My Debian Activities in October 2015

FTP assistant

This month I marked 492 packages for accept and rejected 50 of them. I had to send only 11 emails to maintainers.

Up to now I accepted about 6000 packages, my first one was pexpect_3.0-1 on 20131211.

	date	package
1	20131211	pexpect_3.0-1
1111	20140506	dochelp_0.1
2121	20140825	cl-parse-number_1.3-1
2222	20140903	node-websocket-driver_0.3.5-1
3333	20150303	libparse-keyword-perl_0.08-1
4242	20150625	python-monotonic_0.2-1
4444	20150708	libmusicbrainz5_5.1.0+git20150707-1
5555	20150928	golang-github-yosssi-ace_0.0.4+git20150515.41.78e48a2-3

So, when do you expect accepted package number 6666, 7777, 8888 and 9999?

Squeeze LTS

This was my sixteenth month that I did some work for the Squeeze LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

This month I only got a workload of 13.25h. Altogether I uploaded those DLAs:

• [DLA 327-1] freeimage security update
• [DLA 331-1] polarssl security update
• [DLA 334-1] libxml2 security update
• [DLA 334-2] libxml2 regression update

While preparing the libxml2 upload, I mixed up things for the i386 build and so [DLA 334-2] had to follow shortly after [DLA 334-1].
I also prepared a new upload of PHP5 with nine CVEs fixed. I put the i386 and amd64 versions at people.d.o and invite everybody to test them and give positive or negative feedback. The real upload to the archive will happen next week.

This month I also had another term of doing frontdesk work and looked for CVEs that are important for Squeeze LTS or could be ignored.

Other stuff

This month I only polished some packages and uploaded:

• greylistd -> #786202 #771238
• uucp

I also manually closed #711329 and #352421. After adopting package chktex I inherited #352421, which was one of my oldest bugs. It was about emacs longlines-mode support and I could close it without actually fixing something. The longlines-mode vanished from emacs. So, sorry for that …