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My Debian Activities in March 2026

Debian LTS/ELTS

This was my hundred-forty-first 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 4500-1] gimp security update to fix four CVEs related to denial of service or execution of arbitrary code.
  • [DLA 4503-1] evolution-data-server to fix one CVE related to a missing canonicalization of a file path.
  • [DLA 4512-1] strongswan security update to fix one CVE related to a denial of service.
  • [ELA-1656-1] gimp security update to fix four CVEs in Buster and Stretch related to denial of service or execution of arbitrary code.
  • [ELA-1660-1] evolution-data-server security update to fix one CVE in Buster and Stretch related to a missing canonicalization of a file path.
  • [ELA-1665-1] strongswan security update to fix one CVE in Buster related to a denial of service.
  • [ELA-1666-1] libvpx security update to fix one CVE in Buster and Stretch related to a denial of service or potentially execution of arbitrary code.

I also worked on the check-advisories script and proposed a fix for cases where issues would be assigned to the coordinator instead of the person who forgot doing something. I also did some work for a kernel update and packages snapd and ldx on security-master and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting. Last but not least I started to work on gst-plugins-bad1.0

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded a new upstream versions:

Several packages take care of group lpadmin in their maintainer scripts. With the upload of version 260.1-1 of systemd there is now a central package (systemd | systemd-standalone-sysusers | systemd-sysusers) that takes care of this. Other dependencies like adduser can now be dropped.

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Lomiri

This month I continued to work on unifying packaging on Debian and Ubuntu. This makes it easier to work on those packages independent of the used platform. I am also able to upload Debian packages to the corresponding Ubuntu PPA now. A small bug had to be fixed in the python script to allow the initial configuration in Launchpad.

This work is generously funded by Fre(i)e Software GmbH!

Debian Astro

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

  • … libplayerone to experimental. For a list of other packages please see below.

I also uploaded lots of indi-drivers (libplayerone, libsbig, libricohcamerasdk, indi-asi, indi-eqmod, indi-fishcamp, indi-inovaplx, indi-pentax, indi-playerone, indi-sbig, indi-mi, libahp-xc, indi-aagcloudwatcher, indi-aok, indi-apogee, libapogee3, indi-nightscape, libasi, libinovasdk, libmicam, indi-avalon, indi-beefocus, indi-bresserexos2, indi-dsi, indi-ffmv, indi-fli, indi-gige, info-gphoto, indi-gpsd, indi-gpsnmea, indi-limesdr, indi-maxdomeii, indi-mgen, indi-rtklib, indi-shelyak, indi-starbook, indi-starbookten, indi-talon6, indi-weewx-json, indi-webcam, indi-orion-ssg3, indi-armadillo-playtypus ) to experimental to make progress with the indi-transition. No problems with those drivers appeared and the next step would be the upload of indi version 2.x to unstable. I hope this will happen soon, as new drivers are already waiting in the pipeline. There have been also four packages, that migrated to the official indi package and are no longer needed as 3rdparty drivers (indi-astrolink4, indi-astromechfoc, indi-dreamfocuser, indi-spectracyber).

While working on these packages, I thought about testing them. Unfortunately I don’t have enough hardware to really check out every package, so I can upload most of them only as is. In case anybody is interested in a better testing coverage and me being able to provide upstream patches, I would be very glad about hardware donations.

Debian IoT

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

Debian Mobcom

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

misc

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

I also sponsored the upload of Matomo. Thanks a lot to William for preparing the package.

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