Posted on by alteholz

My Debian Activities in February 2022

FTP master

This month I accepted 484 and rejected 73 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 495.

The overall number of rejected packages was 76, which is about 15% of the uploads to NEW. While most of the maintainers do a great job when creating their debian/copyright, others are a bit lax. Unfortunately those people seem to be more enthusiastic when fighting for changes in NEW processing or even removing NEW.

One argument in discussions about NEW is that the copyright verification of packages can be done by the community after accepting the packages in the archive.
Last month I did not get any hint that such checks have been done by anybody. As the past already showed several times, this community based checks simply do not exist.

So in the end poorly maintained copyright information will rot in the archive and I am not sure that this really corresponds with the Debian Social Contract.

Debian LTS

This was my ninety-second 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 40h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of:

  • [DLA 2928-1] htmldoc security update for three CVEs
  • [#1004049] buster-pu: zziplib debdiff was approved and package uploaded
  • [#1004050] bullseye-pu: zziplib debdiff was approved and package uploaded
  • [#1004055] buster-pu: debdiff was approved and package uploaded
  • [#1006493] bullseye-pu: htmldoc/1.9.11-4+deb11u2
  • [#1006494] buster-pu: htmldoc/1.9.3-1+deb10u3
  • [#1006550] buster-pu: tiff/4.1.0+git191117-2~deb10u4
  • [#1006551] bullseye-pu: tiff/4.2.0-1+deb11u1

Unfortunately salsa went down at the end of the month, so several planned uploads did not happen and have to be delayed to March.

I also continued to work on security support for golang packages. Further I worked on packages in NEW on security-master and injected missing sources. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties.

Debian ELTS

This month was the forty-fourth ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELA-567-1 for apache2
  • ELA-567-2 for apache2
  • ELA-568-1 for ksh
  • ELA-569-1 for tiff
  • ELA-570-1 for htmldoc

Further I worked on cyrus-sasl but did not do an upload yet.

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

Debian Printing

As announced last month I uploaded a new version of cups.

Altogether I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of:

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of:

Other stuff

This month I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of: