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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.

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.

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.

1 September 2021

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in August 2021

Here s my (twenty-third) monthly but brief update about the activities I ve done in the F/L/OSS world.

Debian
This was my 32nd month of actively contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas 19! \o/ Tough month but I mostly spent on it churning through the immense backlog. But that somewhat backfired and I have even more backlog than ever. :D Anyway, I did the following stuff in Debian:

Uploads and bug fixes:
  • ruby3.0 (3.0.0-2) - Upload to unstable! \o/

Other $things:
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.

Ubuntu
This was my 7th month of actively contributing to Ubuntu. Now that I ve joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time, there s a bunch of things I do! \o/ I mostly worked on different things, I guess. But mostly on packaging keylime and some Google Agents upload(s) and SRU(s). Also did a lot of reviewing, et al. I was too lazy to maintain a list of things I worked on so there s no concrete list atm. Maybe I ll get back to this section later or will start to list stuff from next month onward, as I ve been doing before. :D

Debian (E)LTS
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success. And Debian Extended LTS (ELTS) is its sister project, extending support to the Jessie release (+2 years after LTS support). This was my twenty-third month as a Debian LTS and eleventh month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I was assigned 23.75 hours for LTS and 40.00 hours for ELTS and worked on the following things:
(however, I only worked for 23.75h on ELTS work, thereby, carrying the rest to next month)

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

Other (E)LTS Work:
  • Front-desk duty from 26-07 until 01-08 and from 30-08 until 05-09 for both LTS and ELTS.
  • Triaged haproxy, ntfs-3g, and cyrus-imapd, and exiv2, ffmpeg, git, gpac, inetutils, mc, modsecurity-crs, node-object-path, php-pear, systemd-cron, node-tar, ruby2.3, gst-plugins-bad0.10, jsoup, libxstream-java, qemu, tomcat7, ruby2.1, prototypejs, pillow, cpio, and qtbase-opensource-src, and amd64-microcode.
  • Mark CVE-2021-39240/haproxy as not-affected for stretch and jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-39241/haproxy as not-affected for stretch and jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-39242/haproxy as not-affected for stretch and jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-33582/cyrus-imapd as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2020-18771/exiv2 as no-dsa for exiv2 for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2020-18899/exiv2 as no-dsa for exiv2 for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2021-38171/ffmpeg as postponed for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2021-40330/git as no-dsa for stretch and jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2020-19481/gpac as ignored for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2021-40491/inetutils as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2021-36370/mc as no-dsa for stretch and jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-35368/modsecurity-crs as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2021-23434/node-object-path as end-of-life for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2021-32610/php-pear as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2017-9525/systemd-cron as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2021-37701/node-tar as end-of-life for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2021-37712/node-tar as end-of-life in stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2021-3750/qemu as postponsed for jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-27511/prototypejs as postponsed for jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-23437/pillow as postponed for stretch and jessie.
  • Auto EOL ed gpac, cacti, openscad, cgal, cyrus-imapd-2.4, libsolv, mosquitto, atomicparsley, gtkpod, node-tar, libapache2-mod-auth-openidc, neutron, inetutils and linux for jessie.
  • Drop cpio from ela-needed; open issues don t warrant an ELA.
  • Attended monthly Debian LTS meeting.
  • Answered questions (& discussions) on IRC (#debian-lts and #debian-elts).
  • General and other discussions on LTS private and public mailing list.
Until next time.
:wq for today.

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.

23 August 2021

Leandro Doctors: Clojure CLI Tools in Debian - GSoC 2021 Final Report

NOTE: this blog post is based on my "Clojure CLI Tools in Debian" GSoC 2021 project Final Report.

IntroMy name is Leandro Doctors ( allentiak on IRC), and I ve been the GSoC intern working with the Debian Clojure Team during 2021. This is my final report. You can also check my original proposal and my first report.

SummaryWhereas the raw data may not sound by itself very positive, my personal conclusion is. This is, whereas I didn t fully finish the required deliverables envisioned in my original proposal, I do feel I am much closer to, eventually, becoming a Debian Developer. So, by all means, I consider this project has had a positive outcome.

ProjectThe goal of the Clojure Build Tools in Debian project was to provide Clojure Debian users with some of the latest advanced build tools and libraries the upstream Clojure developers have been lately working on. These include tools.deps.alpha, a library for dependency graph resolution and classpath building, and the CLI tool clj, for REPL interaction. If time permitted, I was also to improve the quality of both new and existing Clojure packages, and the overall Debian Clojure packaging process. My mentor was Louis-Louis-Philippe V ronneau, and my co-mentor was Utkarsh Gupta.

MotivationWhy this project? On the one side, if you re a Clojure lover like me, you may have noticed that the Clojure experience in Debian is, as of mid 2021, well... still quiet limited. Additionally, this project aligned with my own background in Free Software community building and my research interest in Peer Production.When I mention how limited today s Clojure experience in Debian is, I can see two reasons for this, deeply intertwined. The first one is that there currently aren t many Clojure-specific packaging tools in Debian (such as a clojure-debian-helper). The second reason for which we only currently have a suboptimal Clojure experience in Debian, and probably the root of the previous one, is that many core build tools and libraries for the language have not simply been packaged yet. My project aimed to attack that seemingly root cause.As I said, another reason for me choosing this project is my own experience as the Co-founder and Leader of, probably, the first Free Software Community experience in my hometown of San Juan, Argentina. That interest in Free Software evolved in a first PhD attempt in what is now known as the field of Peer Production. A subject that has lived within me as a research interest during my day job at a University.Being a Clojure fan, it felt only logical combining all those interests somehow. And this project seemed like the ideal combination.

The Debian Clojure TeamI ve been working with a small, yet very warm team. The current incarnation of the Debian Clojure Team exists thanks to the hard work of three people.Elana Hashman (aka the Clojure necromancer ), revived the team around three years ago. Later on, the team gained the invaluable presence of Louis-Philippe V ronneau and Utkarsh Gupta (my mentor and co-mentor, respectively).Together, these Three Musketeers have maintained the team alive, allowing us, Debian users, to enjoy Clojure.

StatusDuring the first part of my project, I mainly worked on learning the basics of Debian packaging, and got my first package uploaded. I have to thank Louis-Philippe, Utkarsh, and Elana for their immense patience and support during that part, as it took me quite some effort grasping the basics of Debian packaging.During the second part of my project, I worked on my last packages, and almost completed the originally required scope of the project. I only have to finish working on the transition from the currently provided set of packages (based on a Debian-specific clojure runner) to the newly provided upstream clojure and clj runners.Unfortunately, I didn t have much time left to start working on the opportunities for improvement already identified by the Debian Clojure Team originally outlined in my proposal. Whereas I did update one older Clojure package not built using leiningen (tools-data-xml-clojure), I didn t write any Lintian tags to make Clojure packaging in Debian more robust, nor worked towards the automation of Clojure unit tests in autopkgtests via autodep8.

Deliverables: Data vs. ConclusionsIf we are to talk about deliverables, we should start with the data. According to my original proposal, I was required to provide both new and updated Clojure packages accepted into Debian unstable , and updated Clojure packaging documentation. Additionally, if time permitted, I was to also provide new Clojure Lintian tags merged by the Lintian maintainers, and new Clojure autodep8 scripts merged by the autodep8 maintainers. Whereas I partially accomplished both required tasks, I didn t manage to start working on any of the optional deliverables.When looked in isolation, those numbers may look somewhat disappointing for some people. However, I can draw a much more positive conclusion. Why?Firstly, GSoC is supposed to be a learning experience. Moreover, as I said in my original proposal, I approach[ed] this project as a great opportunity to, finally, start my journey towards becoming a Debian Developer . In that sense, I consider the time invested into this project fruitful. In this way, I have learned the basics of packaging, how to interact with the Debian Clojure Team, and and already got my first packages accepted. Plus, I m looking forward to continuing to work with the Debian Clojure Team so I can attain the original scope of the project. Therefore, all things considered, I can consider this experience as a moderate success.

Lessons LearnedTechnically speaking, if I have learned one thing during these weeks, is that packaging, although easy to be underestimated, is by no means a trivial process. As any Debian Developer surely knows, the onboarding process can take some time. Plus, what is easy for some people, can be difficult for others. In my case, this was quite evident. Whereas I can speak several languages and learning new ones takes me little effort, grasping the basics of packaging took me (literally!) blood, sweat and tears. Indeed, the packaging learning curve was quite steep for me.That being said, I did learn a thing or two about packaging. So, if I managed to get here, I m sure many others can. It may take them more or less time than what it took me, but learning (at least the basics) of packaging is an achievable goal.Technical skill learning aside, I value very highly the non-technical skills I have so far improved during this project.For instance, I also learned that it can take some time to adapt to real-time online communication. Before this project, remote working meant either exchanging emails or getting into video or audio calls, with a low emphasis on chat-based interaction. Early on, I realized that the Debian Clojure Team interacts almost exclusively via, well... chat! And those two approaches are very different indeed. It has taken me some time to adjust, but I ve improved greatly in this aspect as well.Finally, improving my time management skills has been also a key part of this process. Whereas I had already been working remotely for over a year and a half already, my day job is not so interaction-dependent as this project (specially in the beginning). So it took me some time to adapt to this way of working, and to plan my workload so I could use those waiting moments to advance in other parts of the project. Still a lot to improve here, but improving nevertheless.

AcknowledgmentsI first have to thank upstream. More specifically, one of the upstream developers of the clojure-tools, Alex Miller. Everytime I needed specific information on what do specific parts of the Clojure CLI tools s codebase do, tools.deps.alpha do, he popped up a reply in a matter of hours. He has shown genuine interest in the success of is project during by carefully replying to my emails with detailed explanations of code intent and form, both in private and in public conversations. Thank you for all that, Alex!Let s move on to the Debian Clojure Team.First, Elana. I thank Elana for her initial openness when I first contacted her about this idea. It was *her* who initially contacted Louis-Philippe so he would become my mentor. I wouldn t have started to work on this project if it wasn t for her. Plus, she provided quite a piece of advise in more that one ocassion. So, thank you very much for all that, Elana!I also thank Utkarsh, my co-mentor, for his overall technical advise. And a special mention to his initial help to setup my Matrix client for OFTC chat. At that moment, it was *him* who took the time to help me in real time so I could solve that problem. So, thank you very much for all that, Utkarsh!I finally have to thank Louis-Philippe, my mentor, for his patient guidance during the whole process. His dedication and hard work has been *instrumental* for my progress. And a special mention for his tolerance with respect to some unforeseen personal circumstances I had to endure during the first weeks. When one is playing the newbie, times abound when one depends on other people s feedback. And Debian is made of volunteers, who have a life outside it. Every time I asked, Louis-Philippe was there. I wouldn t have gotten here if it wasn t for him. So, thank you *so* much for all that, Louis-Philippe!

Final WordsI would like to close this report with a reflection.I have been using Debian for many, many years now, and I had been looking for a way to contribute back to the project for some time already. I even did some work on a non-packaging Debian project. That being said, I never managed to deliver much, really.So, the very existence of outreach programs as this one is, in my humble opinion, crucial. In my case, the funding I got through the GSoC program was instrumental in being able to allocate time for this endeavor, and to finally get started contributing to Debian. Plus, it has had a very positive impact on me; in many ways, some of which I am only starting to discover now that the project is ending.When I put things into perspective, this project is very important for me. Actually, it is nothing but the first step within a long-term journey: becoming a Debian member. Hopefully, I would like to be able to apply for Debian membership by the end of this year.

Questions?Thank you very much for your time reading this! I look forward to hearing (or reading) your feedback. Please come and meet with the Debian Clojure Team Moreover, I will be in the Clojure BoF on DebConf2021. Moreover, do not hesitate to send me an email.

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Task Status
  • Required Tasks:
    • T1: Setting up a full Debian packaging development environment and learning the basics of Debian packaging.
      • Successfully completed the first part during the Application period.
      • Successfully completed the second part during the Coding periods.
    • T2: Identifying and packaging the missing dependencies to package clojure-cli.
      • Successfully completed as of the end of Coding II.
    • T3: Packaging clojure-cli.
      • 90% done as of the end of Coding II.
    • T4: Updating clojure to use clojure-cli.
      • To be completed after GSoC.
    • T5: Updating the Clojure Packaging Guide with information on how to use the new clojure-cli scripts.
      • Improved existing documentation. To be completed after GSoC.
  • Optional Tasks:
    • T6: Writing Lintian tags to make Clojure packaging in Debian more robust.
      • To be completed after GSoC.
    • T7: Working to automate Clojure unit testing in autopkgtests using autodep8.
      • To be completed after GSoC.
    • T8: Updating older Clojure packages not built using leiningen or clojure-cli.
      • To be completed after GSoC.

Packages
  1. Updated packages:
  2. New packages:
    • tools-gitlibs-clojure -- Clojure API for programatically accessing git libraries. ITP: #905543 in NEW.
    • ITP: tools-deps-alpha-clojure -- functional API for dependency management and classpath creation https://bugs.debian.org/891136 Needs to be uploaded by Louis-Philippe.
  3. In-Progress packages:
    • ITP: clojure-cli -- upstream CLI entrypoints for Clojure https://bugs.debian.org/891141 90% done - Package completed. I only need to finish implementing the transition from existing clojure scripts. To be completed after GSoC.
  4. Opened ITPs:
  5. Reported bugs

Other
  1. Interactions with upstream in the Debian-Clojure mailing list:
    • Many productive interactions with one of the upstream developers, Alex Miller (June, August).
  2. Wiki page:
    1. https://wiki.debian.org/Clojure/Goals/ClojureCLIToolsInDebian

13 August 2021

Leandro Doctors: Clojure CLI Tools in Debian - GSoC 2021 Partial Evaluation Report

NOTE: this blog post is based on my "Clojure CLI Tools in Debian" GSoC 2021 project Partial Evaluation Report.Hi, everybody!For those who don't know me, my name is Leandro Doctors (allentiak on IRC), and I'm the Debian Clojure Team's GSoC 2021 intern. My mentor is Louis-Philippe V ronneau[*] (pollo on IRC). My co-mentor is Utkarsh Gupta (utkarsh2102 on IRC). My 'no-mentor' :) is Elana Hashman (ehashman on IRC).In this message, I will summarize what I've been up to during the Coding I period (June 7th - July 16th).
TL;DR: my updated data-xml-clojure package was accepted[1] in experimental on Wednesday night :-)
[1] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1244465/accepted-data-xml-clojure-020alpha6-1-source-into-experimental/Now, let's tell the full story.During the first days of the "Coding I" phase, I did some research on the clj dependencies. And after the precious feedback from Louis-Philippe, Elana, Utkarsh, and Alex Miller (the upstream developer of clj, among many other libraries), I came up with the following packaging strategy.
  1. update org.clojure:data.xml (data-xml-clojure) to 0.2.0-beta6.
  2. package org.clojure:tools.gitlibs (tools-gitlibs-clojure).
  3. consider updating libjsch-agent-proxy-java, jgit, libtools-cli-clojure (all of them already in Debian).
  4. consider packaging com.cognitec.aws:* packages.
According to my original proposal, I should have completed all four tasks during Coding I. Looking back, the main lesson from these past weeks is a known classic: my timeline was too optimistic: I definitely underestimated the difficulty of the packaging process. Out of the four tasks, I only finished the first one.There were many challenges I had to overcome in order to update the library from version 0.0.8 to 0.2.0-alpha6:This what I did:First, I patched the source code so:Then, I completely overhauled the packaging code (this is, what goes inside debian/).All this improved the quality of the package.I also improved the Clojure Packaging Tutorial[2] to make the process easier to follow.[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Clojure/PackagingTutorialLooking back, it is almost as if I had started packaging the library from scratch...But, more that what I produced, I think the most important part of all this is what I learned during these weeks.As it was the first time I ever packaged anything in Debian, I had to learn the basics, bump by bump. (And, oh my, I surely did bump quite a few times!)[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Clojure/PackagingTutorial[3] https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild[4] https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/git-buildpackage/gbp.1.en.html[5] https://wiki.debian.org/UsingQuiltDefinitely, all this was worth it. After all, my updated data-xml-clojure package was accepted[1] in experimental on Wednesday :-)[1] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1244465/accepted-data-xml-clojure-020alpha6-1-source-into-experimental/Now that I've learned the basics of packaging bumped enough to get my package accepted, I'm hopeful I can ramp up and catch up with (at least most of) my original schedule during Coding II.tools-gitlibs-clojure, you're next :-)Thank you very much Louis-Philippe, Elana, and Utkarsh (plus a special mention to Alex) for your precious support during the last few weeks!

Leandro Doctors: Clojure CLI Tools in Debian - GSoC 2021 Partial Evaluation Report

NOTE: this blog post is based on my "Clojure CLI Tools in Debian" GSoC 2021 project Partial Evaluation Report.Hi, everybody!For those who don't know me, my name is Leandro Doctors (allentiak on IRC), and I'm the Debian Clojure Team's GSoC 2021 intern. My mentor is Louis-Philippe V ronneau[*] (pollo on IRC). My co-mentor is Utkarsh Gupta (utkarsh2102 on IRC). My 'no-mentor' :) is Elana Hashman (ehashman on IRC).In this message, I will summarize what I've been up to during the Coding I period (June 7th - July 16th).
TL;DR: my updated data-xml-clojure package was accepted[1] in experimental on Wednesday night :-)
[1] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1244465/accepted-data-xml-clojure-020alpha6-1-source-into-experimental/Now, let's tell the full story.During the first days of the "Coding I" phase, I did some research on the clj dependencies. And after the precious feedback from Louis-Philippe, Elana, Utkarsh, and Alex Miller (the upstream developer of clj, among many other libraries), I came up with the following packaging strategy.
  1. update org.clojure:data.xml (data-xml-clojure) to 0.2.0-beta6.
  2. package org.clojure:tools.gitlibs (tools-gitlibs-clojure).
  3. consider updating libjsch-agent-proxy-java, jgit, libtools-cli-clojure (all of them already in Debian).
  4. consider packaging com.cognitec.aws:* packages.
According to my original proposal, I should have completed all four tasks during Coding I. Looking back, the main lesson from these past weeks is a known classic: my timeline was too optimistic: I definitely underestimated the difficulty of the packaging process. Out of the four tasks, I only finished the first one.There were many challenges I had to overcome in order to update the library from version 0.0.8 to 0.2.0-alpha6:This what I did:First, I patched the source code so:Then, I completely overhauled the packaging code (this is, what goes inside debian/).All this improved the quality of the package.I also improved the Clojure Packaging Tutorial[2] to make the process easier to follow.[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Clojure/PackagingTutorialLooking back, it is almost as if I had started packaging the library from scratch...But, more that what I produced, I think the most important part of all this is what I learned during these weeks.As it was the first time I ever packaged anything in Debian, I had to learn the basics, bump by bump. (And, oh my, I surely did bump quite a few times!)[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Clojure/PackagingTutorial[3] https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild[4] https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/git-buildpackage/gbp.1.en.html[5] https://wiki.debian.org/UsingQuiltDefinitely, all this was worth it. After all, my updated data-xml-clojure package was accepted[1] in experimental on Wednesday :-)[1] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1244465/accepted-data-xml-clojure-020alpha6-1-source-into-experimental/Now that I've learned the basics of packaging bumped enough to get my package accepted, I'm hopeful I can ramp up and catch up with (at least most of) my original schedule during Coding II.tools-gitlibs-clojure, you're next :-)Thank you very much Louis-Philippe, Elana, and Utkarsh (plus a special mention to Alex) for your precious support during the last few weeks!

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.

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.

5 June 2021

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in May 2021

Here s my (twentieth) monthly update about the activities I ve done in the F/L/OSS world.

Debian
This was my 29th month of actively contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas 19! \o/ Interesting month, surprisingly. Lots of things happening and lots of moving parts; becoming the new normal , I believe. Anyhow, working on Ubuntu full-time has its own advantage and one of them is being able to work on Debian stuff! So whilst I couldn t upload a lot of packages because of the freeze, here s what I worked on:

Uploads and bug fixes:

Other $things:
  • Mentoring for newcomers and assisting people in BSP.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.

Ubuntu
This was my 4th month of actively contributing to Ubuntu. Now that I ve joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time, there s a bunch of things I do! \o/ This month, by all means, was dedicated mostly to PHP 8.0, transitioning from PHP 7.4 to 8.0. Naturally, it had so many moving parts and moments of utmost frustration, shared w/ Bryce. :D So even though I can t upload anything, I worked on the following stuff & asked for sponsorship.
But before, I d like to take a moment to stress how kind and awesome Gianfranco Costamagna, a.k.a. LocutusOfBorg is! He s been sponsoring a bunch of my things & helping with re-triggers, et al. Thanks a bunch, Gianfranco; beers on me whenever we meet!

Merges:

Uploads & Syncs:

MIRs:

Seed Operations:

Debian (E)LTS
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success. And Debian Extended LTS (ELTS) is its sister project, extending support to the Jessie release (+2 years after LTS support). This was my twentieth month as a Debian LTS and eleventh month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I was assigned 29.75 hours for LTS and 40.00 hours for ELTS and worked on the following things:

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

Other (E)LTS Work:
  • Front-desk duty from 24-05 until 30-05 for both LTS and ELTS.
  • Triaged rails, libimage-exiftool-perl, hivex, graphviz, glibc, libexosip2, impacket, node-ws, thunar, libgrss, nginx, postgresql-9.6, ffmpeg, composter, and curl.
  • Mark CVE-2019-9904/graphviz as ignored for stretch and jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-32029/postgresql-9.6 as not-affected for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2020-24020/ffmpeg as not-affected for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2020-22020/ffmpeg as postponed for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2020-22015/ffmpeg as ignored for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2020-21041/ffmpeg as postponed for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2021-33574/glibc as no-dsa for stretch & jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-31800/impacket as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2021-32611/libexosip2 as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2016-20011/libgrss as ignored for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2021-32640/node-ws as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2021-32563/thunar as no-dsa for stretch.
  • [LTS] Help test and review bind9 update for Emilio.
  • [LTS] Suggest and add DEP8 tests for bind9 for stretch.
  • [LTS] Sponsored upload of htmldoc to buster for Havard as a consequence of #988289.
  • [ELTS] Fix triage order for jetty and graphviz.
  • [ELTS] Raise issue upstream about cloud-init; mock tests instead.
  • [ELTS] Write to private ELTS list about triage ordering.
  • [ELTS] Review Emilio s new script and write back feedback, mentioning extra file created, et al.
  • [ELTS/LTS] Raise upgrade problems from LTS -> LTS+1 to the list. Thread here.
    • Further help review and raise problems that could occur, et al.
  • [LTS] Help explain path forward for firmware-nonfree update to Ola. Thread here.
  • [ELTS] Revert entries of TEMP-0000000-16B7E7 and TEMP-0000000-1C4729; CVEs assigned & fix ELTS tracker build.
  • Auto EOL ed linux, libgrss, node-ws, and inspircd for jessie.
  • Attended monthly Debian LTS meeting, which didn t happen, heh.
  • Answered questions (& discussions) on IRC (#debian-lts and #debian-elts).
  • General and other discussions on LTS private and public mailing list.
Until next time.
:wq for today.

28 May 2021

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

A Debian LTS logo
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.

15 May 2021

Utkarsh Gupta: Hello, Canonical! o/

Today marks the 90th day of me joining Canonical to work on Ubuntu full-time! So since it s been a while already, this blog post is long due. :)

The News
I joined Canonical, this February, to work on Ubuntu full-time! \o/
Those who know, they know that this is really very exciting for me because Canonical has been a dream company for me, for real (more about this below!). And hey, this is my first job, ever, so all the more reason to be psyched about, isn t it? ^_^ P.S. Keep reading and we ll meet my squad really sooon!

The Story Being an undergrad student (batch 2017-2021), I ve been slightly worried during my last two semesters, naturally, thinking about how s it all gonna pan out and what will I be doing, et al, because I ve been seeing all my friends and batchmates getting placed in companies or going for masters or at least having some sort of plans for their future and I, on the other hand, was hopelessly clueless. :D Well, to be fair, I did Google Summer of Code twice, in 2019 and 2020, became a Debian Developer in 2019, been a part of GCI and Outreachy, contributed to over dozens of open-source projects, et al, et al. So I wasn t all completely hopeless but for sure was completely clueless , heh. And for full disclosure, I was only slightly panicking because firstly, I did get placed in several companies and secondly, I didn t really need a job immediately since I was already getting paid to work on Debian stuff by Freexian, which was good enough. :)
(and honestly, Freexian has my whole heart! - more on that later sometime.) But that s not the point. I was still confused and worried and my mom & dad, more so than anyone. Ugh. We were all figuring out and she asked me places that I was interested to work in. And whilst I wasn t clear about things I wanted to do (and still am!) but I was (very) clear about this and so I told her about Canonical and also did tell her that it s a bit too ambitious for me to think about it now so I ll probably apply after some experience or something. and as they say, the world works in mysterious ways and well, it did for me! So back during the Ruby sprints (Feb 20), Kanashiro, the guy ( ), mentioned that his team was hiring and has a vacant position but I won t be eligible since I was still in my junior year. It was since then I ve been actively praying for Cronus, the god of time, to wave his magic wand and align it in such a way that the next opening should be somewhere near my graduation. And guess what? IT HAPPENED! 9 months later, in November 20, Kanashiro told me his team is hiring yet again and that I could apply this time! Without much (since there was some ) delay, I applied and started asking all sorts of questions to Kanashiro. No words are enough for him, he literally helped me throughout the process; from referring me to answering all sorts of doubts I had! And roughly after 2 months of interviewing, et al, my ambitious dream did come true and I finalyyyy signed my contract! \o/
(the interview process and what went on during those 10 weeks is a story for later ;))

The Server Team! \o This position, which I didn t mention earlier, was for the Server Team which is a team of 15 people, working to make Ubuntu server the best! And as I tweeted sometime back, the team is absolutely lovely, super kind, and consists of the best of teammates one could possibly ask for! Here s a quick sneak peek into our weekly team meeting. Thanks to Rafael for taking such a lovely picture. And yes, the cat Luna is a part of our squad! And oh, did I mention that we re completely remote and distributed?
FUN FACT: Our team covers all the TZs, that is, at any point of time (during weekdays), you ll find someone or the other from the team around! \o/ Anyway, our squad, managed by Rick is divided into two halves: Squeaky Wheels and Table Flip. Cool names, right?
Squeaky Wheels does the distro side of stuff and consists of Christian, Andreas, Rafael, Robie, Bryce, Sergio, Kanashiro, Athos, and now myself as well! And OTOH, Table Flip consists of Dan, Chad, Paride, Lucas, James, and Grant. Even though I interact w/ Squeaky Wheels more (basically daily), each of my teammates is absolutely lovely and equally awesome! Whilst I ll talk more about things here in the upcoming months, this is it for now! If there s anything, in particular, you d like to know more about, let me know! And lastly, here s us vibing our way through, making Ubuntu server better, cause that s how we roll!
Until next time.
:wq for today.

1 May 2021

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in April 2021

Here s my (nineteenth) monthly update about the activities I ve done in the F/L/OSS world.

Debian
This was my 28th month of actively contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas 19! \o/ Crazy month, as always. Lots of things happening and lots of moving parts.
Now that I am working on Ubuntu-full time, I barely get much time to do any extra stuff. Then the massive COVID wave that has plunged India had made this month further crazier. More on that later, maybe. IDK. Anyway, I did some Debian stuff, thanks to Salzburg BSP (more down below). I worked on the following stuff:

Uploads and bug fixes:

Other $things:
  • Mentoring for newcomers and assisting people in BSP.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.

Salzburg BSP 2021 This was my first virtual BSP and the first BSP in Salzburg and it was absolutely amazing!
Many kudos to Bernd Zeimetz for organizing it so smoothly and wonderfully, for real! \o/ We had a bunch of amazing sessions, besides hacking, of course, like:
  • yoga,
  • sports,
  • games, and
  • datacenter tour -> which was super!
We also had lots of things happening at #debian-bsp-2021-szg and did a lot of work.
Whilst everything we did is available on the pad, I work on the following things:
  • [deki/utkarsh]: CVE-2021-28421/fluidsynth (sid); cf: #987168/#987471.
  • [deki/utkarsh]: CVE-2021-28421/fluidsynth (buster); cf: #987168/#987494.
  • [utkarsh]: 18 CVEs for jackson-databind (buster); cf: #987489.
  • [utkarsh]: fix for ruby-librarian/#987113 (unblock request: #987501).
  • [utkarsh]: 17 CVEs for jackson-databind (stretch); LTS upload.
  • [utkarsh]: CVE-2020-12460/opendmarc (stretch); LTS upload.
  • [utkarsh]: CVE-2020-12460/opendmarc (buster); cf: #987531.
  • [deki/utkarsh]: libpam-alreadyloggedin, broken autopkgtest; #958224
  • [deki/utkarsh]: libpam-alreadyloggedin, installed in wrong directory; #986247
  • [deki/utkarsh]: libpam-alreadyloggedin, FTCBFS; #969122
  • [donfede/utkarsh] 10 CVEs for salt (buster)
  • [donfede/utkarsh] 10 CVEs for salt (bullseye)
And finally, we clicked a picture! \o/

Debian (E)LTS
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success. And Debian Extended LTS (ELTS) is its sister project, extending support to the Jessie release (+2 years after LTS support). This was my nineteenth month as a Debian LTS and tenth month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I was assigned 60.00 hours for LTS and 60.00 hours for ELTS and worked on the following things:

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

Other (E)LTS Work:
  • Front-desk duty from 29-03 until 04-04 and then from 26-04 until 02-05 for both LTS and ELTS.
  • Triaged spamassassin, codemirror-js, jackson-databind, wordpress, gstreamer, underscore, python-bleach, plinth, libpano13, salt, dojo, ruby2.7, firefox-esr, clamav, composter, courier-authlib, opendmarc, openexr, libimage-exiftool-perl, tomcat7, libjs-handlebars, libnet-netmask-perl, network-manager, and curl.
  • Mark CVE-2021-20297/network-manager as not-affected for jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-22890/curl as not-affected for jessie and stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2020-7760/codemirror-js as not-affected for jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-25122/tomcat8 as not-affected for jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-XXXX/plinth as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2021-29424/libnet-netmask-perl as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Mark CVE-2021-28374/courier-authlib as fixed in 0.58-3.1 for jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-1252/clamav as not-affected for jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-1404/clamav as not-affected for jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2020-4051/dojo as no-dsa for jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-29447/wordpress as not-affected for jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-29450/wordpress as not-affected for jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2019-20920/libjs-handlebars as ignored for stretch and jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-23369/libjs-handlebars as ignored for stretch and jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2020-4051/dojo as fixed in 1.15.4+dfsg1-1 for sid and bullseye.
  • Mark CVE-2021-28965/ruby2.7 fixed in 2.7.3-1 for sid.
  • Mark CVE-2020-12272/opendmarc as postponed for jessie.
  • Mark CVE-2021-20296, CVE-2021-3475, CVE-2021-3476, CVE-2021-3477, CVE-2021-3478, and CVE-2021-3479, affecting openexr, as no-dsa for jessie and stretch.
  • Suggest proposed fixes for CVE-2021-22876/curl on LTS public list.
  • Publish the missing DLA update for the website on behalf of the community contribution. Thread here.
  • Help suggest and unblock work if FD is missing or something. Thread here.
  • Suggest marking CVE-2021-23369/ node,libjs -handlebars as no-dsa/ignored for all suites. Thread here.
  • Help unblock Anton with the failed python2.7 build on i386 by coordinating with the sec team. Thread here.
  • Private ELTS-related discussion on the ELTS list (+ w/ Raphael).
  • Auto EOL ed webkit2gtk, python-bleach, tika, linux, ircii, spice-vdagent, libspring-security-2.0-java, file-roller, rustc, python-django-registration, gsoap, thunderbird, mosquitto, ruby-sidekiq, gnuchess, libpodofo, unbound, drupal7, 389-ds-base, and scrollz for jessie.
  • Answered questions (& discussions) on IRC (#debian-lts and #debian-elts).
  • General and other discussions on LTS private and public mailing list.
Until next time.
:wq for today.

30 April 2021

Raphaël Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, March 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 March, we put aside 3225 EUR to fund Debian projects but sadly nobody picked up anything, so this one of the many reasons Raphael posted as series of blog posts titled Challenging times for Freexian , posted in 4 parts on the last two days of March and the first two of April. [Part one, two, three and four] So we re still 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 March, 11 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Evolution of the situation In March we released 28 DLAs and held our second LTS team meeting for 2021 on IRC, with the next public IRC meeting coming up at the end of May. At that meeting Holger announced that after 2.5 years he wanted to step back from his role helping Rapha l in coordinating/managing the LTS team. We would like to thank Holger for his continuous work on Debian LTS (which goes back to 2014) and are happy to report that we already found a successor which we will introduce in the upcoming April report from Freexian. Finally, we would like to remark once again that we are constantly looking for new contributors. For a last time, please contact Holger if you are interested! The security tracker currently lists 42 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 28 packages needing an update. We are also pleased to report that we got 4 new sponsors over the last 2 months : thanks to sipgate GmbH, OVH US LLC, Tilburg University and Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble ! Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

1 April 2021

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in March 2021

Here s my (eighteenth) monthly update about the activities I ve done in the F/L/OSS world.

Debian
This was my 27th month of active contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas 19! \o/ This month was a bit exhausting; lots of moving parts. With the financial year ending, it was even more crazy, with me running around to banks, CA, et al.
Anyway, with now working on Ubuntu full-time, I did little of Debian this month. Here are the following things I worked on:

Uploads and bug fixes:

Other $things:
  • Attended the Debian LTS team meeting.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.

Debian (E)LTS
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success. And Debian Extended LTS (ELTS) is its sister project, extending support to the Jessie release (+2 years after LTS support). This was my eighteenth month as a Debian LTS and ninth month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I was assigned 60.00 hours for LTS and 39.00 hours for ELTS and worked on the following things:

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

Other (E)LTS Work:
  • Front-desk duty from 01-03 until 07-03 for ELTS and then from 29-03 until 04-04 for both LTS and ELTS.
  • Triaged wpa, python-aiohttp, spip, wpa, qemu, tomcat7, tomcat8, grub2, mupdf, openssh, tiff, spice, pillow, xmlgraphics-commons, batik, libupnp, ca-certificates, salt, squid3, shibboleth-sp2, courier-authlib, cloud-init, spamassassin, openssl, libcaca, and openjpeg2.
  • Marked CVE-2021-21330/python-aiohttp as not-affected for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2021-20233, CVE-2021-20225, CVE-2020-27779, CVE-2020-27778, CVE-2020-27749, CVE-2020-27748, CVE-2020-25647, CVE-2020-25632, CVE-2020-25631, and CVE-2020-14372, affecting grub2, as ignored for stretch and jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-27842/openjpeg2 as no-dsa for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-27843/openjpeg2 as no-dsa for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2021-28041/openssh as not-affect for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-3552 3,4 /tiff as no-dsa for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2021-20201/spice as no-dsa for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-11988/xmlgraphics-commons as postponed for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-11987/batik as postponed for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-12695/libupnp as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2021-25122/tomcat7 as not-affected for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2021-25329/tomcat7 as ignored for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2021-28116/squid3 as postponed for stretch and jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2021-3449/openssl as not-affected for stretch.
  • Document extra notes for grub2 for LTS and co-ordinate with the sec-team.
  • Document extra notes for pillow about piled-up issues in jessie.
  • Issued DLA-2593-1 for ca-certificates on Microsoft s request; co-ordinating w/ them.
  • Co-ordinating w/ maintainer of courier-authlib for stretch and jessie update.
  • Fixing build failures of ELTS security tracker and re-ordering entries in data/CVE-EXTENDED-LTS/list file.
  • Answer queries of dupondje and mikap about openssl on IRC; and it being not-affected for stretch.
  • Help review the status of CVE-2021-3121/golang-github-gogo-protobuf-dev for Ola.
  • Co-ordinating w/ Noah for cloud-init and setuptools.
  • Auto EOL ed mongodb, linux, guacamole-client, node-xmlhttprequest, newlib, neutron, privoxy, glpi, and zabbix for jessie.
  • Attended monthly meeting for Debian LTS.
  • Answered questions (& discussions) on IRC (#debian-lts and #debian-elts).
  • General and other discussions on LTS private and public mailing list.
Until next time.
:wq for today.

22 March 2021

Raphaël Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, February 2020

A Debian LTS logo
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding In February, we put aside 5475 EUR to fund Debian projects. The first project from this initiative was finished and thus Carles Pina was able to issue the first invoice! We are looking forward to receive more projects from various Debian teams and contributors. Learn more about the rationale behind this initiative in this article. Debian LTS contributors In February, 12 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Evolution of the situation In February we released 28 DLAs (including one regression update) and we held an internal team meeting using video chat.
Finally, as every month 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 46 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 34 packages needing an update. Thanks to our sponsors Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.

1 March 2021

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in February 2021

Here s my (seventeenth) monthly update about the activities I ve done in the F/L/OSS world.

Debian
This was my 26th month of active contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas 19! \o/ This month was a nice mix of amusement, excitement, nervousness, and craziness. More on it below.
Anyway, whilst I was super-insanely busy this month, I still did some Debian stuff here and there. Here are the following things I worked on:

Uploads and bug fixes:

Other $things:
  • Attended the Debian LTS team meeting.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.
  • Sponsored ruby-rspec-stubbed-env for C dric Boutillier, heh :P

Interesting Bits!
  • Last month, I wrote:
    Besides, there s something more that is in the pipelines. Can t talk about it now, shh. But hopefully very sooooooon!
    And now I can talk about it! So here it is..
    I ve joined Canonical as a SDE to work on Ubuntu, full time!!! \o/
    Fully remote + dream job/work + most of the work is in the open-source domain + the beessstttt co-workers one could ever ask for! It s been an amazing time so far and I ll talk more about it later this month.
    But for now, here s our team monitor selfie (with Rick missing because of his secret plan ! )

    We ll soon e-meet them in a more detailed manner in the next blog post, that is, later this month!
  • In another exciting news, I got 2 more CVEs assigned!!! \o/
    No, it is not something that I found, it was discovered by Tavis Ormandy. I just assigned them a CVE ID, CVE-2021-26937 for screen and CVE-2021-27135 for xterm.
    This is my 2nd and 3rd, so I am (still) very excited about this! ^_^

Debian (E)LTS
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success. And Debian Extended LTS (ELTS) is its sister project, extending support to the Jessie release (+2 years after LTS support). This was my sixteenth month as a Debian LTS and seventh month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I was assigned 60.00 hours for LTS and 60.00 hours for ELTS and worked on the following things:
(however, I had overworked for 9 hours for both, LTS and ELTS, last month so I had to work for 51 hours for both this month!)

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

Other (E)LTS Work:
  • Front-desk duty from 22-02 until 28-02 for both LTS and ELTS.
  • Triaged privoxy, dnsmasq, openldap, libzstd, ruby-mechanize, firefox-esr, thunderbird, screen, xterm, glibc, isync, rails, openscad, imagemagick, avahi, gdk-pixbuf, python-reportlab, python-aiohttp, spip, gdisk, and jasper.
  • Marked CVE-2021-20214/privoxy as not-affected for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2021-27645/glibc as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2021-20247/isync as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2020-28599/openscad as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Markec CVE-2021-2024 1,4-6 /imagemagick as ignored for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2021-26720/avahi as postponed for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2021-20240/gdk-pixbuf as not-affected for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2021-27645/glibc as no-dsa for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-28463/python-reportlab as postponed for jessie.
  • Document extra CVEs as notes for imagemagick in jessie.
  • Auto EOL ed libupnp, webkit2gtk, libraw, jackson-dataformat-cbor, node-lodash, linux, asterisk, yara, python-django, botan1.10, smarty3, xen, u-boot, steghide, mumble, gsoap, ruby-twitter-stream, isync, nodejs, openscad, mupdf, mongo-java-driver, firefox-esr, thunderbird, and salt for jessie.
  • Sponsored upload for php-horde-text-filter for Sylvain and published its DLA announcement.
  • Got CVE-2021-26937 for screen. Yay, this is the 2nd one I got assigned! \o/
  • Got CVE-2021-27135 for xterm. Woah, this is the 3rd one, am I on a roll or what? \o/
  • Co-ordinated with package maintainer (and upstream) of ca-certificates for backporting patch to stretch.
  • Co-ordinated with package maintainer of ca-certificates for backporting patch to stretch.
  • Co-ordinated with package maintainer of screen for fixing vulnerabilites in stretch.
  • Attended monthly meeting for Debian LTS.
  • Answered questions (& discussions) on IRC (#debian-lts and #debian-elts).
  • Cross-checked LTS survey results, emailed Ola about the problems found.
  • General and other discussions on LTS private and public mailing list.
Until next time.
:wq for today.

15 February 2021

Raphaël Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, January 2020

A Debian LTS logo Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering. Debian project funding In January, we put aside 2175 EUR to fund Debian projects. As part of this Carles Pina i Estany started to work on better no-dsa support for the PTS which recently resulted in two merge requests which will hopefully be deployed soon. 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 January, 13 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: Evolution of the situation In January we released 28 DLAs and held our first LTS team meeting for 2021 on IRC, with the next public IRC meeting coming up at the end of March. During that meeting Utkarsh shared that after he rolled out the python-certbot update (on December 8th 2020) the maintainer told him: I just checked with Let s Encrypt, and the stats show that you just saved 142,500 people from having their certificates start failing next month. I didn t know LTS was still that used!

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1 February 2021

Utkarsh Gupta: FOSS Activites in January 2021

Here s my (sixteenth) monthly update about the activities I ve done in the F/L/OSS world.

Debian
This was my 25th month of contributing to Debian. I became a DM in late March 2019 and a DD on Christmas 19! \o/ This month was bat-shit crazy. Why? We ll come to it later, probably 15th of this month?
Anyway, besides being crazy, hectic, adventerous, and the first of 2021, this month I was super-insanely busy. With what? Hm, more about this later this month! ^_^ However, I still did some Debian stuff here and there. Here are the following things I worked on:

Uploads and bug fixes:

Other $things:
  • Attended the Debian Ruby team meeting.
  • Mentoring for newcomers.
  • Moderation of -project mailing list.
  • Sponsored golang-github-gorilla-css for Fedrico.

Debian (E)LTS
Debian Long Term Support (LTS) is a project to extend the lifetime of all Debian stable releases to (at least) 5 years. Debian LTS is not handled by the Debian security team, but by a separate group of volunteers and companies interested in making it a success. And Debian Extended LTS (ELTS) is its sister project, extending support to the Jessie release (+2 years after LTS support). This was my sixteenth month as a Debian LTS and seventh month as a Debian ELTS paid contributor.
I was assigned 26.00 hours for LTS and 36.75 hours for ELTS and worked on the following things:
(however, I worked extra for 9 hours for LTS and 9 hours for ELTS this month, which I intend to balance from the next month!)

LTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

ELTS CVE Fixes and Announcements:

Other (E)LTS Work:
  • Front-desk duty from 28-12 until 03-01 and from 25-01 until 31-01 for both LTS and ELTS.
  • Triaged dropbear, gst-plugins-bad1.0, phpmyadmin, qemu, firefox-esr, thunderbird, openldap, libdatetime-timezone-perl, tzdata, jasper, ckeditor, liblivemedia, wavpack, and ruby-redcarpet.
  • Marked CVE-2019-12953/dropbear as postponed for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2019-12953/dropbear as postponed for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2018-19841/wavpack as not-affected for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2019-1010315/wavpack as not-affected for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2019-1010317/wavpack as not-affected for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2021-21252/phpmyadmin as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2021-20196/qemu as postponed for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2021-21252/phpmyadmin as no-dsa for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2021-20196/qemu as postponed for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-11947/qemu as postponed for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2021-3326/glibc as no-dsa for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2021-3326/glibc as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2020-35517/qemu as not-affected instead of postponed for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2021-2627 1,2 /ckeditor as postponed for jessie.
  • Marked CVE-2020-24027/liblivemedia as no-dsa for stretch.
  • Marked CVE-2021-2627 1,2 /ckeditor as postponed for stretch.
  • Auto EOL ed csync2, firefox-esr, linux, thunderbird, collabtive, activemq, and xen for jessie.
  • Got my first ever CVE assigned - CVE-2021-3181 for mutt. Weeeehooooo! \o/
  • Attended the monthly LTS meeting. Logs here.
  • General discussion on LTS private and public mailing list.

Interesting Bits!
  • This January, on 23rd and 24th, we had Mini DebConf India 2021 online.
    I had a talk as well, titled, Why Point Releases are important and how you can help prepare them?". It was a fun and a very short talk, where I just list out the reasons and ways to help in the preparation of point releases . I did some experimentation with this talk, figuring out what works for the audience and what doesn t and where can I improve for the next time I talk about this topic! \o/
    You can listen to the talk here and let me know if you have any feedback! Anyway, the conference lasted for 2 days and I also did some volunteering (talk director, talk miester) in Hindi and English, both! It was all so fun and new. Anyway, here s the picture we took:
  • In another exciting news, I got my first CVE assigned!!! \o/
    No, it is not something that I found, it was discovered by Tavis Ormandy. I just assigned this a CVE ID, CVE-2021-3181.
    This is my first, so I am very excited about this! ^_^
  • Besides, there s something more that is in the pipelines. Can t talk about it now, shh. But hopefully very sooooooon!

Other $things! \o/ This month was tiresome, with most of the time being spent on the Debian stuff, I did very little work outside it, really. The issues and patches that I sent are:
  • Issue #700 for redcarpet, asking for a reproducer for CVE-2020-26298 and some additional patch related queries.
  • Issue #7 for in-parallel, asking them to not use relative paths for tests.
  • Issue #8 for in-parallel, reporting a test failure for the library.
  • Issue #2 for rake-ant, asking them to bump their dependencies to a newer version.
  • PR #3 for rake-ant, bumping the dependencies to a newer version, fixing the above issue, heh.
  • Issue #4 for rake-ant, requesting to drop git from their gemspec.
  • PR #5 for rake-ant, dropping git from gemspec, fixing the above issue, heh.
  • Issue #95 for WavPack, asking for a review of past security vulnerabilites wrt v4.70.0.
  • Reviewed PR #128 for ruby-openid, addressing the past regression with CVE fix merge.
  • Reviewed PR #63 for cocoapods-acknowledgements, updating redcarpet to v3.5.1, as a safety measure due to recently discovered vulnerability.
  • Issue #1331 for bottle, asking for relevant commits for CVE-2020-28473 and clarifying other things.
  • Issue #5 for em-redis, reporting test failures on IPv6-only build machines.
  • Issue #939 for eventmachine, reporting test failures for em-redis on IPv6-only build machines.
Until next time.
:wq for today.

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