My Debian Activities in October 2020

FTP master

This month I accepted 208 packages and rejected 29. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 563, so yeah, I was not alone this month :-).

Anyway, this month marked another milestone in my NEW package handling. My overall number of ACCEPTed package exceeded the magic number of 20000 packages. This is almost 30% of all packages accepted in Debian. I am a bit proud of this achievement.

Debian LTS

This was my seventy-sixth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

This month my all in all workload has been 20.75h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

• [DLA 2415-1] freetype security update for one CVE
• [DLA 2419-1] dompurify.js security update for two CVEs
• [DLA 2418-1] libsndfile security update for eight CVEs
• [DLA 2421-1] cimg security update for eight CVEs

I also started to work on golang-1.7 and golang-1.8

Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties.

Debian ELTS

This month was the twenty eighth ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

• ELA-289-2 for python3.4
• ELA-304-1 for freetype
• ELA-305-1 for libsndfile

The first upload of python3.4, last month, did not build on armel, so I had to reupload an improved package this month. For amd64 and i386 the ELTS packages are built in native mode, whereas the packages on armel are cross-built. There is some magic in debian/rules of python to detect in which mode the package is built. This is important as some tests of the testsuite are not really working in cross-build-mode. Unfortunately I had to learn this the hard way …

The upload of libsndfile now aligns the number of fixed CVEs in all releases.

Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties.

Other stuff

Despite my NEW-handling and LTS/ELTS stuff I hadn’t much fun with Debian packages this month. Given the approaching freeze, I hope this will change again in November.