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18 December 2022

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

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

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

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

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7 December 2022

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in November 2022

FTP master This month I accepted 292 and rejected 43 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 295. Debian LTS This was my hundred-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 14h. During that time I uploaded: I also started to work on ring, but this seems to be a pile of work. Not least because at the moment the package does not migrate to testing. Further I started to investigate what packages are really affected by CVE-2018-17942. It looks like some upstreams and their corresponding maintainers did not care about that CVE in the embedded gnulib. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian ELTS This month was the fifty second ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian Mobcom This month I uploaded improved packages of: Other stuff This month I uploaded improved packages of:

19 November 2022

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

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

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

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

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4 November 2022

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in October 2022

FTP master This month I accepted 484 and rejected 55 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 492. Debian LTS This was my hundredth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. Woohoo, There is a party. (yes I am old). Unfortunately there are already 101 completed month listed in the debian-lts-announce archive, so I seem to have counted wrong once. *sigh*, yes I am old. This month my all in all workload has been 14h. During that time I uploaded: I also started to work on virglrenderer. Last but not least I took care of NEW packages on security-master. Debian ELTS This month was the fifty first ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: I also started to work on snapd. Last but not least I finally managed to become familiar with the git workflow and imported several packages to the salsa repository. Debian Astro This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: I also uploaded a new package pysqm. This software supports the Sky Quality Meters made by Unihedron. I was kindly given an SQM-LU for USB and SQM-LE with network adapter. I plan to put a working Python3 version of the old PySQM software into Debian, package the UDM (Unihedron Device Manager) and finally check the support within Indi. Debian IoT This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: Debian Mobcom This month I finished the transition of the Osmocom packages, except
osmo-mgw and osmo-msc seem to have problems. I have no idea how I can solve this, so help is appreciated. Other stuff This month I uploaded new packages:

3 October 2022

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in September 2022

FTP master This month I accepted 226 and rejected 33 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 232. All in all I addressed about 60 RM-bugs and either simply removed the package or added a moreinfo tag. In total I spent 5 hours for this task. Anyway, I have to repeat my comment from last month: please have a look at the removal page and check whether the created dak command is really what you wanted. It would also help if you check the reverse dependencies and write a comment whether they are important or can be ignored or also file a new bug for them. Each removal must have one bug! Debian LTS This was my ninety-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 14h. During that time I uploaded: I also started to work on frr. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties and took care of issues on security-master. Debian ELTS This month was the fiftieth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian Printing This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: Debian IoT This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: Debian Mobcom This month I started another upload session for new upstrea versions: Other stuff This month I uploaded new packages:

8 September 2022

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in August 2022

FTP master This month I accepted 375 and rejected 25 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 386. I also had a closer look at the RM-bugs. All in all I addressed about 90 of them and either simply removed the package or added a moreinfo tag. In total I spent 13 hours for this task. Anyway, if you want to have your RM-bug processed in a timely manner, please have a look at the removal page and check whether the created dak command is really what you wanted. It would also help if you check the reverse dependencies and write a comment whether they are important or can be ignored or also file a new bug for them. Each removal must have one bug! Debian LTS This was my ninety-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 30.00h. As I started to become a Freexian collaborator in this month, I only worked 17h on the LTS project. During that time I uploaded: I also started to work on upx-ucl. Debian ELTS This month was the forty-ninth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: Debian Printing This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: Debian Astro This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of:

31 August 2022

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

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

5 August 2022

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in July 2022

FTP master This month I accepted 420 and rejected 44 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 422. I am sad to write the following lines, but unfortunately there are people who rather take advantage of others instead of doing a proper maintenance of their packages. So, in order to find time slots for as much packages in NEW as possible, I no longer write a debian/copyright for others. I know it is a boring task to collect the copyright information, but our policy still requires this. Of course nobody is perfect and certainly one or the other license or copyright holder can be overlooked. Luckily most of the contributors maintain their debian/copyright very thouroughly with a terrific result. On the other hand some contributors upload only some crap and demand that I exactly list what is missing. I am no longer willing to do this. I am going to stop processing after I found a few missing things and reject the package. When I see repeatedly uploads containing only improvements with things I pointed out, I will process this package only after all others from NEW are done. Debian LTS This was my ninety-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 35.75h. Unfortunately Stretch LTS has moved to Stretch ELTS and Buster LTS was not yet opened in July. So I think this is the first month I did not work all assigned hours. Besides things on security-master, I only worked 20h on moving the LTS documentation to their new destination. At the moment the documentation is spread over several locations. As searching over all those locations is not possible, it shall be collected at one place. Debian ELTS This month was the forty-eighth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: I also started to work on mod-wsgi and my patch was already approved by the maintainer. Now I am waiting for the security team to decide whether it will be uploaded as DSA or via PU. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Other stuff This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of:

26 July 2022

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

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

This is a special month, where we have two releases (stretch and jessie) as ELTS and NO release as LTS. Buster is still handled by the security team and will probably be given in LTS hands at the beginning of the August. During this month we are updating the infrastructure, documentation and improve our internal processes to switch to a new release.
Many developers have just returned back from Debconf22, hold in Prizren, Kosovo! Many (E)LTS members could meet face-to-face and discuss some technical and social topics! Also LTS BoF took place, where the project was introduced (link to video).
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3 July 2022

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in June 2022

FTP master This month I accepted 305 and rejected 59 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 310. From time to time I am also looking at the list of packages to be removed. If you would like to make life easier for the people who remove packages, please make sure that the resulting dak command really makes sense. If this command consists of garbage, please adapt the Subject: of your bug report accordingly. Also it does not make sense to file bugs to remove packages from NEW. Please don t hesitate to close such bugs again Debian LTS This was my ninety-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 30.25h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of: I have to admit that I totally ignored the EOL of Stretch LTS, so my upload of ncurses needs to go to Stretch ELTS now. This month I also moved/refactored the current LTS documentation to a new repository and started to move the LTS Wiki as well. I also continued to work on security support for golang packages. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties and took care of issues on security-master. At this point I also need to mention my first business trip . I drove the short distance between Chemnitz and Freiberg and met Anton to have a face to face talk about LTS/ELTS. It was a great pleasure and definitely more fun than a meeting on IRC. Debian ELTS This month was the forty-seventh ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: Due to the delay of my ncurses upload to Stretch LTS, the ELTS upload got delayed as well. Now I will do both uploads to ELTS in July. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian Printing This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: Debian Astro As there has been a new indi release arriving in Debian, I uploaded new upstream versions of most of the indi-3rdparty packages. Don t hesitate to tell me whether you really use one of them :-). Other stuff This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of:

23 June 2022

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

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

6 June 2022

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in May 2022

FTP master This month I accepted 288 and rejected 45 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 290. Debian LTS This was my ninety-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 40h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of: Further I continued working on libvirt and started to work on blender and ncurses. I also continued to work on security support for golang packages. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties and took care of issues on security-master. Debian ELTS This month was the forty-seventh ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: I also moved/refactored the current ELTS documentation to a new repository. Further I started to work on blender and ncurses in ELTS as well as in LTS. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian Printing This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: The reason for the new upstream version of ipp-usb was a strange bug. Some HP printers claim to have fax support but fail to respond to corresponding IPP queries. I understand that nowadays sending a fax is no longer a main theme for quality assurance. But if one tries to advertise as much features as possible, all these features should basically work and not prevent the things a printer should normally do. The reason for the new upstream version of cups was a security issue. You now should have the latest version of cups installed (there have been updates in other Debian releases as well). Debian Astro This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: Other stuff This month I uploaded new packages:

3 June 2022

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

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

8 May 2022

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in April 2022

FTP master This month I accepted 186 and rejected 26 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 188. Debian LTS This was my ninety-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 40h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of: Further I worked on libvirt, the dependency problems in unstable have been resolved and fixing in other releases can continue. I also continued to work on security support for golang packages. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian ELTS This month was the forty-siyth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian Printing This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: As I already became the maintainer of usb-modeswitch I also adopted usb-modeswitch-data Debian Astro Unfortunately I didn t do anything for this group, but in May I will upload a new version of openvlbi and several indi-3rdparty packages. Other stuff Last but not least I uploaded several new upstream version of golang packages but not before checking with ratt that all dependencies still work.

28 April 2022

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

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

6 April 2022

Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in March 2022

FTP master This month I accepted 332 and rejected 15 packages. This ratio gives a reason to hope. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 342. Debian LTS This was my ninety-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 40h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of: All my PU bugs for Buster and Bullseye, that accumulated over the last months, were part of the latest point release. So new ones have to be created now :-). I also continued to work on security support for golang packages. As a result #1008577 and #1008578 were the first real tests with a simple package. Debian ELTS This month was the forty-fifth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded: Unfortunately uploads have to be done for younger releases first, so I had to withhold some uploads for ELTS. Hopefully they can be done in April. Probably this policy needs to be reconsidered. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties. Debian Printing This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: In order to make the Debian Edu team happy, I uploaded a new version of cups-filters with an adapted Apparmor-file to Unstable and Bullseye. 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: In order to avoid an AUTORM of some Osmocom packages, I also had to NMU:

17 March 2022

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

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

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