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My Debian Activities in June 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 270 and rejected 23 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 279.

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-twentieth 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 3826-1] cups security update for one CVE to prevent arbitrary chmod of files
  • [#1073519] bullseye-pu: cups/2.3.3op2-3+deb11u7 to fix one CVE
  • [#1073518] bookworm-pu: cups/2.4.2-3+deb12u6 to fix one CVE
  • [#1073519] bullseye-pu: cups/2.3.3op2-3+deb11u7 package upload
  • [#1073518] bookworm-pu: cups/2.4.2-3+deb12u6 package upload
  • [#1074438] bullseye-pu: cups/2.3.3op2-3+deb11u8 to fix an upstream regression of the last upload
  • [#1074439] bookworm-pu: cups/2.4.2-3+deb12u7 to fix an upstream regression of the last upload
  • [#1074438] bullseye-pu: cups/2.3.3op2-3+deb11u8 package upload
  • [#1074439] bookworm-pu: cups/2.4.2-3+deb12u7 package upload
  • [#1055802] bookworm-pu: package qtbase-opensource-src/5.15.8+dfsg-11+deb12u1 package upload

This month handling of the CVE of cups was a bit messy. After lifting the embargo of the CVE, a published patch did not work with all possible combinations of the configuration. In other words, in cases of having only one local domain socket configured, the cupsd did not start and failed with a strange error. Anyway, upstream published a new set of patches, which made cups work again. Unfortunately this happended just before the latest point release for Bullseye and Bookworm, so that the new packages did not make it into the release, but stopped in the corresponding p-u-queues: stable-p-u and old-p-u.

I also continued to work on tiff and last but not least did a week of FD and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian ELTS

This month was the seventy-first ELTS month. During my allocated time I tried to upload a new version of cups for Jessie and Stretch. Unfortunately this was stopped due to an autopkgtest error, which I could not reproduce yet.

I also wanted to finally upload a fixed version of exim4. Unfortunately this was stopped due to lots of CI-jobs for Buster. Updates for Buster are now also availble from ELTS, so some stuff had to prepared before the actual switch end of June. Additionally everything was delayed due to a crash of the CI worker. All in all this month was rather ill-fated. At least the exim4 upload will happen/already happened in July.

I also continued to work on an update for libvirt, did a week of FD and attended the LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

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

All of those uploads are somehow related to /usr-move.

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Debian Mobcom

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

misc

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Here as well all uploads are somehow related to /usr-move