My Debian Activities in December 2025

Debian LTS/ELTS

This was my hundred-thirty-eighth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. (As the LTS- and ELTS-teams have been merged now, there is only one paragraph left for both activities.)

During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:

  • [cups] upload to unstable to fix an issue with the latest security upload
  • [libcoap3] uploaded to unstable to fix ten CVEs
  • [gcal] check whether security bug reports are really security bug reports (no, they are not and no CVEs have been issued yet)
  • [#1124284] trixie-pu for libcoap3 to fix ten CVEs in Trixie.
  • [#1121342] trixie-pu bug; debdiff has been approved and libcupsfilters uploaded.
  • [#1121391] trixie-pu bug; debdiff has been approved and cups-filter uploaded.
  • [#1121392] bookworm-pu bug; debdiff has been approved and cups-filter uploaded.
  • [#1121433] trixie-pu bug; debdiff has been approved and rlottie uploaded.
  • [#1121437] bookworm-pu bug; debdiff has been approved and rlottie uploaded.
  • [#1124284] trixie-pu bug; debdiff has been approved and libcoap3 uploaded.

I also tried to backport the libcoap3-patches to Bookworm, but I am afraid the changes would be too intrusive.

When I stumbled upon a comment for 7zip about “finding the patches might be a hard”, I couldn’t believe it. Well, Daniel was right and I didn’t find any.

Furthermore I worked on suricata, marked some CVEs as not-affected or ignored, and added some new patches. Unfortunately my allocated time was spent before I could do a new upload.

I also attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Last but not least I injected some packages for uploads to security-master.

Debian Printing

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

  • cups to unstable.

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Lomiri

I started to contribute to Lomiri packages, which are part of the Debian UBports Team. As a first step I took care of failing CI pipelines and tried to fix them. A next step would be to package some new Applications.

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:

Debian IoT

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

Debian Mobcom

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

misc

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

Last but not least, I wish (almost) everbody a Happy New Year and hope that you are able to stick to your New Year’s resolutions.

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