penguins (#956976, GCC-10), foobillardplus (#914622, cross-build, patch by Helmut Grohne), vodovod (cross-build, patch by Helmut Grohne), holotz-castle (cross-build, patch by Helmut Grohne), kball (cross-build, patch by Helmut Grohne), zaz, an action puzzle game, xgalaga (cross-build, patch by Helmut Grohne), xmahjongg and plee-the-bear (Boost FTBFS, patch by Giovanni Mascellani and a cross-build issue, patch by Helmut Grohne).

• I was contacted by Martin Gerhardy, upstream maintainer of caveexpress and former lead-developer of ufoai. He is currently working on a new free software voxel game engine and its tools. He asked me to take a look at the Debian packaging but I couldn t promise to package it yet, although this is certainly something that interests me. I will provide some feedback for the prelimary Debian packaging though, which he has prepared already. In the meantime he released a new version of caveexpress and I hope that we can find a solution for an ufoai RC-bug quite soon, but at least before Debian freezes.
• I sponsored bzflag and supertux for Reiner Herrman. Greatly appreciated!
• Ryan Tandy contributed an overhauled mgba package, a Game Boy Advance emulator. Thanks a lot!
• I also packaged new versions of hexalate, hitori and peg-e.

Debian Java

• New upstream versions this month: undertow, jboss-xnio and libapache-mod-jk. The latter package contained a wrongly named file that prevented the apache tools a2enmod and a2dismod from symlinking that file. I corrected the error by preparing a stable point-update as well.

Misc

• I packaged new versions of wabt, privacybadger and https-everywhere. I would like to update ublock-origin as well but the package is still stuck in the NEW queue. I don t know why.
• I packaged a new upstream version of xarchiver and applied a patch to address Debian bug #959914. There is still a problem with multi-part encrypted 7zip files but since it is already known upstream, I am confident there will be a fix eventually.

Debian LTS This was my 51. month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 25 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Rapha l Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

• DLA-2209-1. Issued a security update for tomcat8 fixing 4 CVE. The update was delayed due to an error, which was not discovered by the test suite and a new CVE, CVE-2020-9484.
• squid3: I have almost completed the update and prepared patches for 16 different security vulnerabilities in Stretch and Jessie. Due to the in part invasive changes I will publish a request for testing on the debian-lts mailing list first. If there are no negative reports, the update should happen next week now.
• imagemagick: I am currently working on a complete update of the popular image manipulation program. I have already completed 10 patches but I intend to release a full update until the end of the month.

ELTS Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 7 Wheezy . This was my 24. month and I have been paid to work 9,25 hours on ELTS.

• ELA-232-1. Issued a security update for nss fixing 1 CVE.
• ELA-233-1. Issued a security update for openjdk-7 fixing 1 CVE.
• Prepared the last security update of linux for Wheezy. The new kernel will be available on Saturday, 13.06.2020, after it passes the usual tests.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.

Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS. Individual reports In April, 284.5 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 10.0h (out of 14h assigned), thus carrying over 4h to May.
• Adrian Bunk did nothing (out of 28.75h assigned), thus is carrying over 28.75h for May.
• Ben Hutchings did 26h (out of 20h assigned and 8.5h from March), thus carrying over 2.5h to May.
• Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Dylan A ssi did 6h (out of 6h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did not report back about their work so we assume they did nothing (out of 28.75h assigned plus 17.25h from March), thus is carrying over 46h for May.
• Markus Koschany did 11.5h (out of 28.75h assigned and 38.75h from March), thus carrying over 56h to May.
• Mike Gabriel did 1.5h (out of 8h assigned), thus carrying over 6.5h to May.
• Ola Lundqvist did 13.5h (out of 12h assigned and 8.5h from March), thus carrying over 7h to May.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 28.75h (out of 28.75h assigned).
• Sylvain Beucler did 28.75h (out of 28.75h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 28.75h (out of 28.75h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 24h (out of 24h assigned).

Evolution of the situation In April we dispatched more hours than ever and another was new too, we had our first (virtual) contributors meeting on IRC! Logs and minutes are available and we plan to continue doing IRC meetings every other month.
Sadly one contributor decided to go inactive in April, Hugo Lefeuvre.
Finally, we like to remind you, that the end of Jessie LTS is coming in less than two months!
In case you missed it (or missed to act), please read this post about keeping Debian 8 Jessie alive for longer than 5 years. If you expect to have Debian 8 servers/devices running after June 30th 2020, and would like to have security updates for them, please get in touch with Freexian. The security tracker currently lists 4 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 25 packages needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 56 months)
• GitHub (for 46 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 24 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• Blablacar (for 71 months)
• Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 67 months)
• Linode (for 61 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 50 months)
• Plat Home (for 49 months)
• University of Oxford (for 6 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• The Positive Internet Company (for 72 months)
• Domeneshop AS (for 71 months)
• Nantes M tropole (for 65 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 57 months)
• Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 57 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 51 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 40 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 34 months)
• CINECA (for 24 months)
• Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 18 months)
• Cloudways Ltd (for 7 months)
• Dinahosting SL (for 5 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 72 months)
• Evolix (for 71 months)
• MyTux (for 71 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 69 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 68 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 67 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 66 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 66 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 65 months)
• NUMLOG (for 65 months)
• WinGo AG (for 64 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 61 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 58 months)
• Entr ouvert (for 56 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 53 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 48 months)
• Tesorion (for 48 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 47 months)
• Bearstech (for 39 months)
• LiHAS (for 39 months)
• People Doc (for 35 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 33 months)
• Supagro (for 29 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 27 months)
• Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 14 months)
• TouchWeb SAS (for 6 months)
• SPiN AG

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Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report (+ the first week in May) that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you re interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you. Debian Games

• Scott Talbert did a fantastic job by porting playonlinux, a user-friendly frontend for Wine, to Python 3 (#937302). I tested his patch and uploaded the package today. More testing and feedback is welcome. Scott s work basically prevented the removal of one of the most popular packages in the games section. I believe this will also give interested people more time to package the Java successor of playonlinux called Phoenicis.
• Reiner Herrmann ported ardentryst, an action role playing game, to Python 3 to fix a release critical Py2 removal bug (#936148). He also packaged the latest release of xaos, a real-time interactive fractal zoomer, and improved various packaging details. I reviewed both of them and sponsored the upload for him.
• I packaged new upstream releases of minetest, lordsawar, gtkatlantic and cutemaze.
• I also sponsored a new simutrans update for J rg Frings-F rst.

Debian Java

• New upstream versions this month: jboss-modules, robocode, sweethome3d, sweethome3d-furniture-editor, jboss-logmanager, jboss-threads and undertow.
• I prepared the security updates for tomcat9 (DSA-4680-1) and apache-log4j1.2.

Misc

• I packaged new versions of wabt and binaryen, required to build Webassembly code from source.

Debian LTS This was my 50. month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 11,5 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Rapha l Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

• I completed the security update of Tomcat 8 in Stretch released as DSA-4673-1 and Tomcat 8 in Jessie soon to be released as DLA-2209-1.
• I am currently assigned more hours and my plan is to invest the time in a project to improve our knowledge about embedded code copies and their current security impact which I want to discuss with the security team. The rest will be spent on Stretch security updates which will become the new LTS release soon.

ELTS Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 7 Wheezy . This was my 23. month and I have been paid to work 2 hours on ELTS.

• I prepared the fix for CVE-2019-18218 in php5 released as ELA-227-1.
• I checked jetty for unfixed vulnerabilities and discovered that the version in Wheezy was not affected by CVE-2019-17632. No further action was required.
• It turned out that the apache2 package in Wheezy was not affected by vulnerable embedded expat code because it depends on already fixed system packages.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.

Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS. Individual reports In March, 252 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA did 16.0h (out of 14h assigned and 2h from February).
• Ben Hutchings did 12.25h (out of 20h assigned and 0.75h from February), thus carrying over 8.5h to April.
• Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Dylan A ssi did 6h (out of 6h assigned).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 19.5h (out of 30h assigned and 6.75h from February), thus carrying over 17.25h to April.
• Hugo Lefeuvre gave back the 12h he got assigned.
• Markus Koschany did 10h (out of 30h assigned and 18.75h from February), thus carrying over 38.75h to April.
• Mike Gabriel did 10.25h (out of 8h assigned and 2.25h from February).
• Ola Lundqvist did 6h (out of 12h assigned and 2.5h from February), thus carrying over 8.5h to April.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 6.25h (out of 8h assigned), and gave back the remaining 1.75h.
• Sylvain Beucler did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 30h (out of 30h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 24h (out of 24h assigned).

Evolution of the situation March was a strange month for many people all over the globe. Here we ll just express our hopes that you are and will be well! LTS gained a new contributor in March, Anton Gladky, however he then decided to become active later this year. Similarly Hugo Lefeuvre notified us that he ll be inactive in April. In case you missed it (or missed to act), please read this post about keeping Debian 8 Jessie alive for longer than 5 years. If you expect to have Debian 8 servers/devices running after June 30th 2020, and would like to have security updates for them, please get in touch with Freexian. Hurry up: the end of Jessie LTS is coming in less than three months! The security tracker currently lists 25 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 23 packages needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 55 months)
• GitHub (for 45 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 22 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• Blablacar (for 70 months)
• Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 65 months)
• Linode (for 59 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 49 months)
• Plat Home (for 48 months)
• University of Oxford (for 4 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• The Positive Internet Company (for 71 months)
• Domeneshop AS (for 70 months)
• Nantes M tropole (for 64 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 56 months)
• Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 56 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 49 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 39 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 33 months)
• CINECA (for 23 months)
• Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 17 months)
• Cloudways Ltd (for 6 months)
• Dinahosting SL (for 4 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 71 months)
• Evolix (for 70 months)
• MyTux (for 70 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 67 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 67 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 66 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 65 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 65 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 64 months)
• NUMLOG (for 64 months)
• WinGo AG (for 63 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 59 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 57 months)
• Entr ouvert (for 54 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 52 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 46 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 46 months)
• Tesorion (for 46 months)
• Bearstech (for 38 months)
• LiHAS (for 38 months)
• People Doc (for 34 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 32 months)
• Supagro (for 28 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 26 months)
• TrapX Security (for 23 months)
• Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 12 months)
• TouchWeb SAS (for 4 months)
• SPiN AG

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Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report (+ the first week in April) that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you re interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you. I am sure I am not the only one who will remember March 2020 in the future as a month nobody was really fond of. I was mostly occupied with non-Debian work and managed to get ill in the same week I wanted to celebrate my birthday but it didn t matter anyway because of ehm quarantine and social distancing. Maybe next year March will be great again.
Debian Games

• I was notified by Minetest upstream that Debian did not build the game with CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release or that we simply missed the -DNDEBUG compiler flag which in turn could cause some unexepected runtime errors. I quickly fixed the problem and backported the change to buster-backports. There is another pending merge request about build-depending on libspatialindex-dev. I was told it will speed up some processes on the server side, so I wanted to give it a try.
• I fixed RC bug #954722 in spring, the RTS game engine. A change in GCC caused yet another FTBFS but was rather easy to fix.
• I sponsored jag and runescape for Carlos Donizete Froes. Despite being such a trivial helper script for downloading the runescape launcher, the latter caused some controversy. Now it looks like all problems can be resolved and I expect another upload with bug fixes in April.
• Last but not least I packaged a new upstream release of extremetuxracer, the racing game with Tux for all the family.

Debian Java

• I worked on new releases of wildfly-common, undertow, jboss-threads, jboss-xnio, libsmali-java and apktool.
• I uploaded a security update of checkstyle to Stretch and Buster and prepared another point update for Buster to fix a bug in el-api, websocket-api and jsp-api when libservlet3.1-java was upgraded from Stretch to Buster.
• A missing jar file on the CLASSPATH in commons-configuration2 made mediathekview and other packages FTBFS (#955755) but it also motivated me to remove the unnecessary update check in MediathekView on every startup because it may take a while until I can upgrade this program again.
• I also applied a patch by Bas Couwenberg for OpenJFX to fix a FTBFS bug due to the -Werror=deprecated-declarations flag.

Misc

• While I am still waiting for ublock-origin being processed in the NEW queue, I packaged the latest version of another browser addon, https-everywhere.

Debian LTS This was my 49. month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 10 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Rapha l Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

• I worked on Tomcat 8 in Jessie and prepared patches for CVE-2020-1938, CVE-2020-1935 and CVE-2019-17563. I am working together with Abhihith PA who is currently reviewing them. Especially CVE-2020-1938 requires careful attention because of new options to secure the AJP port and protocol. In contrast to Wheezy, Tomcat in Jessie will be supported at least for another year, so it makes sense to apply the upstream changes for hardening the setup.
• I prepared another Tomcat 8 update for Stretch which will be released this month.

ELTS Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 7 Wheezy . This was my 22. month and I have been paid to work 9 hours on ELTS.

• I investigated all identified source packages from last month. They are supported but embed external software, sometimes affected by unfixed security vulnerabilities. After a closer inspection I discovered that most packages were either affected only by minor issues, which did not warrant an extra update, or they were not even affected at all because they linked against system libraries. However zlib, apache2 and php5 contained embedded and unfixed code copies of expat and file and zlib s miniunzip program was still prone to a directory traversal attack. I fixed the latter in ELA-222-1. The apache2 update will follow shortly and there is ongoing work for PHP5 anyway which allows us to fix the latest reported vulnerabilites and address the embedded code copy issues together in one update.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.

Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS. Individual reports In February, 226 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Abhijith PA gave back 12 out of his assigned 14h, thus he is carrying over 2h for March.
• Ben Hutchings did 19.25h (out of 20h assigned), thus carrying over 0.75h to March.
• Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
• Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
• Dylan A ssi did 5.5h (out of 4h assigned and 1.5h from January).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 29h (out of 20h assigned and 15.75h from January), thus carrying over 6.75h to March.
• Hugo Lefeuvre gave back the 12h he got assigned.
• Markus Koschany did 10h (out of 20h assigned and 8.75h from January), thus carrying over 18.75h to March.
• Mike Gabriel did 5.75h (out of 20h assigned) and gave 12h back to the pool, thus he is carrying over 2.25h to March.
• Ola Lundqvist did 10h (out of 8h assigned and 4.5h from January), thus carrying over 2.5h to March.
• Roberto C. S nchez did 20.25h (out of 20h assigned and 13h from January) and gave back 12.75h to the pool.
• Sylvain Beucler did 20h (out of 20h assigned).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 20h (out of 20h assigned).
• Utkarsh Gupta did 20h (out of 20h assigned).

Evolution of the situation February began as rather calm month and the fact that more contributors have given back unused hours is an indicator of this calmness and also an indicator that contributing to LTS has become more of a routine now, which is good. In the second half of February Holger Levsen (from LTS) and Salvatore Bonaccorso (from the Debian Security Team) met at SnowCamp in Italy and discussed tensions and possible improvements from and for Debian LTS. The security tracker currently lists 25 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 21 packages needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 54 months)
• GitHub (for 44 months)
• Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 22 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• Blablacar (for 69 months)
• Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 65 months)
• Linode (for 59 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 48 months)
• Plat Home (for 47 months)
• University of Oxford (for 4 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• The Positive Internet Company (for 70 months)
• Domeneshop AS (for 69 months)
• Nantes M tropole (for 63 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 55 months)
• Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 55 months)
• Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 49 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 38 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 32 months)
• CINECA (for 22 months)
• Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 16 months)
• Cloudways Ltd (for 5 months)
• Dinahosting SL (for 3 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 70 months)
• Evolix (for 69 months)
• MyTux (for 69 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 67 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 66 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 65 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 64 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 64 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 63 months)
• NUMLOG (for 63 months)
• WinGo AG (for 62 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 59 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 56 months)
• Entr ouvert (for 54 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 51 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 46 months)
• Tesorion (for 46 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 45 months)
• Bearstech (for 37 months)
• LiHAS (for 37 months)
• People Doc (for 33 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 32 months)
• Supagro (for 27 months)
• Demarcq SAS (for 25 months)
• TrapX Security (for 22 months)
• Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 12 months)
• TouchWeb SAS (for 4 months)
• SPiN AG

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Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report (+ the first week in March) that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you re interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you. Debian Games

• The games team received a lot of FTBFS bug reports due to a recent change in SDL2. (#951087) Many games that relied on the FindSDL2.cmake macro suddenly stopped building from source. Simon McVittie, who analyzed the situation, provided some helpful fixes for the problem. Ideally all affected packages and SDL2 should be fixed. I applied his patch for blockattack (#951943) and came up with similar patches for megaglest (#951959) and spring (#951974), pekka-kana-2 (#952049) was fixed by Simon and Carlos again.
• I updated clanlib, an older SDK for game development, fixed a Perl build failure and applied patches to make cross-builds and reproducible builds possible.
• I backported the latest version of Minetest, 5.1.1, to buster-backports.
• Morris was ported to GSetting by Yavor Doganov and Reiner Herrmann ported it to the signals2 boost library (well done folks!) while I was tying all things together.
• Freecol, a remake of the old Colonization received some love too. I could fix a build failure, create a valid appdata file and apply upstream s patch to address CVE-2018-1000825.
• I packaged new upstream releases of freeciv, freeorion and armagetronad.
• ufoai: I fixed a build failure caused by an upgrade to the mxml 3.x library. There is another issue with the old and soon to be removed gtksourceview2 library which the map editor relies on for some specific functions. I suppose the only way is to disable the functionality or to disable the editor alltogether. The game itself is not affected.
• I sponsored an improved version of mupen64plus-qt for Dan Hastings, an RC fix for widelands by Juhani Numminen and
• reviewed opensurge and surgescript for Carlos Donizete Froes. The former retro platformer opensurge is still missing from Debian and would be a nice addition to the games section. There is still some kind of runtime problem / shared library error and more work is required to make progress here.

Debian Java

• This month I packaged new releases of jboss-threads, jackson-databind, jackson-dataformat-xml, jackson-jr, intellij-annotations, jboss-modules and libpdfbox2-java.

Misc

• After we received new bug reports for ublock-origin, this time because of sandboxing limitations in Chromium, I decided to revert back to two different binary packages, one for Firefox and one for Chromium. This will avoid any sandboxing problems due to the previous use of symlinks. The new version 1.25.0 is currently waiting in NEW.
• Instead the update of privacybadger to version 2020.2.19 and binaryen was much more straightforward.

Debian LTS This was my 48. month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 10 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Rapha l Hertzog. In that time I did the following:

• DLA-2133-1. Issued a security update for tomcat7 fixing 3 CVE.
• DLA-2138-1. Issued a security update for wpa fixing 1 CVE.
• Worked on a security update for squid3 that is not finished yet.

ELTS Extended Long Term Support (ELTS) is a project led by Freexian to further extend the lifetime of Debian releases. It is not an official Debian project but all Debian users benefit from it without cost. The current ELTS release is Debian 7 Wheezy . This was my 21. month and I have been paid to work 8 hours on ELTS.

• ELA-217-1. Issued a security update for tomcat7 fixing 1 CVE. I investigated CVE-2019-17569 and found that it did not affect the version in Wheezy because the refactoring and thus the regression happened in a later version. I worked on CVE-2020-1938, a possible remote code execution vulnerability regarding the AJP protocol. After I had backported the initial upstream patch, I discovered that more and more changes to the code were required which I found to be too intrusive eventually. Since the AJP port is disabled by default in Debian and the scenario of an untrusted user/service like mod_jk and Apache 2 seems unlikely, I opted for not making those changes.
• Created a script to display which supported source packages are embedded into other supported packages and to show the embedded code copies in supported packages. There will be another script for LTS that behaves slightly different but it will also help to highlight CVE in embedded-code-copies in LTS and Debian packages in general.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.

Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS. Individual reports In October, about 197 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Antoine Beaupr did 21h (out of 16h allocated + 8.75h remaining, thus keeping 3.75h for November).
• Ben Hutchings did 20 hours (out of 15h allocated + 9 extra hours, thus keeping 4 extra hours for November).
• Brian May did 10 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 18 hours.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 7 hours (out of 20.75 hours allocated + 1.5 hours remaining, thus keeping 15.25 hours for November).
• Guido G nther did 6.5 hours (out of 11h allocated + 1 extra hour, thus keeping 5.5h for November).
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 20h.
• Lucas Kanashiro did 2 hours (out of 5h allocated, thus keeping 3 hours for November).
• Markus Koschany did 19 hours (out of 20.75h allocated, thus keeping 1.75 extra hours for November).
• Ola Lundqvist did 7.5h (out of 7h allocated + 0.5 extra hours).
• Rapha l Hertzog did 13.5 hours (out of 12h allocated + 1.5 extra hours).
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 11 hours (out of 20.75 hours allocated + 14.75 hours remaining, thus keeping 24.50 extra hours for November, he will give back remaining hours at the end of the month).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 20.75 hours.

Evolution of the situation The number of sponsored hours increased slightly to 183 hours per month. With the increasing number of security issues to deal with, and with the number of open issues not really going down, I decided to bump the funding target to what amounts to 1.5 full-time position. The security tracker currently lists 50 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file 36 (we re a bit behind in CVE triaging apparently). Thanks to our sponsors New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 25 months)
• GitHub (for 16 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 41 months)
• Blablacar (for 40 months)
• Linode (for 30 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 19 months)
• Plat Home (for 19 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 40 months)
• Universit Lille 3 (for 40 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 38 months)
• Nantes M tropole (for 35 months)
• Dalenys (for 31 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 26 months)
• Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 26 months)
• Sonus Networks (for 20 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 14 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 10 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 4 months)
• Vente-privee.com
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers IntarS Austria (for 41 months)
• Evolix (for 41 months)
• Offensive Security (for 41 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 41 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 40 months)
• MyTux (for 40 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 38 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 38 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 36 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 35 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 35 months)
• NUMLOG (for 35 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 34 months)
• WinGo AG (for 34 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 30 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 28 months)
• Entr ouvert (for 25 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 23 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 17 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 17 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 17 months)
• RHX Srl (for 14 months)
• Bearstech (for 8 months)
• LiHAS (for 8 months)
• People Doc (for 5 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd (for 3 months)

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Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you re interested in Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you. Debian Games

• I packaged a new upstream version of springlobby. There is even a more recent one now but I discovered that it would fail to build from source. I reported the issue and now I am waiting for another release.
• These packages were also updated: bullet, tuxfootball (#876481), berusky (#877979), spring, hitori and trackballs.
• I released a new version of cube2-data, a DFSG-free version of the Sauerbraten game. This release was largely made possible thanks to the work of Nyav.
• I prepared two stable point releases of berusky and simutrans to fix #877979 and # 869029 for users of Debian s stable distributions too. The bug in Berusky is already resolved but I m still waiting for the confirmation to upload simutrans (#878668).
• I updated wing and biniax2. Here I discovered that biniax2 would segfault immediately at startup after recompilation. I tracked down the issue to some C code that caused undefined behavior, prepared a patch and released a fixed revision.
• I sponsored a new upstream version of mupen64plus-qt.

Debian Java

• This month I started to work on fixing Java9 bugs since Java 9 shall become the new default JDK/JRE for Buster. The bug reports were filed by Chris West who did the important work of identifying build failures and broken packages. I started with some low hanging fruits first and the following packages are now Java 9 ready: libgetopt-java, libjide-oss-java, activemq-protobuf, antelope, yecht, slashtime, colorpicker, f2j, libreadline-java, libjaxp1.3-java, jlapack, isorelax, libisrt-java, rxtx, uima-addons.
• New upstream releases this month: apktool, jboss-xnio, okio, pdfsam, libsejda-java, bcel, autocomplete, mediathekview, sweethome3d.
• MediathekView introduced yet another build-dependency. Let s welcome libokhttp-java in Debian.
• I upgraded jackson-databind to fix CVE-2017-7525. While I was at it, I continued this work with jackson-core, jackson-annotations, jackson-dataformat-xml, jackson-jr, jackson-datatype-joda, jackson-module-jaxb-annotations, jackson-dataformat-cbor, jackson-dataformat-smile, jackson-dataformat-yaml and jackson-jaxrs-providers. I also requested the removal of jackson-datatype-guava.
• More resolved RC issues: commons-io (#873118), tycho (#879250)
• Package updates: mockobjects (converted from CDBS to DH) and jblas (RC #877225, #873212, #698176)
• The Maven 2 to Maven 3 transition caused (and still causes) a lot of fallout: I investigated the following packages with RC bugs. In most cases the issue was in another package, so the bugs could be closed but there were also packages like conversant-disruptor (#869002) which caused build failures unrelated to the transition. In total 15 packages were triaged or fixed: jasypt (#871195), mustache-java (#869009), libslf4j-java, apache-log4j2, conversant-disruptor, powermock(#869017), jetty9(#869021), maven-site-plugin(#869001), javamail(#871102), assertj-core(#871131), java-allocation-instrumenter(#869251), json-smart(#868603), sisu-guice(#868611), maven-archiver(#871069), doxia-sitetools(#875948)
• I have started to work on a new upstream version of triplea, multiple strategy games written in Java. The update would fix a couple of bugs and make the package ready for Java 9.
• It was also requested to upgrade Gradle to version 3.4.1 at least. I have made good progress but there is more work to do.

Debian LTS This was my twentieth month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 19 hours on Debian LTS, a project started by Rapha l Hertzog. I will catch up with the remaining 1,75 hours in November. In that time I did the following:

• From 30. October to 05. November I was in charge of our LTS frontdesk. I triaged bugs in jasperreports, jbossas4, libstruts1.2-java, httpcomponents-client, vim, emacs23, trafficserver, async-http-client, liblouis, wordpress, apr, apr-utils, redis, nautilus, libpam4j and spip.
• I decided to mark jbossas4 as end-of-life because the Java application server was never fully packaged and the version in Wheezy is already nine years old. I investigated the open security issues in jasperreports and contacted upstream but they have not published any details yet.
• I pinged bug #878088. The reportbug maintainer still has to respond to the idea of informing the security teams when users report bugs in security uploads. I will discuss the possibility with the rest of the team, whether it is helpful to patch reportbug in Wheezy/Jessie/Stretch now.
• DLA-1151-1 and DLA-1160-1. Issued two security updates for WordPress addressing 10 CVE. It was later discovered that the patch for CVE-2017-14990 was incomplete and caused a regression when using WordPress multi-site feature. Single-site installations were not affected. The complete fix would either include a database upgrade or a different approach without using the new database field signup_id . I reverted the patch for now and issued a regression update in DLA-1151-2.
• DLA-1158-1. Issued a security update for bchunk fixing 3 CVE.
• DLA-1159-1. Issued a security update for graphicsmagick fixing 2 CVE.
• DLA-1164-1. Issued a security update for mupdf fixing 2 CVE.
• DLA-1165-1. Issued a security update for libpam4j fixing 1 CVE.
• DLA-1167-1. Issued a security update for ruby-yajl fixing 1 CVE.
• DLA-1157-1. I uploaded a security update for openssl. The update was prepared by Kurt Roeckx, the maintainer of openssl.

Misc

• I prepared the security updates for libpam4j (DSA-4025-1) and bchunk (DSA-4026-1) and fixed the same issues in Sid and Buster.

Thanks for reading and see you next time.

Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS. Individual reports In August, about 170 work hours have been dispatched among 13 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

• Antoine Beaupr did 7h (out of 15.75h allocated, thus keeping 8.75h for October).
• Ben Hutchings did 12 hours (out of 15h allocated + 6 extra hours, thus keeping 9 extra hours for October).
• Brian May did 10 hours.
• Chris Lamb did 15.75 hours.
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 27 hours (out of 15.75 hours allocated + 12.75 hours remaining, thus keeping 1.5 hours for October).
• Guido G nther did 10 hours (out of 11h allocated, thus keeping one hour for October).
• Hugo Lefeuvre did 15h.
• Lucas Kanashiro did 5 hours.
• Markus Koschany did 15.75 hours.
• Ola Lundqvist did 13.5h (out of 7h allocated + 7 extra hours, thus keeping 0.5 extra hours for October).
• Rapha l Hertzog did 10.5 hours (out of 12h allocated, thus keeping 1.5 hours for October).
• Roberto C. Sanchez did 10 hours (out of 15.75 hours allocated + 9 hours remaining, thus keeping 14.75 extra hours for October).
• Thorsten Alteholz did 15.75 hours.

Evolution of the situation The number of sponsored hours is the same as last month. But we have a new sponsor in the pipe. The security tracker currently lists 52 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file 49. The number of packages with open issues decreased slightly compared to last month but we re not yet back to the usual situation. Thanks to our sponsors New sponsors are in bold.

• Platinum sponsors:
• TOSHIBA (for 24 months)
• GitHub (for 15 months)
• Gold sponsors:
• The Positive Internet (for 40 months)
• Blablacar (for 39 months)
• Linode (for 29 months)
• Babiel GmbH (for 18 months)
• Plat Home (for 18 months)
• Silver sponsors:
• Domeneshop AS (for 40 months)
• Universit Lille 3 (for 39 months)
• Trollweb Solutions (for 37 months)
• Nantes M tropole (for 34 months)
• Dalenys (for 30 months)
• Univention GmbH (for 25 months)
• Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 25 months)
• Sonus Networks (for 19 months)
• maxcluster GmbH (for 13 months)
• Exonet B.V. (for 9 months)
• Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 3 months)
• Bronze sponsors:
• David Ayers IntarS Austria (for 40 months)
• Evolix (for 40 months)
• Offensive Security (for 40 months)
• Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 40 months)
• Freeside Internet Service (for 39 months)
• MyTux (for 39 months)
• Intevation GmbH (for 37 months)
• Linuxhotel GmbH (for 37 months)
• Daevel SARL (for 36 months)
• Bitfolk LTD (for 34 months)
• Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 34 months)
• NUMLOG (for 34 months)
• Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 33 months)
• WinGo AG (for 33 months)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes LHEEA (for 29 months)
• Sig-I/O (for 27 months)
• Entr ouvert (for 24 months)
• Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 22 months)
• GNI MEDIA (for 16 months)
• Laboratoire LEGI UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 16 months)
• Quarantainenet BV (for 16 months)
• RHX Srl (for 13 months)
• Bearstech (for 8 months)
• LiHAS (for 7 months)
• People Doc (for 4 months)
• Catalyst IT Ltd

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Here's what happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday October 8 and Saturday October 14 2017: Upcoming events

• On Saturday 21st October, Holger Levsen will present at All Systems Go! in Berlin, Germany on reproducible builds.
• On Tuesday 24th October, Chris Lamb will present at All Things Open 2017 in Raleigh, NC, USA on reproducible builds.
• On Wednesday 25th October, Holger Levsen will present at the Open Source Summit Europe in Prague, Czech Republic on reproducible builds.
• From October 31st - November 2nd we will be holding the 3rd Reproducible Builds summit in Berlin. If you are working in the field of reproducible builds, you should totally be there. Please contact us if you have any questions! Quoting from the public invitation mail:

  These dates are inclusive, ie. the summit will be 3 full days from "9 to 5".
  Best arrive on Monday October 30th and leave on the evening of Thursday, 3rd
  at the earliest.
  Meeting content
  ===============
  The exact content of the meeting is going to be shaped by the
  participants, but here are the main goals:
   - Update & exchange about the status of reproducible builds in various
     projects.
   - Establish spaces for more strategic and long-term thinking than is possible
     in virtual channels.
   - Improve collaboration both between and inside projects.
   - Expand the scope and reach of reproducible builds to more projects.
   - Brainstorming / Designing several things, eg:
    - designing tools enabling end-users to get the most benefits from
      reproducible builds.
    - design of back-ends needed for that.
   - Work together and hack on solutions.
  There will be a huge variety of topics to be discussed. To give a few
  examples:
  - continuing design and development work on .buildinfo infrastructure
  - build-path issues everywhere
  - future directions for diffoscope, reprotest & strip-nondeterminism
  - reproducing signed artifacts such as RPMs
  - discussing formats and tools we can share
  - sharing proposals for standards and documentation helpful to spreading the
    reproducible effort
  - and many many more.
  Please think about what you want discuss, brainstorm & learn about at this
  meeting!
  Schedule
  ========
  Preliminary schedule for the three days:
  9:00 Welcome and breakfast
  9:30 Meeting starts
  12:30 Lunch
  17:00 End of the official schedule
  Gunner and Beatrice from Aspiration will help running the meeting. We will
  collect your input in subsequent emails to make the best of everyone's time.
  Feel free to start thinking about what you want to achieve there. We will also
  adjust topics as the meeting goes.
  Please note that we are very likely to spend large parts of the meeting away
  from laptops and closer to post-it notes. So make sure you've answered any
  critical emails *before* Tuesday morning! :)
  

Reproducible work in other projects Pierre Pronchery reported that that he has built the foundations for doing more reproducibility work in NetBSD. Packages fixed Upstream bugs and patches:

• Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
  • qutim used RANDOM which is unpredictable and unreproducible.
  • dpdk used locale-dependent sort.

Reproducibility non-maintainer uploads in Debian:

• Chris Lamb:
  • mailfront for bugs #777431 & #847020.
  • plib-doc for bugs #778971 & #557676.
  • ipsvd for bugs #777417 & #846890.
• Holger Levsen
  • keyutils for bug #828681.

QA fixes in Debian:

• Adrian Bunk:
  • #878329 filed against sonic-visualiser.
  • #878333 filed against tree-puzzle.

Reviews of unreproducible packages 6 package reviews have been added, 30 have been updated and 37 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues. Weekly QA work During our reproducibility testing, FTBFS bugs have been detected and reported by:

• Adrian Bunk (40)
• Eric Valette (1)
• Markus Koschany (1)

diffoscope development

• Ximin Luo:
  • Containers: diff the metadata of containers in one central location in the code, so that deep-diff works between all combinations of different container types. This lets us finally close #797759.
  • Tests: add a complete set of cases to test all pairs of container types.
• Chris Lamb:
  • Temporarily skip the test for ps2ascii(1) in ghostscript > 9.21 which now outputs text in a slightly different format.
  • UI wording improvements.

reprotest development Version 0.7.3 was uploaded to unstable by Ximin Luo. It included contributions already covered by posts of the previous weeks, as well as new ones:

• Ximin Luo:
  • Add a --env-build option for testing builds under different sets of environment variables. This is meant to help the discussion over at #876055 about how we should deal with different types of environment variables in a stricter definition of reproducibility.
  • UI and logging tweaks and improvements.
  • Simplify the _shell_ast module and merge it into shell_syn.

Misc. This week's edition was written by Ximin Luo, Chris Lamb and Holger Levsen & reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC & the mailing lists.