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5 March 2022

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in February 2022

FTP master 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: Unfortunately salsa went down at the end of the month, so several planned uploads did not happen and have to be delayed to March. I also continued to work on security support for golang packages. Further I worked on packages in NEW on security-master and injected missing sources. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian ELTS This month was the forty-fourth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: Further I worked on cyrus-sasl but did not do an upload yet. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian Printing As announced last month I uploaded a new version of cups. Altogether I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: Debian Astro This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: Other stuff This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of:

21 February 2022

Raphaël Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, January 2022

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Every month we review the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Please find the report for January below. Debian project funding We continue to looking forward to hearing about Debian project proposals from various Debian stakeholders. This month has seen work on a survey that will go out to Debian Developers to gather feedback on what they think should be the priorities for funding in the project. Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In January, 13 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. Evolution of the situation In January we released 34 DLAs. The security tracker currently lists 39 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 20 packages still needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

5 February 2022

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in January 2022

FTP master This month I accepted 342 and rejected 57 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 366. Lately I was asked: Is it ftpmaster s opinion and policy that there is no difference in NEW queue review process between bin and src? This is a yes/no-question and in this generality the answer is clearly: Every package in NEW needs a full review. Of course there are circumstances with exceptions. For example after an upload of -1, which would get a full review, the upload of -2 afterwards, introducing a new binary package, would get a much faster review. In this case it would make sense to ping on IRC and draw attention to this. Nevertheless the evaluation of a light review might differ between the maintainer and the person doing the review. Debian LTS This was my ninety-first 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: I also started to work on security support for golang packages. Though this sounds like an easy task, the devel is in the details.
As CVEs need to be fixed in unstable first, at the moment it looks like this is the most time consuming task. I will report later on my journey to fix open CVEs in golang-github-russellhaering-goxmldsig Further I worked on packages in NEW on security-master and injected missing sources. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties and attended an LTS meeting on IRC. Debian ELTS This month was the forty-third ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: Further I worked on an update for apache2 Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian Printing I was finally able to upload a new version of hplip and Ubuntu is now able to build new snaps for their next release.
Altogether I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: Now the dashboard looks rather good and my next task for February is an update of cups. Debian Astro As there was a release of version 1.9.4 of INDI and indi-3rdparty, I also uploaded the new version of all INDI drivers and releated libs from indi-3rdparty. Other stuff This month I uploaded lots of new upstream releases of golang packages.

3 January 2022

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in December 2021

FTP master This month I accepted 412 and rejected 44 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 423. Debian LTS This was my ninetieth 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: I also started to work on libarchive Further I worked on packages in NEW on security-master. In order to faster process such packages, I added a notification when work arrived there. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian ELTS This month was the forty-second ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian Astro Related to my previous article about fun with telescopes I uploaded new versions or did source uploads for: Besides the indi-stuff I also uploaded Other stuff I celebrated christmas :-).

29 December 2021

Thorsten Alteholz: Fun with Telescopes

Recently I purchased a small telescope to look at solar spots. When choosing a mount, I checked whether it can be controlled with OSS. In this context INDI is mentioned everywhere and my desired mount was supported. indi and kstars are already part of Debian, so apt install , selecting my mount, . oh, wait, the menu shows it, but I can not select it. Ok, that was the time when I learned about the difference of indi and indi-3rdparty. The indi package just contains a few drivers and others are available from a different repository. This split has been done either due to different release cycles of the driver, a different OSS license of it, or just due to binary blobs without source being part of some drivers. Fine, there are already packages of the 3rdparty-repository available from an Ubuntu PPA, so it should be no problem to add them do Debian as well. Some manufacturers freely distribute at least the specification of their API so that others are able to write the corresponding software. Some manufacturers even write their own driver. Examples are: A minor part actually does not have binary blobs but distributes the sources of their software. Unfortunately they have licenses that are not compatible with DFSG and those packages still need to go to non-free. Examples are: But there also seem to exist lots of manufacturers of astronomically accessories, especially cameras, that just distribute some binary blobs to talk to their hardware. This is sad, but at the moment it is just the way it is and such package need to go to non-free. Luckily their blobs are accompanied with corresponding licenses. At least those manufacturers understand how software licenses work and packaging their SDK is just straight forward. Examples are: However, when looking at the license information of some Ubuntu packages, several of them were distributed under a CC license. This is not a common license for software, so I wanted to get a confirmation whether these information are correct. Unfortunately most of such manufacturers don t want to disclose their licenses. For whatever reason they distribute their tarballs without any hint and emails to their support channels are just ignored. Examples of such bad behaviour are: However the best answer comes from the Levenhuk support. My question about the license of their SDK was answered by:
I am afraid we cannot disclose any further information except the software file that is available on our website.
So strictly speaking nobody is allowed to use their software. I wonder whether such competence also becomes visible in their products. I will never really know as there are more than enough OSS friendly manufacturers available. Anyway, most of the indi-3rdparty drivers are now available and I got lots of suggestions about hardware I need to buy in the future :-).

16 December 2021

Raphaël Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, November 2021

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Every month we review the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Please find the report for November below. Debian project funding We continue to looking forward to hearing about Debian project proposals from various Debian stakeholders. This month has seen work on a survey that will go out to Debian Developers to gather feedback on what they think should be the priorities for funding in the project. Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In November 13 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 if you are interested in participating. Evolution of the situation In November we released 31 DLAs. The security tracker currently lists 23 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 16 packages needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

1 December 2021

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in November 2021

FTP master This month I accepted 564 and rejected 93 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 591. Debian LTS This was my eighty-ninth 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: I also started to work on pgbouncer to get an update for each release and had to process packages from NEW on security-master. Further I worked on a script to automatically publish DLAs on the Debian website, that are posted to debian-lts-announce. The script can be found on salsa. It only publishes stuff from people on a whitelist. At the moment it is running on a computer at home. You might run your own copy, or just send me an email to be put on the whitelist as well. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian ELTS This month was the forty-first ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian Printing Unfortunately I did not do as much as I wanted this month. At least I looked at some old bugs and uploaded new upstream versions of I hope this will improve in December again. New versions of cups and hplip are on my TODO-list. Debian Astro This month I uploaded new versions of Other stuff I improved packaging or fixed bugs of:

17 November 2021

Raphaël Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, October 2021

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Every month we review the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Please find the report for October below. Debian project funding We re looking forward to receiving more projects from various Debian teams! Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In October 12 contributors were paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available below. Evolution of the situation In October we released 34 DLAs.

Also, we would like to remark once again that we are constantly looking for new contributors. Please contact Jeremiah if you are interested! The security tracker currently lists 37 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 22 packages needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

1 November 2021

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in October 2021

FTP master This month I accepted 341 and rejected 46 packages. The rejection is as high as last month. I hope everybody is aware that pressing just one key when accepting a package is much faster than writing an explanation why a package has to be rejected. Anyway, the overall number of packages that got accepted was 355. Debian LTS This was my eighty-eighth 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 28.5h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of: I also continued to work on exiv2. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian ELTS This month was the fortieth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian Printing I improved packaging or fixed bugs or uploaded a new version of: Last but not least I looked at some old bugs and checked whether they could be closed. Debian Astro Though being a silent member of Debian Astro for a long time, I am now going to be more active now. Most of the time I will be focused on packages for telescope control, but of course I won t stay away from other topics. So I uploaded: If you know of other missing packages, don t hesitate to tell me! Other stuff On my neverending golang challenge I again uploaded some packages either for NEW or as source upload. I uploaded new upstream versions of: I improved packaging or fixed bugs of:

19 October 2021

Raphaël Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, September 2021

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Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding Folks from the LTS team, along with members of the Debian Android Tools team and Phil Morrel, have proposed work on the Java build tool, gradle, which is currently blocked due to the need to build with a plugin not available in Debian. The LTS team reviewed the project submission and it has been approved. After approval we ve created a Request for Bids which is active now. You ll hear more about this through official Debian channels, but in the meantime, if you feel you can help with this project, please submit a bid. Thanks! This September, Freexian set aside 2550 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 September, 15 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Evolution of the situation In September we released 30 DLAs. September was also the second month of Jeremiah coordinating LTS contributors. Also, we would like say that we are always looking for new contributors to LTS. Please contact Jeremiah if you are interested! The security tracker currently lists 33 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 26 packages needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

9 October 2021

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in September 2021

FTP master This month I accepted 224 and rejected 47 packages. This is almost thrice the rejects of last month. Please, be more careful and check your package twice before uploading. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 233. Debian LTS This was my eighty-seventh 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 24.75h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of: I also started to work on exiv2 and faad2. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian ELTS This month was the thirty-ninth ELTS month. Unfortunately during my allocated time I could not process any upload. I worked on openssl, curl and squashfs-tools but for one reason or another the prepared packages didn t pass all tests. In order to avoid regressions, I postponed the uploads (meanwhile an ELA for curl was published ). Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Other stuff On my neverending golang challenge I again uploaded some packages either for NEW or as source upload. As Odyx took a break from all Debian activities, I volunteered to take care of the printing packages. Please be merciful when somethings breaks after I did an upload. My first printing upload was hplip

4 October 2021

Raphaël Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, August 2021

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Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding In August, we put aside 2460 EUR to fund Debian projects. We received a new project proposal that got approved and there s an associated bid request if you feel like proposing yourself to implement this project. 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 August, 14 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Evolution of the situation In August we released 30 DLAs.

This is the first month of Jeremiah coordinating LTS contributors. We would like to thank Holger Levsen for his work on this role up to now.

Also, we would like to remark once again that we are constantly looking for new contributors. Please contact Jeremiah if you are interested! The security tracker currently lists 73 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 29 packages needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

8 September 2021

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in August 2021

FTP master Yeah, Bullseye is released, thanks a lot to everybody involved! This month I accepted 242 and rejected 18 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 253. Debian LTS This was my eighty-sixth 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 23.75h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of: I also started to work on openssl, grilo and had to process packages from NEW on security-master. As the CVE of btrbk was later marked as no-dsa, an upload to stable and oldstable is needed now. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian ELTS This month was the thirty-eighth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: I also started to work on openssl. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Other stuff This month I uploaded new upstream versions of: On my neverending golang challenge I again uploaded some packages either for NEW or as source upload.

25 August 2021

Raphaël Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, July 2021

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Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding In July, we put aside 2400 EUR to fund Debian projects. We haven t received proposals of projects to fund in the last months, so we have scheduled a discussion during Debconf to try to to figure out why that is and how we can fix that. Join us on August 26th at 16:00 UTC on this link. We are pleased to announce that Jeremiah Foster will help out to make this initiative a success : he can help Debian members to come up with solid proposals, he can look for people willing to do the work once the project has been formalized and approved, and he will make sure that the project implementation keeps on track when the actual work has begun. 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, 12 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Evolution of the situation In July we released 30 DLAs. Also we were glad to welcome Neil Williams and Lee Garrett who became active contributors. The security tracker currently lists 63 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 17 packages needing an update. We would like to thank Holger Levsen for the years of work where he managed/coordinated the paid LTS contributors. Jeremiah Foster will take over his duties. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

10 August 2021

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in July 2021

FTP master This month I accepted 13 and rejected 2 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 13. As the Release Team prefers not to have any new package upload to unstable, the numbers are this low. I am afraid there is some discussion needed after the release of Bullseye Debian LTS This was my eighty-fifth 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 30h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of: I also made further progress on gpac and started to test the package now. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. I am not sure whether it is just me, but I got the impression that nowadays lots of CVEs can be marked as not-affected in the corresponding Stretch-version. Most of the remaining CVEs only have a small security impact (if at all) and can be marked as no-dsa. So the number of packages that really need an update decreases steadily. Does that mean that all issues in older versions are fixed now? Or are people more focused on new features in software as it is easier to find issues in more or less unexplored code? Debian ELTS This month was the thirty-seventh ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. In ELTS the decreasing number of uploads, as mentioned above, seems to be even more clearly. Other stuff I played a bit with RISC-V and looked after some packages that did not build on that architecture. Generally this looks like fun but building packages with qemu dampens the mood a bit. So if anybody knows some hardware that runs Debian, that is available now and that does not cost more than my car, I would be happy to get some pointer. This month I uploaded new upstream versions of: to experimental. I improved packaging and fixed bugs in: On my neverending golang challenge I again uploaded some packages either for NEW or as source upload.

17 July 2021

Raphaël Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, June 2021

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Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding In June, we put aside 5775 EUR to fund Debian projects for which 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, 12 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Evolution of the situation In June we released 30 DLAs. As already written last month we are looking for a Debian LTS project manager and team coordinator.
Finally, we would like to remark once again that we are constantly looking for new contributors. Please contact Holger if you are interested! The security tracker currently lists 41 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 23 packages needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

8 July 2021

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in June 2021

FTP master This month I accepted 105 and rejected 6 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 111. Debian LTS This was my eighty-fourth 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 almost 30h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of: I also made further progress on gpac. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian ELTS This month was the thirty-sixth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Other stuff On my neverending golang challenge I again uploaded lots of packages either for NEW or as source upload.

15 June 2021

Raphaël Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, May 2021

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Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding In May, we again put aside 2100 EUR to fund Debian projects. There was no proposals for new projects received, thus we re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Please do not hesitate to submit a proposal, if there is a project that could benefit from the funding! 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, 12 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Evolution of the situation In May we released 33 DLAs and mostly skipped our public IRC meeting and the end of the month. In June we ll have another team meeting using video as lined out on our LTS meeting page.
Also, two months ago we announced that Holger would step back from his coordinator role and today we are announcing that he is back for the time being, until a new coordinator is found.
Finally, we would like to remark once again that we are constantly looking for new contributors. Please contact Holger if you are interested! The security tracker currently lists 41 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 21 packages needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

9 June 2021

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in May 2021

FTP master This month I accepted 85 and rejected 6 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was only 88. Yeah, Debian is frozen but hopefully will unfreeze soon. Debian LTS This was my eighty-third 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 29.75h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of: I also made some progress with gpac and struggle with dozens of issues here. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties, which for whatever reason was rather time-consuming this month. Debian ELTS This month was the thirty-fifth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: I also made some progress with python3.4 Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Other stuff On my neverending golang challenge I again uploaded some packages either for NEW or as source upload. Last but not least I adopted gnucobol.

28 May 2021

Raphaël Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, April 2021

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Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding In April, we put aside 5775 EUR to fund Debian projects. There was no proposals for new projects received, thus we re looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams! Please do not hesitate to submit a proposal, if there is a project that could benefit from the funding! 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 33 DLAs and held a LTS team meeting using video conferencing. The security tracker currently lists 53 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 26 packages needing an update. We are please to welcome VyOS as a new gold sponsor! Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

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