Debian LTS
This was my hundred-thirty-third 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 4255-1] audiofile security update of two CVEs related to an integer overflow and a memory leak.
- [DLA 4256-1] libetpan security update to fix one CVE related to prevent a null pointer dereference.
- [DLA 4257-1] libcaca security update to fix two CVEs related to heap buffer overflows.
- [DLA 4258-1] libfastjson security update to fix one CVE related to an out of bounds write.
- [#1106867] kmail-account-wizard was marked as accepted
I also continued my work on suricata, which turned out to be more challenging than expected. This month I also did a week of FD duties and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.
Debian ELTS
This month was the eighty-fourth ELTS month. Unfortunately my allocated hours were far less than expected, so I couldn’t do as much work as planned.
Most of the time I spent with FD tasks and I also attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting. I further listened to the debusine talks during debconf. On the one hand I would like to use debusine to prepare uploads for embargoed ELTS issues, on the other hand I would like to use debusine to run the version of lintian that is used in the different releases. At the moment some manual steps are involved here and I tried to automate things. Of course like for LTS, I also continued my work on suricata.
Debian Printing
This month I uploaded a new upstream version of:
- … sane-airscan to experimental.
Guess what, I also started to work on a new version of hplip and intend to upload it in August.
This work is generously funded by Freexian!
Debian Astro
This month I uploaded new upstream versions of:
- … supernovas (sponsored upload to experimental)
- … calceph (sponsored upload to experimental)
I also uploaded the new package boinor. This is a fork of poliastro, which was retired by upstream and removed from Debian some months ago. I adopted it and rebranded it at the desire of upstream. boinor is the abbreviation of BOdies IN ORbit and I hope this software is still useful.
Debian Mobcom
Unfortunately I didn’t found any time to work on this topic.
misc
On my fight against outdated RFPs, I closed 31 of them in July. Their number is down to 3447 (how can you dare to open new RFPs? :-)). Don’t be afraid of them, they don’t bite and are happy to be released to a closed state.
FTP master
The peace will soon come to an end, so this month I accepted 87 and rejected 2 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 100.