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My Debian Activities in February 2025

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-twenty-eighth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:

  • [DLA 4072-1] xorg-server security update to fix eight CVEs related to possible privilege escalation in X.
  • [DLA 4073-1] ffmpeg security update to fix three CVEs related to out-of-bounds read, assert errors and NULL pointer dereferences. This was the second update that I announced last month.

Last but not least I did some days of FD this month and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian ELTS

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

  • [ELA-1337-1] xorg-server security update to fix eight CVEs in Buster, Stretch and Jessie, related to possible privilege escalation in X.
  • [ELA-882-2] amanda regression update to improve a fix for privilege escalation. This old regression was detected by Beuc during his work as FD and now finally fixed.

Last but not least I did some days of FD this month and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded new packages or new upstream or bugfix versions of:

  • … hplip to fix some bugs and let hplip migrate to testing again.

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Matomo

This month I uploaded new packages or new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Finally matomo was uploaded. Thanks a lot to Utkarsh Gupta and William Desportes for doing most of the work to make this happen.

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

Unfortunately I didn’t found any time to upload packages.

Have you ever heard of poliastro? It was a package to do calculations related to astrodynamics and orbital mechanics? It was archived by upstream end of 2023. I am now trying to revive it under the new name boinor and hope to get it back into Debian over the next months.

This is almost the last month that Patrick, our Outreachy intern for the Debian Astro project, is handling his tasks. He is working on automatic updates of the indi 3rd-party driver.

Debian IoT

Unfortunately I didn’t found any time to work on this topic.

Debian Mobcom

This month I uploaded new packages or new upstream or bugfix versions of:

misc

Unfortunately I didn’t found any time to work on this topic.

FTP master

This month I accepted 437 and rejected 64 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 445.

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