The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:

• Aquila Macedo (aquila)
• Peter Blackman (peterb)
• Kiran S Kunjumon (hacksk)
• Ben Westover (bjw)

The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:

• Vladimir Petko
• Antonin Delpeuch
• Nadzeya Hutsko
• Aryan Karamtoth
• Carl Keinath
• Richard Nelson

Congratulations!

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Updating old Debian Printing software to meet C23 requirements, by Thorsten Alteholz The work of Thorsten fell under the motto gcc15 . Due to the introduction of gcc15 in Debian, the default language version was changed to C23. This means that for example, function declarations without parameters are no longer allowed. As old software, which was created with ANSI C (or C89) syntax, made use of such function declarations, it was a busy month. One could have used something like -std=c17 as compile flags, but this would have just postponed the tasks. As a result Thorsten uploaded modernized versions of ink, nm2ppa and rlpr for the Debian printing team.

Work done to decommission packages.qa.debian.org, by Rapha l Hertzog Rapha l worked to decommission the old package tracking system (packages.qa.debian.org). After figuring out that it was still receiving emails from the bug tracking system (bugs.debian.org), from multiple debian lists and from some release team tools, he reached out to the respective teams to either drop those emails or adjust them so that they are sent to the current Debian Package Tracker (tracker.debian.org).

rebootstrap uses *-for-host, by Helmut Grohne Architecture cross bootstrapping is an ongoing effort that has shaped Debian in various ways over the years. A longer effort to express toolchain dependencies now bears fruit. When cross compiling, it becomes important to express what architecture one is compiling for in Build-Depends. As these packages have become available in trixie , more and more packages add this extra information and in August, the libtool package gained a gfortran-for-host dependency. It was the first package in the essential build closure to adopt this and required putting the pieces together in rebootstrap that now has to build gcc-defaults early on. There still are hundreds of packages whose dependencies need to be updated though.

Miscellaneous contributions

• Rapha l dropped the Build Log Scan integration in tracker.debian.org since it was showing stale data for a while as the underlying service has been discontinued.
• Emilio updated pixman to 0.46.4.
• Emilio coordinated several transitions, and NMUed guestfs-tools to unblock one.
• Stefano uploaded Python 3.14rc3 to Debian unstable. It s not yet used by any packages, but it allows testing the level of support in packages to begin.
• Stefano upgraded almost all of the debian-social infrastructure to Debian trixie .
• Stefano published the sponsorship brochures for DebConf 26.
• Stefano attended the Debian Technical Committee meeting.
• Stefano uploaded routine upstream updates for a handful of Python packages (pycparser, beautifulsoup4, platformdirs, pycparser, python-authlib, python-cffi, python-mitogen, python-resolvelib, python-super-collections, twine).
• Stefano reviewed and responded to DebConf 25 feedback.
• Stefano investigated and fixed a request visibility bug in debian-reimbursements (for admin-altered requests).
• Lucas reviewed a couple of merge requests from external contributors for Go and Ruby packages.
• Lucas updated some ruby packages to its latest upstream version (thin, passenger, and puma is still WIP).
• Lucas set up the build environment to run rebuilds of reverse dependencies of ruby using ruby3.4. As an alternative, he is looking for personal repositories provided by Debusine to perform this task more easily. This is the preparation for the transition to ruby3.4 as the default in Debian.
• Lucas helped on the next round of the Outreachy internship program.
• Helmut sent patches for 30 cross build failures and responded to cross building support questions on the mailing list.
• Helmut continued to maintain rebootstrap. As gcc version 15 became the default, test jobs for version 14 had to be dropped. A fair number of patches were applied to packages and could be dropped.
• Helmut resumed removing RC-buggy packages from unstable and sponsored a termrec upload to avoid its deletion. This work was paused to give packages some time to migrate to forky .
• Santiago reviewed different merge requests created by different contributors. Those MRs include a new test to build reverse dependencies, created by Aquila Macedo as part of his GSoC internship; restore how lintian was used in experimental, thanks Otto Kek l inen; and the fix by Christian Bayle to support again extra repositories in deb822-style sources, whose support was broken with the move to sbuild+unshare last month.
• While doing some new upstream release updates, thanks to Debusine s reverse dependencies autopkgtest checks, Santiago discovered that paramiko 4.0 will introduce a regression in libcloud by the drop of support for the obsolete DSA keys. Santiago finally uploaded to unstable both paramiko 4.0, and a regression fix for libcloud.
• Santiago has taken part in different discussions and meetings for the preparation of DebConf 26. The DebConf 26 local team aims to prepare for the conference with enough time in advance.
• Carles kept working on the missing-package-relations and reporting missing Recommends. He improved the tooling to detect and report bugs creating 269 bugs and followed up comments. 37 bugs have been resolved, others acknowledged. The missing Recommends are a mixture of packages that are gone from Debian, packages that changed name, typos and also packages that were recommended but are not packaged in Debian.
• Carles improved the missing-package-relations to report broken Suggests only for packages that used to be in Debian but are removed from it now. No bugs have been created yet for this case but identified 1320 of them.
• Colin spent much of the month chasing down build/test regressions in various Python packages due to other upgrades, particularly relating to pydantic, python-pytest-asyncio, and rust-pyo3.
• Colin optimized some code in ubuntu-dev-tools (affecting e.g. pull-debian-source) that made O(n) HTTP requests when it could instead make O(1).
• Anupa published Micronews as part of Debian Publicity team work.

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

Debian LTS contributors In March, 20 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:

• Adrian Bunk did 51.5h (out of 0.0h assigned and 51.5h from previous period).
• Andreas Henriksson did 20.0h (out of 20.0h assigned).
• Andrej Shadura did 6.0h (out of 10.0h assigned), thus carrying over 4.0h to the next month.
• Bastien Roucari s did 20.0h (out of 20.0h assigned).
• Ben Hutchings did 12.0h (out of 12.0h assigned and 12.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 12.0h to the next month.
• Chris Lamb did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
• Daniel Leidert did 26.0h (out of 23.0h assigned and 3.0h from previous period).
• Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 37.0h (out of 36.5h assigned and 0.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 0.25h to the next month.
• Guilhem Moulin did 8.25h (out of 11.0h assigned and 9.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 11.75h to the next month.
• Jochen Sprickerhof did 18.0h (out of 24.25h assigned and 3.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 9.25h to the next month.
• Lee Garrett did 10.25h (out of 0.0h assigned and 42.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 31.75h to the next month.
• Lucas Kanashiro did 4.0h (out of 0.0h assigned and 56.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 52.0h to the next month.
• Markus Koschany did 27.25h (out of 27.25h assigned).
• Roberto C. S nchez did 8.25h (out of 7.0h assigned and 17.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 15.75h to the next month.
• Santiago Ruano Rinc n did 17.5h (out of 19.75h assigned and 5.25h from previous period), thus carrying over 7.5h to the next month.
• Sean Whitton did 7.0h (out of 7.0h assigned).
• Sylvain Beucler did 32.0h (out of 31.0h assigned and 1.25h from previous period), thus carrying over 0.25h to the next month.
• Thorsten Alteholz did 11.0h (out of 11.0h assigned).
• Tobias Frost did 7.75h (out of 12.0h assigned), thus carrying over 4.25h to the next month.
• Utkarsh Gupta did 15.0h (out of 15.0h assigned).

Evolution of the situation In March, we have released 31 DLAs.

• Notable security updates:
  • linux-6.1 (1 2)and linux, prepared by Ben Hutchings, fixed an extensive list of vulnerabilities
  • firefox-esr, prepared by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, fixed a variety of vulnerabilities
  • intel-microcode, prepared by Tobias Frost, fixed several local privilege escalation, denial of service, and information disclosure vulnerabilities
  • vim, prepared by Sean Whitton, fixed a multitude of vulnerabilities, including many application crashes, buffer overflows, and out-of-bounds reads

The recent trend of contributions from contributors external to the formal LTS team has continued. LTS contributor Sylvain Beucler reviewed and facilitated an update to openvpn proposed by Aquila Macedo, resulting in the publication of DLA 4079-1. Thanks a lot to Aquila for preparing the update. The LTS Team continues to make contributions to the current stable Debian release, Debian 12 (codename bookworm ). LTS contributor Bastien Roucari s prepared a stable upload of krb5 to ensure that fixes made in the LTS release, Debian 11 (codename bullseye ) were also made available to stable users. Additional stable updates, for tomcat10 and jetty9, were prepared by LTS contributor Markus Koschany. And, finally, LTS contributor Utkarsh Gupta prepared stable updates for rails and ruby-rack. LTS contributor Emilio Pozuelo Monfort has continued his ongoing improvements to the Debian security tracker and its associated tooling, making the data contained in the tracker more reliable and easing interaction with it. The ckeditor3 package, which has been EOL by upstream for some time, is still depended upon by the PHP Horde packages in Debian. Sylvain, along with Bastien, did monumental work in coordinating with maintainers, security team fellows, and other Debian teams, to formally declare the EOL of the ckeditor3 package in Debian 11 and in Debian 12. Additionally, as a result of this work Sylvain has worked towards the removal of ckeditor3 as a dependency by other packages in order to facilitate the complete removal of ckeditor3 from all future Debian releases.

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title: Debian Day 30 years online in Brazil description: by Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls) published: true date: 2025-03-01T17:39:03.284Z tags: blog, english editor: markdown dateCreated: 2023-08-25T16:00:00.000Z In 2023 the traditional Debian Day is being celebrated in a special way, after all on August 16th Debian turned 30 years old! To celebrate this special milestone in the Debian's life, the Debian Brasil community organized a week with talks online from August 14th to 18th. The event was named Debian 30 years. Two talks were held per night, from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, streamed on the Debian Brasil channel on YouTube totaling 10 talks. The recordings are also available on the Debian Brazil channel on Peertube. We had the participation of 9 DDs, 1 DM, 3 contributors in 10 activities. The live audience varied a lot, and the peak was on the preseed talk with Eriberto Mota when we had 47 people watching. Thank you to all participants for the contribution you made to the success of our event.

• Antonio Terceiro
• Aquila Macedo
• Charles Melara
• Daniel Lenharo de Souza
• David Polverari
• Eriberto Mota
• Giovani Ferreira
• Jefferson Maier
• Lucas Kanashiro
• Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
• Sergio Durigan Junior
• Thais Araujo
• Thiago Andrade

Veja abaixo as fotos de cada atividade: Nova gera o: uma entrevista com iniciantes no projeto Debian Instala o personalizada e automatizada do Debian com preseed Manipulando patches com git-buildpackage debian.social: Socializando Debian do jeito Debian Proxy reverso com WireGuard Celebra o dos 30 anos do Debian! Instalando o Debian em disco criptografado com LUKS O que a equipe de localiza o j conquistou nesses 30 anos Debian - Projeto e Comunidade! Design Gr fico e Software livre, o que fazer e por onde come ar

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:

• Dennis van Dok (dvandok)
• Peter Wienemann (wiene)
• Quentin Lejard (valde)
• Sven Geuer (sge)
• Taavi V n nen (taavi)
• Hilmar Preusse (hille42)
• Matthias Geiger (werdahias)
• Yogeswaran Umasankar (yogu)

The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:

• Bernhard Miklautz
• Felix Moessbauer
• Maytham Alsudany
• Aquila Macedo
• David Lamparter
• Tim Theisen
• Stefano Brivio
• Shengqi Chen

Congratulations!

Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services. P.S. We ve completed over a year of writing these blogs. If you have any suggestions on how to make them better or what you d like us to cover, or any other opinions/reviews you might have, et al, please let us know by dropping an email to us. We d be happy to hear your thoughts. :)

Salsa CI updates & GSoC candidacy, by Santiago Ruano Rincon In the context of Google Summer of Code (GSoC), Santiago continued the mentoring work, following the applications of three of the candidates. This work started in March, but Aquila Macedo, Ahmed Siam and Piyush Raj continued in April to propose and review MRs. For example, Update CI pipeline to utilize specific blhc image per release and Remove references to buster-backports by Aquila, or the reviews the candidates made to Document the structure of the different components of the pipeline (see below). Unfortunately, the Salsa CI project didn t get any slot from the GSoC program in the end. Along with the Salsa CI related work, Santiago improved the documentation of Salsa CI, to make it easier for newcomers (as the GSoC candidates) or people willing to fork the project to understand its internals. Documentation is an aspect where a lot of improvements can be made.

OpenSSH option review, by Colin Watson In light of last month s xz-utils backdoor, Colin did an extensive review of some of the choices in Debian s OpenSSH packaging. Some work on this has already been done (removing uses of libsystemd and reducing tcp-wrappers linkage); the next step is likely to be to start work on the plan to split out GSS-API key exchange again.

Miscellaneous contributions

• Utkarsh Gupta started to put together and kickstart the bursary team ahead of DebConf 24, to be held in Busan, South Korea.
• Utkarsh Gupta reviewed some MRs and docs for the bursary team for the DC24 website.
• Helmut Grohne sent patches for 19 cross build failures and submitted a gcc patch removing LIMITS_H_TEST upstream.
• Helmut sent 8 bug reports with 3 patches related to the /usr-move.
• Helmut diagnosed why /dev/stdout is not accessible in sbuild --mode=unshare.
• Helmut diagnosed the time64-induced glibc FTBFS.
• Helmut sent patches for fixing initramfs triggers on firmware removal.
• Thorsten Alteholz uploaded foo2zjs and fixed two bugs, one related to /usr-merge. Likewise the upload of cups-filters (from the 1.x branch) fixed three bugs. In order to fix an RC bug in cpdb-backends-cups, which was updated to the 2.x branch, the new package libcupsfilters has been introduced. Last but not least an upload of hplip fixed one RC bug and an upload of gutenprint fixed two of them. All of these RC bugs were more or less related to the time_t transition.
• Santiago continued to work in the DebConf organization tasks, including some for the DebConf 24 Content Team, and looking to build a local community for DebConf 25.
• Stefano Rivera made a couple of uploads of dh-python to Debian, and a few other general package update uploads.
• Stefano did some winding up of DebConf 23 finances, including closing bursary claims and recording the amounts spent on travel bursaries.
• Stefano opened DebConf 24 registration, which always requires some last-minute work on the website.
• Colin released man-db 2.12.1.
• Colin fixed a regression in groff s PDF output.
• In the Python team, Colin fixed build/autopkgtest failures in seven packages, and updated ten packages to new upstream versions.

Em 2023 o tradicional Debian Day est sendo celebrado de forma especial, afinal no dia 16 de agostoo Debian completou 30 anos! Para comemorar este marco especial na vida do Debian, a comunidade Debian Brasil organizou uma semana de palestras online de 14 a 18 de agosto. O evento foi chamado de Debian 30 anos. Foram realizadas 2 palestras por noite, das 19h s 22h, transmitidas pelo canal Debian Brasil no YouTube totalizando 10 palestras. As grava es j est o dispon veis tamb m no canal Debian Brasil no Peertube. Nas 10 atividades tivemos as participa es de 9 DDs, 1 DM, 3 contribuidores(as). A audi ncia ao vivo variou bastante, e o pico foi na palestra sobre preseed com o Eriberto Mota quando tivemos 47 pessoas assistindo. Obrigado a todos(as) participantes pela contribui o que voc s deram para o sucesso do nosso evento.

• Antonio Terceiro
• Aquila Macedo
• Charles Melara
• Daniel Lenharo de Souza
• David Polverari
• Eriberto Mota
• Giovani Ferreira
• Jefferson Maier
• Lucas Kanashiro
• Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
• Sergio Durigan Junior
• Thais Araujo
• Thiago Andrade

Veja abaixo as fotos de cada atividade:
Nova gera o: uma entrevista com iniciantes no projeto Debian
Instala o personalizada e automatizada do Debian com preseed
Manipulando patches com git-buildpackage
debian.social: Socializando Debian do jeito Debian
Proxy reverso com WireGuard
Celebra o dos 30 anos do Debian!
Instalando o Debian em disco criptografado com LUKS
O que a equipe de localiza o j conquistou nesses 30 anos
Debian - Projeto e Comunidade!
Design Gr fico e Software livre, o que fazer e por onde come ar