Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• gt: use standard systemd usb-gadget.target
• SWH docs: add FAQ item
• reportbug: allow overriding auto-applied tags
• Debian BTS usertags: fix up Ubuntu, porter, 64-bit time_t usertags
• Debian wiki pages: AutoGeneratedFiles (1 2), DebianDay (2024), Exploits, GSoC, gsoc, Hardware/Wanted, LTS/Development, Ports/riscv64, Sprints (2024/DebianMed), Statistics, Year

Issues

• Features in SWH (1 2), swh-web (1 2 3), swh-lister
• Missed repos in swh-lister (1 2)
• Warnings in nagstamon, knockpy, nyx, rdflib, adal

Administration

• Debian wiki: approve accounts

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The SWH work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• check-all-the-things: update dep
• Debian reportbug: allow defaults for multi-select menus
• Debian release website: link arch policy from arch qualification
• Debian BTS usertags: fix porter, reproducible, release tags
• Debian wiki pages: attachement:root-system-build.sh, attachement:root-system-changes.sh, DebianScience/ROOT, Games/GameDataPackager, PortsDocs/New

Issues

• Crashes in ognibuild
• Warnings in python3-binwalk, python3-extruct, offpunk
• Conversion missed in colorized-logs
• Features in reportbug, swh-web
• Conffile removal needed in fwupd
• Expired cert in ca-certificates

Review

• Spam: reported 1 Debian bug report
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month

Administration

• Debian BTS: unarchive/reopen/triage bugs for reintroduced packages: ovito, tahoe-lafs, tpm2-tss-engine
• Debian wiki: produce HTML dump for a user, unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The SWH work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• OpenStreetMap: fixed a bunch of broken website URLs
• Debian pass-otp: oathtool safety
• reportbug: fix crash
• Debian BTS usertags: fix Python, Ruby, QA, porter, archive, release tags
• Debian wiki pages: TransitionUploadHook

Issues

• Warnings in python3-qgis, androguard, qbrz

Review

• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved arch-test vasttrafik-cli
  • rejected freecell-solver-bin (non-GUI package), nginx-full (photo)

Administration

• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors All work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• swh-web: direct replies better, strip whitespace
• Debian screenshots:
  • deleted freecell-solver-bin (not a graphical program)
• Debian BTS usertags: fix ports/archive usertags
• Debian wiki pages: DebianAlternatives, LoongArch, Mobian/Devices, Software that can't be packaged, Statistics, Teams/Cinnamon
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources

Issues

• Feature in UDD
• Conffile removal needed in neomutt
• dpkg vendor config needed in Armbian
• New SWH listers needed for depp & depp (different projects)

Review

• Debian packages: sponsored harmony
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved fonts-arphic-bkai00mp fonts-dejavu fonts-freefont-ttf fonts-liberation-sans-narrow fonts-mathjax fonts-noto-cjk fonts-noto-mono fonts-quicksand fonts-urw-base35 freecol lincity-ng qnetload
  • rejected librte-bbdev0.200 (library with no UI), freecell-solver-bin (not a graphical program)

Administration

• Debian wiki: approve accounts

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The SWH work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• tracer: mention needrestart
• duck: add inactive project indicator
• Debian wiki pages: AutoGeneratedFiles, CopyrightReviewTools, CornerCase, CrossGrading, DeveloperNews, Hardware/Wanted, InstallingDebianOn/SiFive/HiFiveUnmatched
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
• vcs-home wiki: add more dotfile repos/tools

Issues

• Files in wrong dir in git-cola
• Conffile removal needed in dkms
• New SWH listers needed for HGKeeper, Smithy, humungus, git-arr, gitile, gotweb, ABF, Bonobo Git Server, darcsden

Review

• Debian packages: sponsored purple-discord x2
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved c-evo-dh-gtk2 fim fish foliate mpc123 nfoview qpwgraph scite viewnior
  • rejected hw-probe (photos), wine64 (desktop logo), phasex (artwork), qpwgraph (about dialog), fim/fish (help output), python-lunch (full desktop), ruby-full (website), ausweisapp2 (PII), pngtools (movie poster), x11vnc (web page,) mount (systemd), blastem (photo), ca-certificates (tiny, Windows)

Administration

• Debian servers: extract user data from recent wiki backups
• Debian wiki: fix broken user account, approve accounts

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC.

Sponsors The SWH work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• sqliteodbc: fix crash (also sent upstream privately)
• swh-docs: add FAQs for Add Forge Now (1 2 3)
• swh-web: improve forge contact mail (1 2)
• devscripts: improve chdist, build-rdeps
• duck: add indicator
• userdir-ldap: TLS
• Debian BTS usertags: fixed usertags for Java, archive admins, ports
• Debian QA services: link cruft report
• Debian wiki pages: AutoGeneratedFiles, DebianKernel/UserspaceTools, Derivatives/Census/Zevenet, Firmware/Open, GPS, IRC, JelmerVernooij, Ports/loong64 (1 2), SSH, Teams (Debbugs/ArchitectureTags, Publicity/ReleasePointAnnouncements (1 2)), thermald
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
• notmuch wiki pages: frontends (1 2)

Issues

• Features in lintian, util-linux
• Enable feature in xwayland
• Missing transitional package in golang-ginkgo
• Broken symlinks in dateutils, libimage-magick-perl
• Conffile removal needed in samba-common, ddcontrol
• Python 3 porting needed for Debian carnivore
• Missing git tags in DBD-ODBC
• CPAN release needed for DBD-ODBC
• SWH listers needed for hgweb, OSDN, Gitee, GitHub Enterprise, klaus, Phorge, Phabricator, Assembla
• SWH listing problems for SourceForge (1 2)

Review

• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved budgie-desktop cadabra2 education-desktop-cinnamon education-desktop-kde extundelete lfm yt-dlp
  • rejected freecell-solver-bin (Windows), weboob-qt (chess), task-marathi (random website), stockfish/edict (mobile), libnss3 (random logo), x11vnc (selfie), x11vnc (movie poster), sudoku-solver (Android), fonts-noto-color-emoji (too small)

Administration

• Debian IRC: rescue obsolete/unused #debian-wiki channel
• Debian servers: rescue data from an old DebConf server
• Debian wiki: approve accounts

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The SWH, golang-ginkgo, DBD-ODBC, sqliteodbc work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• JAA little-things: add ArchiveBot monitor script, fix up Bing scraping script (both sent on IRC)
• forum-dl: cleanup
• fdupes: cleanups
• debcargo/debcargo-conf: minimise package long description boilerplate (1 2)
• pypi2deb: fix crash
• Debian QA services: update architecture hardcoding
• Debian PTS: update to UDD lintian service, disable updating dead/broken data
• Debian wiki: fix log rotation
• Debian BTS usertags: fix architecture/release/debhelper/privacy usertags
• Debian wiki pages: ArchitectureVariants, DavidWeinehall, DebConf (21/Bids/Sweden, 22/Organizers, 25/Bids), DebianDay/2023/T rkiye/ zmir, DebianInstaller (ReleaseProcess, TrackingStatus), DebianNetDomains, Derivatives/Census/Ubuntu, ExternalEntities, FastTrack, Firmware/Updates, how-can-i-help (Ideas), ImportantDirectories, InstallingDebianOn/Olimex/Teres-I, LoongArch, LXD, M68k/QemuSystemM68k, MiniDebConf (1 2), NvidiaGraphicsDrivers, PaulWise/InterestingSoftware, Ports (loong64, riscv64), PortTemplate, ppviewerFonts, Services/lintian.debian.org, SourcesList, StaticLinking, Statistics (1 2), Teams (DebConf/Video/FunnyMoments, Publicity/ReleasePointAnnouncements, Webmaster/PointReleaseWorkflow), ThomasChung, uk/Hardware/Database, UsefulImprovements, YutakaNiibe
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources

Issues

• Bad data in UDD bugs script
• Conffile removal needed in smart-notifier, scite
• Duplicate menu items in evolution
• Incorrect unsigned mail handling in evolution
• Missing dependency in libcairo2-dev
• Incorrect redirects in gnu.org, ArchiveBot
• TMP issue in mmdebstrap
• Formatting issue in iproute2
• False positive in anorack
• Broken manual page in jbig2
• SWH listers needed for git9, Kallithea

Review

• Spam: reported 2 Debian bug reports
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved fzf lame lsd termshark vifm
  • rejected orthanc (private data), gpr/orthanc (Windows), qrencode (random QR codes), weboob-qt (chess website)

Administration

• Debian IRC: fix #debian-pkg-security topic/metadata
• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

• Initiate discussion about relaxing Debian package description rules
• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The SWH work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• libpst: cleanups
• duck: 01.org is obsolete
• lintian: 01.org is obsolete
• reportbug: usertags pseudo-headers are now repeatable
• Debian BTS usertags: added porter usertags, fixed glibc/DSA/pcre/porter usertags
• Debian package uploads: git-imerge (1 2)
• Debian wiki pages: BisectDebian, DebianKernel/UserspaceTools, DebianMaintainer, DebianTesting, PortsDocs/New (1 2), PortTemplate, PressCoverage
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources (1 2)

Debugging

• Investigated test failures after Debian pybuild distutils update

Issues

• Crashes in fdupes
• Missing dep in gnome-calculator
• Warnings in dbus-broker
• Incorrect unsigned mail handling in evolution
• Features in needrestart, evolution
• Deprecated interface use in git-imerge
• Broken symlink in libgnutls28-dev
• Obsolete URL in thermald
• Conffile removal in bluez, iio-sensor-proxy

Review

• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month

Administration

• Debian IRC: rescue an alternate channel and make it harder to join accidentally
• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts, update emails for accounts

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The libpst work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• libpst: cleanups
• pytest-rerunfailures: cleanups
• git-mediate: cleanups (1 2 3 4 5)
• Debian buildd website: suggest reportbug, getbuildlog
• Debian wiki: drop page view events on log rotation
• Debian BTS usertags: fix cmake/pytest/release/archive/reproducible/ports usertags
• Debian package uploads: pytest-rerunfailures, sptag
• Debian wiki pages: BisectDebian, DebianEdu/Status/Bullseye, DebianJessie, DebianKernel/UserspaceTools, DebianUnstable, DebianWheezy, DebianWiki/EditorGuide (1 2), FunambolInstallation, InstructionSelection, ManualPage, PortsDocs/New, PortTemplate, ReleaseGoals/SystemdAnalyzeSecurity, ReleasePartyBookworm/Belgium/Leuven, StefanKropp/SHIFT6mq, tasksel, Wajig
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources

Issues

• Features in lintian, scancode-licencedb
• AppArmor denial in geoclue
• Errors from Debian DOSE cron job
• Mishandling of filenames in git-mediate
• Packaging needed for git-mediate

Debugging

• nmap/udptunnel test failure

Review

• Spam: reported 26 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved cherrytree convert-pgn dzen2 fcitx5-unikey kdevelop-pg-qt konq-plugins sass-stylesheets-gutenberg sass-stylesheets-purecss sddm-theme-breeze sddm-theme-elarun sddm-theme-maldives sddm-theme-maui sddm-theme-maya
  • rejected orthanc (private data), chromium-browser (Windows), dconf-gsettings-backend (cartoon), browser-plugin-vlc/weboob-qt (photo), stockfish (tablet app), dbmix (website), convert-pgn/sudoku-solver (mobile app)

Administration

• Debian IRC: rescue empty Debian IRC channel
• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The libpst, nmap, sptag, pytest-rerunfailures work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• thermal_daemon: fix thermal_monitor build, make power group configurable, cleanups
• trurl: cleanups
• yt-dlp: improve acast extractor
• duck: add indicator
• dpkg: avoid shell
• Debian BTS usertags: fix release/port usertags
• Debian QA services: more debugging, update hardcoding (1 2)
• Debian package uploads: foxtrotgps, sptag (1 2 3)
• Debian wiki pages: BookwormGdalPerl, ChrootOnAndroid, DebianKernel/UserspaceTools, DebianOval, DesertIslandTest, DHCP_Server, DissidentTest, Exim, InstallingDebianOn/Olimex/Teres-I, InstructionSelection (1 2), PortsDocs/New, Ports (hurd-amd64, riscv64), ReleasePartyBookworm/Israel/Tel Aviv, SourcesList, StableUpdates, SuitesAndReposExtension, SystemBuildTools, Teams (Publicity/VersionRelease, ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList, Webmaster/ReleaseCheckList), ThomasChung

Issues

• Crash in binarycontrol.debian.net (sent on IRC)
• Build failure in ddcci-dkms
• Incorrect description in manpages-ro-dev
• Obsolete conffile in gnome-applets-data
• Feature in lintian

Review

• Spam: reported 29 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved lsd stockfish x86dis
  • rejected libselinux1 (photo), stockfish (mobile app), php-bcmath (selfie), chromium-browser/binutils-alpha-linux-gnu (medical photo), weboob-qt (QR code)

Administration

• Debian QA services: deploy changes
• Debian IRC: updated #debian-live admin list
• Debian mentors: investigate reason for missing package
• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

• Initiate discussion about Debian OpenCL ICD virtual packages
• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The sptag work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• gensim: cancel obsolete GitHub jobs
• i2c-tools: fix links
• notmuch-mutt: fix data loss, encoding
• foxtrotgps: gpsd API bump
• flower: drop bootstrap/celery branding
• pass-otp: fix typos, links, errors, warnings, safety
• git-imerge: fix tests, typo, lists of versions, distros
• duck: indicators
• Debian website: recommend pseudo-header for X-Debbugs-CC
• Debian screenshots:
  • deleted pypy (just website)
• Debian QA services: fix crash
• Debian BTS: allow multiple X-Debbugs-CC lines, improve docs
• Debian BTS usertags: fix some porting, release, DSA usertags
• Debian package uploads: sptag
• Debian wiki pages: accessibility-devel, Brasil/IRC, Firmware/Updates, InstallingDebianOn/Wandboard, InstructionSelection, PortsDocs/New, Ports/hurd-amd64, Ports/loong64, SIMDEverywhere, Teams/RustPackaging
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources

Issues

• SIMDe: incorrect macros/definitions/names, GCC warnings

Review

• Spam: reported 3 Debian bug reports and 22 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored trurl
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved 3d-ascii-viewer angelfish autokey-gtk convert-pgn crystal-facet-uml deborphan diodon gcc glewlwyd glob2 kdiskmark loook man-db nemo ntpdate ntpsec-ntpdate paperwork-gtk pdftk-java picom python2.7 python3-tk python-tk scite software-properties-gtk stockfish stress-ng sudoku-solver util-linux-extra wmweather x11-apps xchat youtubedl-gui
  • rejected pypy (website), fonts-atarismall (UI not just font), gtk-theme-config (photo), kamailio (diagram not interface), node-connect (bug report), laditools/debian-installer/weboob-qt (artwork), xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/ubuntustudio-menu (full desktop), freecell-solver-bin (mobile app), vorbis-tools (manual page), veroroute (macOS?), ttf-mscorefonts-installer (better existing screenshot), gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 (random mobile website), chromium-browser (random website), mixer.app (aspirational text?), stockfish/pulseaudio-utils (selfie)

Administration

• Debian IRC: set topic on new #debian-sa channel
• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The SIMDe, gensim, sptag work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• libsafe: allow local deps
• i2c-tools: usability
• notmuch: notmuch-mutt: fix queries, drop shell usage
• duck: add indicators (1 2)
• Debian BTS: fix some QA/Python usertags
• Debian QA services: pass on HTTP errors, block bingbot (1 2), update releases
• Debian package tracker: update hard-coded data
• Debian wiki pages: DebianExperimental, DebianInstaller/CreateUSBMedia, DebianLogo, FileSystem, Firmware/Open, PortsDocs/New, QEMU, ReleasePartyBookworm
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources

Issues

• Security issue in secret manager (sent privately)
• Broken symlinks in opencpn
• Test problem in SPTAG
• Debian migration unblock needed for evolution

Review

• Spam: reported 22 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored trurl
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved audacious fortune-anarchism four-in-a-row freecell-solver-bin liblatex-table-perl mathtex neofetch pass px quadrapassel sash shellex swell-foop wifi-qr yash zsh-autosuggestions
  • rejected csmash (Windows wallpaper), anarchism (not very useful), agda-bin (music app), freecell-solver-bin (Windows), brasero/sagemath (screenshots web page), chrome-gnome-shell (phone call log), nitroshare (selfie), golang-go (logo), build-essential (random website), chromium-browser (photo)

Administration

• Debian IRC: fixed the #debian-mips channel topic
• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
• Debian QA services: deploy changes, investigate SourceForge uscan issue

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The SPTAG work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• colord: update link
• ArchiveBot: add gitweb ignoreset
• gensim: gitignore generated file, fix docs build, update links
• duck: add indicators (1 2)
• Debian QA services: drop jessie, convert errors to SQL commands, handle timeouts
• Debian BTS usertags: fix BSP, porter, rebootstrap, Python 3 tags
• Debian package uploads: purple-discord (1 2), sptag (1 2)
• Debian wiki pages: CrossGrading, Hardware/Wanted, InstructionSelection, OrganicMaps, Ports (loong64), PortsDocs/CreateDebianInstallerImages, Services (dpkg (IRC bot) factoid search, judd (IRC bot)), SummerOfCode2023
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources

Issues

• Broken links in Debian Portfolio Service (sent privately), debian-security-support
• Incorrectly versioned dependencies in firefox-esr
• New maintainer needed for purple-discord, harmony
• Conffile removal needed in pylint
• Outdated embedded code copy in gensim
• Expired certificate in ca-certificates

Review

• Spam: reported 2 Debian bug reports and 14 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved alpine android-file-transfer apt atop audacity boinc-manager boomaga buku changetrack cmatrix cpufetch dpkg drkonqi dte easyeffects eog evince f3d freecell-solver-bin fzy gedit ghostwriter gimp gimp-help-en gmlive gnome-calculator gnome-chess gnome-disk-utility gnome-feeds gnome-firmware gnome-logs gnome-mahjongg gnome-mines gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-panel gnome-shell-extension-freon gnome-shell-extension-prefs gnome-shell-extension-weather gnome-software gnome-sudoku gnome-text-editor gufw hwloc iagno im-config inkscape kamoso kde-config-systemd liblatex-table-perl libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice-calc libreoffice-draw libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-impress libreoffice-numbertext libreoffice-style-breeze libreoffice-style-colibre libreoffice-writer minder most nautilus nmon nvtop opensnitch pageedit pdfgrep pinpoint pipx planner plasma-welcome procps qalc qrterminal rtl-433 spacebar spek stockfish syncthingtray-kde-plasma systemd-resolved systray-mdstat uefitool vim-motif webext-privacy-badger webext-ublock-origin-firefox xapers zim
  • rejected lighttpd-modules-ldap (medical photo?), webext-debianbuttons (accidental), mkdocs (random web page), wallstreet (truncated), qrencode (output not UI), cgpt (bug report?), fluid-soundfont-gm/ (photo), b43-fwcutter (wallpaper), chromium-browser/kopano-webapp-lighttpd/libc6 (mobile app), pspg (Fedora), mancala (another implementation), nginx (Russian flag), chromium-browser (homework?), qflipper (firmware not updater), chromium-browser (just a QR code), kde-telepathy-contact-list (random website), gcc (bug report?)

Administration

• Debian QA services: disabled updating jessie as it was removed
• Debian IRC: rescued #debian-s390x from inactive person
• Debian servers: repair a /etc git repo
• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The gensim, sptag, purple-discord, harmony work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• translate-shell: https, typo
• pyemd: fix dep
• duck: sort, add moved site indicators
• devscripts: fix https, UTF-8, wnpp-alert
• reportbug: fix URLs/data
• Debian QA services: excuses improvements
• Debian package uploads: pyemd (1 2), sptag
• Debian sysadmin wiki pages: ports/hardware-requirements
• Debian wiki pages: DebianEdu (DebianEdu/Documentation (Buster, Etch, Jessie, Lenny, Squeeze, Stretch, Wheezy), GSoD2023Proposal, PageFragment/ObsoleteRelease), DebianIndia/MiniDebConfTamilNadu2023, DebianName, HardwareQualification, LibreOffice, PortsDocs/New, Ports/loong64, PortTemplate, PrivacyIssues, ReleaseParty, (Bookworm), Salsa, Security/U2F, Sparc64, Statistics, SummerOfCode2023/PendingProjects/DebianRustCoreutils, Teams (Debbugs/ArchitectureTags, ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList (BookwormCheckList))
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources

Issues

• Feature in evolution
• Privacy issue in a communications client (sent privately)
• Packaging preparation needed for scancode-toolkit
• Conffile removal needed in puppet-agent
• New release needed for pyemd
• Incorrect link in dmitry

Review

• Spam: reported 36 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved baobab clamtk-gnome claws-mail davegnukem far2l fonts-monofur freecell-solver-bin gadmin-samba gimp-plugin-registry goldendict-webengine grub-imageboot kdiff3 mate-system-monitor memtest86+ micro netplan.io opensnitch oxygen-cursor-theme plasma-mobile sabnzbdplus wine wmaker wordgrinder-ncurses yoshimi
  • rejected torcs (advertising?), chromedriver/libomxil-bellagio0-components-xvideo (selfie), weboob-qt (Windows), intel-microcode (Fedora, non-free), chromium-chromedriver (white screen)

Administration

• Debian BTS: unarchive/reopen/triage bugs for reintroduced package servefile
• Debian IRC: turn an old channel into a redirect to the right one
• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The pyemd/sptag work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• pydispatcher: fix doc build with Python 3.11
• pyemd: cleanups
• sourcehut: add repo description to git, hg summary page titles
• Debian security tracker: add more CVE search services
• Debian BTS usertags: fixed some cross, ftp-master, website, porting usertags
• Debian screenshots:
  • deleted wine (WinXP not Wine)
• Debian package uploads: python-docutils, pydispatcher, celery
• Debian wiki pages: ArchitectureSpecificsMemo, BSP, bugs.debian.org/usertags, DebConf/25/Bids/Portugal, DebianDay, (2022, 2023), DebianDesktop/Artwork/Bookworm, DebianIndia/MiniDebConfTamilNadu2023, DebianNetDomains, DeveloperNews, Exploits, Hardware/Wanted, HostingBSP, InstallingDebianOn, IRC, LTS/Development, Netbeans, PlanetDebian, PortalTemplate, Ports (arc, ia64, loong64, riscv64 (1 2)), PortTemplate, PressCoverage, Printing, PrivacyIssues, qa.debian.org (ArchiveTesting, MIATeam), Sprints, SystemBuildTools, Year
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources

Issues

• Security issue with a software hosting service (sent privately)
• Crashes in alot, pypi2deb
• Missing dependency in itinerary
• Broken link in buskill
• Bogus package description in yq
• Future orphaning of purple-discord, harmony
• Features in libpipeline, lintian (1 2)
• Migration to pyproject.toml needed for pyemd

Review

• Spam: reported 2 Debian bug reports and 38 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian packages: sponsored cruft-ng (x2)
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved adjtimex apt bfbtester check-dfsg-status checksec cpu-x ctwm dconf-editor debian-archive-keyring debian-keyring deepin-log-viewer dpkg-www edgar elektroid extremetuxracer glances glew-utils glogg gnome-characters gnome-font-viewer gnome-tweaks grub-customizer hashalot hashrat hexcurse hexter hexyl ldm ldm-ubuntu-theme ldm-ubuntu-themes libc-bin linuxinfo lsof netr poedit prusa-slicer qdmr sawfish thefuck ttf-mscorefonts-installer twm util-linux-extra
  • rejected nvidia-smi (non-free), gir1.2-gtop-2.0 (error message), stockfish (random chess website), nodm (black screen), ldm (Windows), awscli (logo), hostap-utils (QR code photo), wine (WSL not Wine), apt (screenshots website), orthanc (private patient info), ipython3-qtconsole (wallpaper), qarecord (portrait photo)

Administration

• Debian BTS: unarchive/reopen/triage bugs for reintroduced packages cycle/pygopherd and ask about guile-2.2 reintroduction bugs
• Debian IRC: fix topic/info of obsolete channel
• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts, approve domains.

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The celery, docutils, pyemd work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

As you know, Debian projects and sponsor provides so-called "porterbox", but it does not cover all architectures. There are some alternatives to fix architecture-specific bugs. For the record, let's pick it up them. [1][2][3]

	porterbox	deb-o-matic	qemu
amd64	adayevskaya.d.o	debomatic-amd64.d.n	DQIB ready
arm64	amdahl.d.o	debomatic-arm64.d.n	DQIB ready
armel	amdahl.d.o abel.d.o	debomatic-armel.d.n	NG
armhf	amdahl.d.o abel.d.o harris.d.o	debomatic-armhf.d.n	DQIB ready
i386	exodar.d.n	debomatic-i386.d.n	DQIB ready
mips64el	eller.d.o	debomatic-mips64el.d.n	DQIB ready
mipsel	eller.d.o	debomatic-mipsel.d.n	DQIB ready
ppc64el	platti.d.o	debomatic-ppc64el.d.n	DQIB ready
s390x	zelenka.d.o	debomatic-s390x.d.n	DQIB ready
alpha	N/A	N/A	NG
arc	N/A	N/A	N/A
hppa	panama.d.n	N/A	N/A
ia64	yttrium.d.n	N/A	N/A
kfreebsd-amd64	lemon.d.n	N/A	N/A
kfreebsd-i386	lemon.d.n	N/A	N/A
m68k	mitchy.d.n	N/A	NG
powerpc	perotto.d.n	debomatic-powerpc.d.n	DQIB ready
ppc64	perotto.d.n	N/A	DQIB ready
riscv64	debian-riscv64-porterbox-01.d.n	N/A	DQIB ready
sh4	N/A	N/A	NG
sparc64	kyoto.d.n	N/A	N/A
x32	N/A	N/A	N/A

Thus, no alternatives for alpha, arc, sh4 and x32.

• UPDATES(1/26) The above case is not only the way to do so. There are more alternatives to be taken into account. See https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Wanted#Available_hardware about details. Thanks, feedback from @pabs
• [1] https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi
• [2] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianNetDomains
• [3] https://people.debian.org/~gio/dqib/

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• devscripts: allow rmadison to query archived releases, unofficial ports
• debiman: update prerequisites
• reportbug: drop cruft, add tags based on subject
• debbugs: fix usertag validation
• Debian DDPO: better syntax error messages
• Debian madison: allow querying archived releases, unofficial ports
• Debian ftp-master website: typos
• Debian mirrors list: fix debian.co.il
• Debian mirror status: fix crash, debianbts usage
• Debian screenshots:
  • deleted pcscd (manual page), stockfish (actually of chess.com)
• Debian BTS usertags: fixed some security, porter, QA, FTP and website usertags
• Debian package uploads: crawl, git-remote-hg, azure-functions-devops-build
• Debian wiki pages: ArchiveQualification (riscv64 (1 2)), BuildProfileSpec, ContinuousIntegration (GUI, TUI), Cruft, DAManager, debconf, DebianIndia, DeveloperNews, FediverseTeam, InterWikiMap, KernelFAQ, Ketchup, LocalGroups, LoongArch, MemberBenefits, MiniDebConf, MIPS/UserTags, Ports (arc, ia64, loong64, riscv64), PortsDocs/New, PortTemplate, qa.debian.org/usertagging, ReleaseRecertification (jessie, stretch, wheezy), reportbug, ServicesHosting, Services/PublicUddMirror, SystemBuildTools, Teams (Debbugs/ArchitectureTags (1 2), DebianNet, ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList), ungoogled-chromium

Issues

• Potential security issue in several Python programs (sent to the Debian Security Team).
• Crashes in Debian Portfolio service (sent privately), GLib
• Broken symlink in llvm-defaults
• Non-breaking-space chars in emacs-cmake-mode
• Features in lintian
• Warnings in pyvmomi
• Inaccurate data in UDD how-can-i-help
• Invalid syntax in rust-plotters
• Fork updated for git-remote-hg
• Conffile removal needed in zutils
• Alternatives removal needed in g++-mingw-w64-x86-64-win32
• Regression in pkgconf (vs pkg-config)
• Unsupported device in ddccontrol-db

Review

• Spam: reported 93 Debian mailing list posts
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved ace-of-penguins acfax alacritty bfbtester cwm dolphin freefilesync kleopatra libpam-runtime logsave materia-gtk-theme mesa-utils netselect neverball python3-asdf python3-unyt stockfish xfig xfractint xfwm4
  • rejected pcscd (help output), orthanc (non-anonymised medical data), fonts-courier-prime (better existing screenshot), shutter (Windows, browser screenshot), bash (an editor), dwarves (random instagram account), alacritty (help output), xfonts-100dpi/goxel/gparted (selfie)

Administration

• Debian BTS: unarchive/reopen/triage bugs for reintroduced packages: gnome-shell-extension-no-annoyance
• Debian servers: contact mail server blocking a Debian MX
• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The azure-functions-devops-build work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• vcs-home: add links (1 2)
• purple-discord: link repology
• duck: add indicator
• how-can-i-help: cleanups
• libusbgx: fix C++ build
• devscripts: add error info
• debbugs: allow mbox export of responses, toggle response display using CSS
• Debian website: drop spam domain
• Debian package uploads: libemail-outlook-message-perl (backports 1 2), purple-discord, sptag, celery (1 2)
• Debian wiki pages: accessibility, ArchitectureSpecificsMemo, BackupAndRecovery, DebianKernel (GitBisect, UserspaceTools), DebianUpgrade, DebianWiki/Contact, Debootstrap, DeveloperNews (1 2), Glossary, loongarch64, LoongArch, LTS/Development, PorterBoxHowToUse, PortsDocs/New, Ports (loong64, riscv64), ppc64el, QuickInstall, RISC-V, SponsorChecklist, SystemBuildTools, Teams (Dpkg/MergedUsr, Security), TracingExecution, VLC

Issues

• Crash in rtorrent
• Regression in pastebinit
• Generated files in Sequoia linter
• Build failure in subversion
• Tests disabled in libx86emu

Review

• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved apt ares avahi-discover build-essential calibre cantor chkboot coreutils dmitry drumstick-tools file fritzing fwupd gddccontrol inkscape instlled jigdo-file kalzium ktrip kylin-display-switch nm-tray procps reprooduce sddm-theme-debian-maui stress-ng termtris urlview xfce4-notifyd xfce4-statusnotifier-plugin
  • rejected gcc (help output), synaptic (random desktop crop), simplescreenrecorder (too small), fritzing (website), elinks (prominent advertising), dosbox (proprietary game)

Administration

• Debian IRC: setup topic/entrymsg to redirect OFTC #debian-jp to the Debian Japan IRC server, cleaned up #debianppc ChanServ metadata
• Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve domains, approve accounts

Communication

• Initiate discussions about lintian classification tags for porters, incorrect Homepage in r-cran-* packages
• Edited and sent Debian Misc Developer News #58
• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors The libemail-outlook-message-perl, purple-discord, sptag, celery work was sponsored. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• wayback-machine-downloader: fix typo
• reportbug: add affects/xcc
• libredirect: cleanup
• zxing-cpp: add help options
• Debian release website: reorder essential list
• Debian screenshots:
  • deleted mpv (proprietary video)
• Debian usertags: fix misapplied riscv64 tags due to malformatted email
• Debian wiki pages: ArchitectureSpecificsMemo, BSP/Hosting, DebianLogo, DebianSoftware, DebianWomen, DeveloperNews, Exploits, Firmware/Open, Flatpak, Hardware/Wanted, InstructionSelection, Ports, PortsDocs/New, ppc64el, PrivacyIssues, ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsFromCPPMacros, Statistics, Teams (LXQtPackagingTeam, ReleaseTeam (binNMUvsNMU, ReleaseCheckList)), TeamTemplate, Year
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources

Issues

• Crash in Sequoia linter
• Missing include in irssi apparmor profile
• Features in apt-listbugs (1 2), confusable_homoglyphs, etckeeper, diffoscope (1 2 3 4), libredirect, debsecan, glab, Sequoia linter (1 2)
• Expired certs in Debian ca-certificates
• API porting needed in sord
• Incorrect links in sord, zint
• Additional binary packages needed in zxing-cpp
• Conffile removal needed in puppet
• Warnings in dkms
• Invalid Uploaders syntax in rust-linux-raw-sys, haskell-chasingbottoms
• Additional Debian autorejects needed, for invalid uploaders fields (1 2)
• Format misdetection in file
• Version confusion in apt-listchanges

Review

• Spam: reported 52 Debian mailing list posts
• Patches: merged chromium-bsu patches
• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved abw2epub appstream appstream-util apt apt-file aptfs archmage arj asciinema audacity backup-manager btop cabextract caca-utils caja celluloid chase debian-kernel-handbook debsecan exult findutils firmware-linux-nonfree gcab gxkb initramfs-tools-core libc6 mboxgrep mbw mediainfo-gui missidentify nala neofetch pavucontrol-qt qabc qalculate-gtk qbittorrent qbittorrent-nox sakura simplescreenrecorder synaptic timidity tlp transmission transmission-gtk transmission-qt vim
  • rejected tryton-modules-bank (selfie), aranym (just a terminal on vmware guest), sakura (help output), mpv (proprietary videos), os-prober (non-UI screenshots), mc (wrong package), openssh-server (photo of shoes), network-manager (random web page), aptfs (generic mount point screenshot), unrar/aptfs (help output), gcc (version output), android-libsparse (portrait), node-buffer (logo?), dvorak7min (cartoon), fceux (proprietary game), celluloid (duplicate)

Administration

• Debian BTS: unarchive/reopen/triage bugs for reintroduced packages nautilus-image-converter, swift-im, runit-services
• Debian IRC: removed 2 spammers from OFTC, disable anti-spam channel modes for some channels
• Debian servers: restart processes due to OOM
• Debian wiki: approve accounts

Communication

• Initiate discussion about the apt hook protocol
• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors All work was done on a volunteer basis.

Focus This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.

Changes

• halibut: add documentation generator metadata
• mpv-mpris: fix tests
• duck: obsolete site indicators
• devscripts: fix example, add experimental pseudo-excuses
• dpkg-repack: show dpkg-deb cmd
• Debian QA services: add experimental pseudo-excuses, improve excuses page
• Debian usertags: fixed ports, lintian usertags
• Debian package uploads: mpv-mpris backport
• Debian wiki pages: ArchitectureSpecificsMemo, DebianArt/Themes/Emerald, DebianDesktop/Artwork (Bookworm), DebianLogo, DeveloperNews, FPGA, Gnome, HomeAssistant, InstructionSelection (1 2), LTS, PackageKit, PipeWire, Salsa/support, Services, ServicesHosting, SIMDEverywhere, SimpleBackportCreation, spotify, SystemBuildTools, ThomasChung, UsingSymbolsFiles, ZRam, Zswap
• Libreplanet wiki pages: Group:Free_Software_Foundation/Ideas
• FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
• Wikipedia: Message-ID

Issues

• Conffile removal in dkms
• Features in UDD, virtual-fido
• Security hardening in open-in-mpv
• Packaging needed for prr, libredirect, wayback-machine-webextension
• Underlinking in libgrpc
• Data import problem in UDD
• HTML injection in a conversion utility (sent privately)

Review

• Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
• Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
• Debian screenshots:
  • approved apticron-systemd argyll chromium-browser coreutils e2fsprogs exuberant-ctags firefox gnome-flashback gnome-recipes gparted initramfs-tools kdocker kleopatra latte-dock mac-robber mail-expire mgba-qt mount parolottero-data-us plasma-widget-folderview reglookup stockfish sxmo-utils uuid-runtime yoshimi
  • rejected weboob-qt/quake (politics), pass (baby photo), hylafax-client/libc6/ (photo of broken screen), aptitude (screenshots website), apt-file (NSFW photo), synaesthesia (meme image), kde-full (photo of human), ubuntustudio-menu (too small), tesseract-ocr-eng (identification card), mpv (proprietary video), g++-9/python3-ldap (random logo), synaptic (logo), openjdk-8-jre (NSFW, mobile browser), libreoffice-base-core/librtmp1/audacity (Android/iOS app), virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (ISO contents not interface), weboob-qt (another package), freecell-solver-bin (accidentally)

Administration

• Debian QA services: deploy changes
• Debian wiki: approve accounts

Communication

• Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC

Sponsors All work was done on a volunteer basis.