My Debian Activities in July 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 502 and rejected 40 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 515.

In case you want to upload dozens of packages, it would be nice to give some heads-up before. It is kind of a shock to see a full NEW queue in the morning, though it was much shorter in the evening before.

Debian LTS

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

  • [#1074439] bookworm-pu: cups 2.4.2-3+deb12u7 has been marked for accept

This month I finished the new version of tiff for Bullseye (and Bookworm). The upload will follow, when Bullseye has been handed over to the LTS team in August.

Last but not least I attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian ELTS

This month was the seventy-second ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:

  • [ELA-1126-1-1]exim4 security update for one CVE. This was the delayed ELA I mentioned in my last report.
  • [ELA-1144-1-1]exim4 security update for one CVE to fix parsing of multiline RFC 2231 header filenames in Stretch and Buster. Jessie was not affected by this issue.
  • Uploaded new versions of tiff for Jessie and Stretch that got stuck in the autopkgtests.

For whatever reason, I had trouble with the CI again. The new tiff package wanted to run the autopkgtest of cups but never did it. So the corresponding ELA will appear only in August.

I also continued to work on an update for libvirt. There really is a reason why some packages don’t get much attention. Nevertheless someone has to take care of them. I also did a week of FD and attended the LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded …

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded a new upstream or bugfix version of:

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Debian Mobcom

This month I uploaded …

The following packages have been prepared by the GSoC student Nathan:

misc

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of: