Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, August 2024 (by Roberto C. S nchez)
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian s Debian LTS offering.
Debian LTS contributors
In August, 16 contributors have been paid to work on Debian
LTS, their reports are available:
Debian LTS contributors
In August, 16 contributors have been paid to work on Debian
LTS, their reports are available:
- Adrian Bunk
did 44.5h (out of 46.5h assigned and 53.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 55.5h to the next month.
- Bastien Roucari s
did 20.0h (out of 20.0h assigned).
- Ben Hutchings
did 9.0h (out of 0.0h assigned and 21.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 12.0h to the next month.
- Chris Lamb
did 18.0h (out of 18.0h assigned).
- Daniel Leidert
did 12.0h (out of 7.0h assigned and 5.0h from previous period).
- Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
did 22.25h (out of 6.5h assigned and 53.5h from previous period), thus carrying over 37.75h to the next month.
- Guilhem Moulin
did 17.5h (out of 8.75h assigned and 11.25h from previous period), thus carrying over 2.5h to the next month.
- Lee Garrett
did 11.5h (out of 58.0h assigned and 2.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 48.5h to the next month.
- Markus Koschany
did 40.0h (out of 40.0h assigned).
- Ola Lundqvist
did 14.5h (out of 4.0h assigned and 20.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 9.5h to the next month.
- Roberto C. S nchez
did 8.25h (out of 5.0h assigned and 7.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 3.75h to the next month.
- Santiago Ruano Rinc n
did 21.5h (out of 11.5h assigned and 10.0h from previous period).
- Sean Whitton
did 4.0h (out of 2.25h assigned and 3.75h from previous period), thus carrying over 2.0h to the next month.
- Sylvain Beucler
did 42.0h (out of 46.0h assigned and 14.0h from previous period), thus carrying over 18.0h to the next month.
- Thorsten Alteholz
did 11.0h (out of 11.0h assigned).
- Tobias Frost
did 2.5h (out of 7.75h assigned and 4.25h from previous period), thus carrying over 9.5h to the next month.
Evolution of the situation
In August, we have released 1 DLAs.
During the month of August Debian 11 "bullseye" officially transitioned to the responsibility of the LTS team (on 2024-08-15). However, because the final point release (11.11) was not made until 2024-08-31, LTS contributors were prevented from uploading packages to bullseye until after the point release had been made. That said, the team was not at all idle, and was busy at work on a variety of tasks which impacted both LTS and the broader Debian community, as well as preparing uploads which will be released during the month of September.
Of particular note, LTS contributor Bastien Roucari s prepared updates of the putty and cacti packages for bookworm (1 2) and bullseye (1 2), which were accepted by the old-stable release managers for the August point releases. He also analysed several security regressions in the apache2 package. LTS contributor Emilio Pozuelo Monfort worked on the Rust toolchain in bookworm and bullseye, which will be needed to support the upcoming Firefox ESR and Thunderbird ESR releases from the Mozilla project. Additionally, LTS contributor Thorsten Alteholz prepared bookworm and bullseye updates of the cups package (1 2), which were accepted by the old-stable release managers for the August point releases.
LTS contributor Markus Koschany collaborated with Emmanuel Bourg, co-maintainer of the tomcat packages in Debian. Regressions in a proposed security fix necessitated the updating of the tomcat10 package in Debian to the latest upstream release.
LTS contributors Bastien and Santiago Ruano Rinc n collaborated with the upstream developers and the Debian maintainer (Bernhard Schmidt) of the FreeRADIUS project towards addressing the BlastRADIUS vulnerability in the bookworm and bullseye versions of the freeradius package. If you use FreeRADIUS in Debian bookworm or bullseye, we encourage you to test the packages following the instructions found in the call for testers to help identifying any possible regression that could be introduced with these updates.
Testing is an important part of the work the LTS Team does, and in that vein LTS contributor Sean Whitton worked on improving the documentation and tooling around creating test filesystems which can be used for testing a variety of package update scenarios.
Thanks to our sponsors
Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.
- Platinum sponsors:
- TOSHIBA (for 107 months)
- Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 75 months)
- VyOS Inc (for 39 months)
- Gold sponsors:
- Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 117 months)
- Akamai - Linode (for 111 months)
- Babiel GmbH (for 101 months)
- Plat Home (for 100 months)
- CINECA (for 75 months)
- University of Oxford (for 57 months)
- Deveryware (for 44 months)
- EDF SA (for 29 months)
- Dataport A R (for 4 months)
- Silver sponsors:
- Domeneshop AS (for 122 months)
- Nantes M tropole (for 116 months)
- Univention GmbH (for 108 months)
- Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 108 months)
- Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 102 months)
- Exonet B.V. (for 91 months)
- Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 86 months)
- Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 69 months)
- Cloudways by DigitalOcean (for 59 months)
- Dinahosting SL (for 57 months)
- Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 51 months)
- Platform.sh SAS (for 51 months)
- Moxa Inc. (for 45 months)
- sipgate GmbH (for 43 months)
- OVH US LLC (for 41 months)
- Tilburg University (for 41 months)
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 32 months)
- Soliton Systems K.K. (for 29 months)
- THINline s.r.o. (for 5 months)
- Bronze sponsors:
- Evolix (for 122 months)
- Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 122 months)
- Intevation GmbH (for 119 months)
- Linuxhotel GmbH (for 119 months)
- Daevel SARL (for 118 months)
- Bitfolk LTD (for 117 months)
- Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 117 months)
- Greenbone AG (for 116 months)
- NUMLOG (for 116 months)
- WinGo AG (for 115 months)
- Entr ouvert (for 106 months)
- Adfinis AG (for 104 months)
- Tesorion (for 99 months)
- GNI MEDIA (for 98 months)
- Laboratoire LEGI - UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 98 months)
- Bearstech (for 90 months)
- LiHAS (for 90 months)
- Catalyst IT Ltd (for 85 months)
- Supagro (for 80 months)
- Demarcq SAS (for 79 months)
- Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 65 months)
- TouchWeb SAS (for 57 months)
- SPiN AG (for 54 months)
- CoreFiling (for 50 months)
- Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 45 months)
- Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 41 months)
- Tem Innovations GmbH (for 36 months)
- WordFinder.pro (for 35 months)
- CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 34 months)
- Alter Way (for 27 months)
- Institut Camille Jordan (for 17 months)
- SOBIS Software GmbH
Thanks to our sponsors
Sponsors that joined recently are in bold.
- Platinum sponsors:
- TOSHIBA (for 107 months)
- Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 75 months)
- VyOS Inc (for 39 months)
- Gold sponsors:
- Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 117 months)
- Akamai - Linode (for 111 months)
- Babiel GmbH (for 101 months)
- Plat Home (for 100 months)
- CINECA (for 75 months)
- University of Oxford (for 57 months)
- Deveryware (for 44 months)
- EDF SA (for 29 months)
- Dataport A R (for 4 months)
- Silver sponsors:
- Domeneshop AS (for 122 months)
- Nantes M tropole (for 116 months)
- Univention GmbH (for 108 months)
- Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 108 months)
- Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 102 months)
- Exonet B.V. (for 91 months)
- Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 86 months)
- Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 69 months)
- Cloudways by DigitalOcean (for 59 months)
- Dinahosting SL (for 57 months)
- Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 51 months)
- Platform.sh SAS (for 51 months)
- Moxa Inc. (for 45 months)
- sipgate GmbH (for 43 months)
- OVH US LLC (for 41 months)
- Tilburg University (for 41 months)
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 32 months)
- Soliton Systems K.K. (for 29 months)
- THINline s.r.o. (for 5 months)
- Bronze sponsors:
- Evolix (for 122 months)
- Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 122 months)
- Intevation GmbH (for 119 months)
- Linuxhotel GmbH (for 119 months)
- Daevel SARL (for 118 months)
- Bitfolk LTD (for 117 months)
- Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 117 months)
- Greenbone AG (for 116 months)
- NUMLOG (for 116 months)
- WinGo AG (for 115 months)
- Entr ouvert (for 106 months)
- Adfinis AG (for 104 months)
- Tesorion (for 99 months)
- GNI MEDIA (for 98 months)
- Laboratoire LEGI - UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 98 months)
- Bearstech (for 90 months)
- LiHAS (for 90 months)
- Catalyst IT Ltd (for 85 months)
- Supagro (for 80 months)
- Demarcq SAS (for 79 months)
- Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 65 months)
- TouchWeb SAS (for 57 months)
- SPiN AG (for 54 months)
- CoreFiling (for 50 months)
- Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 45 months)
- Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 41 months)
- Tem Innovations GmbH (for 36 months)
- WordFinder.pro (for 35 months)
- CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 34 months)
- Alter Way (for 27 months)
- Institut Camille Jordan (for 17 months)
- SOBIS Software GmbH
- TOSHIBA (for 107 months)
- Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 75 months)
- VyOS Inc (for 39 months)
- Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 117 months)
- Akamai - Linode (for 111 months)
- Babiel GmbH (for 101 months)
- Plat Home (for 100 months)
- CINECA (for 75 months)
- University of Oxford (for 57 months)
- Deveryware (for 44 months)
- EDF SA (for 29 months)
- Dataport A R (for 4 months)
- Domeneshop AS (for 122 months)
- Nantes M tropole (for 116 months)
- Univention GmbH (for 108 months)
- Universit Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 108 months)
- Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 102 months)
- Exonet B.V. (for 91 months)
- Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 86 months)
- Minist re de l Europe et des Affaires trang res (for 69 months)
- Cloudways by DigitalOcean (for 59 months)
- Dinahosting SL (for 57 months)
- Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland KG (for 51 months)
- Platform.sh SAS (for 51 months)
- Moxa Inc. (for 45 months)
- sipgate GmbH (for 43 months)
- OVH US LLC (for 41 months)
- Tilburg University (for 41 months)
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum f r Schwerionenforschung GmbH (for 32 months)
- Soliton Systems K.K. (for 29 months)
- THINline s.r.o. (for 5 months)
- Evolix (for 122 months)
- Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 122 months)
- Intevation GmbH (for 119 months)
- Linuxhotel GmbH (for 119 months)
- Daevel SARL (for 118 months)
- Bitfolk LTD (for 117 months)
- Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 117 months)
- Greenbone AG (for 116 months)
- NUMLOG (for 116 months)
- WinGo AG (for 115 months)
- Entr ouvert (for 106 months)
- Adfinis AG (for 104 months)
- Tesorion (for 99 months)
- GNI MEDIA (for 98 months)
- Laboratoire LEGI - UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 98 months)
- Bearstech (for 90 months)
- LiHAS (for 90 months)
- Catalyst IT Ltd (for 85 months)
- Supagro (for 80 months)
- Demarcq SAS (for 79 months)
- Universit Grenoble Alpes (for 65 months)
- TouchWeb SAS (for 57 months)
- SPiN AG (for 54 months)
- CoreFiling (for 50 months)
- Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod (for 45 months)
- Observatoire des Sciences de l Univers de Grenoble (for 41 months)
- Tem Innovations GmbH (for 36 months)
- WordFinder.pro (for 35 months)
- CNRS DT INSU R sif (for 34 months)
- Alter Way (for 27 months)
- Institut Camille Jordan (for 17 months)
- SOBIS Software GmbH