Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in February 2022
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This month I accepted 484 and rejected 73 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 495.
The overall number of rejected packages was 76, which is about 15% of the uploads to NEW. While most of the maintainers do a great job when creating their debian/copyright, others are a bit lax. Unfortunately those people seem to be more enthusiastic when fighting for changes in NEW processing or even removing NEW.
One argument in discussions about NEW is that the copyright verification of packages can be done by the community after accepting the packages in the archive.
Last month I did not get any hint that such checks have been done by anybody. As the past already showed several times, this community based checks simply do not exist. So in the end poorly maintained copyright information will rot in the archive and I am not sure that this really corresponds with the Debian Social Contract. Debian LTS This was my ninety-second month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. This month my all in all workload has been 40h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of:
Last month I did not get any hint that such checks have been done by anybody. As the past already showed several times, this community based checks simply do not exist. So in the end poorly maintained copyright information will rot in the archive and I am not sure that this really corresponds with the Debian Social Contract. Debian LTS This was my ninety-second month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. This month my all in all workload has been 40h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of:
- [DLA 2928-1] htmldoc security update for three CVEs
- [#1004049] buster-pu: zziplib debdiff was approved and package uploaded
- [#1004050] bullseye-pu: zziplib debdiff was approved and package uploaded
- [#1004055] buster-pu: debdiff was approved and package uploaded
- [#1006493] bullseye-pu: htmldoc/1.9.11-4+deb11u2
- [#1006494] buster-pu: htmldoc/1.9.3-1+deb10u3
- [#1006550] buster-pu: tiff/4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u4
- [#1006551] bullseye-pu: tiff/4.2.0-1+deb11u1
- ELA-567-1 for apache2
- ELA-567-2 for apache2
- ELA-568-1 for ksh
- ELA-569-1 for tiff
- ELA-570-1 for htmldoc
- duktape
- meep
- bitshuffle
- several golang packages