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My Debian Activities in November 2024

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-twenty-fifth 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 3968-1] netatalk security update to fix four CVEs related to heap buffer overflow and writing arbitrary files. The patches have been prepared by the maintainer.
  • [DLA 3976-1] tgt update to fix one CVE related to not using a propper seed for rand()
  • [DLA 3977-1] xfpt update to fix one CVE related to a stack-based buffer overflow
  • [DLA 3978-1] editorconfig-core update to fix two CVEs related to buffer overflows.

I also continued to work on a fix for glewlwyd, which is more difficult than expected. Besides I started to work on ffmpeg and haproxy.

Last but not least I did a week of FD this month and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian ELTS

This month was the seventy-sixth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:

  • [ELA-1259-1]editorconfig-core security update for two CVEs in Buster to fix buffer overflows.

I also started to work on a fix for kmail-account-wizzard. Unfortunately preparing a testing environment takes some time and I did not finish testing this month. Besides I started to work on ffmpeg and haproxy.

Last but not least I did a week of FD this month and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian Printing

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

Debian Matomo

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

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded new packages or new upstream or bugfix versions of:

I also sponsored an upload of calceph.

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Debian Mobcom

This month I uploaded new packages or new upstream or bugfix versions of:

misc

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

I also did some NMU of opensta, kdrill, glosstex, irsim, pagetools, afnix, cpm, to fix some RC bugs.

FTP master

This month I accepted 266 and rejected 16 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 269.

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My Debian Activities in October 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 398 and rejected 22 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 441.

In case your RM bug is not closed within a month, you can assume that either the conversion of the subject of the bug email to the corresponding dak command did not work or you still need to take care of reverse dependencies. The dak command related to your removal bug can be found here.

Unfortunately the bahavior of some project members caused a decline of motivation of team members to work on these bugs. When I look at these bugs, I just copy and paste the above mentioned dak commands. If they don’t work, I don’t have the time to debug what is going wrong. So please read the docs and take care of it yourself. Please also keep in mind that you need to close the bug or set a moreinfo tag if you don’t want anybody to act on your removal bug.

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-twenty-fourth 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 3925-1] asterisk security update to fix two CVEs related to privilege escalation and DoS
  • [DLA 3940-1] xorg-server update to fix one CVE related to privilege escalation

Last but not least I did a week of FD this month and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian ELTS

This month was the seventy-fifth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:

  • [ELA-1198-1]cups security update for one CVE in Buster to fix the IPP attribute related CVEs.
  • [ELA-1199-1]cups security update for two CVEs in Stretch to fix the IPP attribute related CVEs
  • [ELA-1216-1]graphicsmagick security update for one CVE in Jessie
  • [ELA-1217-1]asterisk security update for two CVEs in Buster related to privilege escalation
  • [ELA-1218-1]asterisk security update for two CVEs in Stretch related to privilege escalation and DoS
  • [ELA-1223-1]xorg-server security update for one CVE in Jessie, Stretch and Buster related to privilege escalation

I also did a week of FD and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian Printing

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

Debian Matomo

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

Debian Astro

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

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

  • … pywws (yes, again this month)

Debian Mobcom

This month I uploaded new packages or new upstream or bugfix versions of:

misc

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

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My Debian Activities in September 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 441 and rejected 29 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 448.

I couldn’t believe my eyes, but this month I really accepted the same number of packages as last month.

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-twenty-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:

  • [unstable] libcupsfilters security update to fix one CVE related to validation of IPP attributes obtained from remote printers
  • [unstable] cups-filters security update to fix two CVEs related to validation of IPP attributes obtained from remote printers
  • [unstable] cups security update to fix one CVE related to validation of IPP attributes obtained from remote printers
  • [DSA 5778-1] prepared package for cups-filters security update to fix two CVEs related to validation of IPP attributes obtained from remote printers
  • [DSA 5779-1] prepared package for cups security update to fix one CVE related to validation of IPP attributes obtained from remote printers
  • [DLA 3905-1] cups-filters security update to fix two CVEs related to validation of IPP attributes obtained from remote printers
  • [DLA 3904-1] cups security update to fix one CVE related to validation of IPP attributes obtained from remote printers
  • [DLA 3905-1] cups-filters security update to fix two CVEs related to validation of IPP attributes obtained from remote printers

Despite the announcement the package libppd in Debian is not affected by the CVEs related to CUPS. By pure chance there is an unrelated package with the same name in Debian. I also answered some question about the CUPS related uploads. Due to the CUPS issues, I postponed my work on other packages to October.

Last but not least I did a week of FD this month and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian ELTS

This month was the seventy-fourth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on:

  • [ELA-1186-1]cups-filters security update for two CVEs in Stretch and Buster to fix the IPP attribute related CVEs.
  • [ELA-1187-1]cups-filters security update for one CVE in Jessie to fix the IPP attribute related CVEs (the version in Jessie was not affected by the other CVE).

I also started to work on updates for cups in Buster, Stretch and Jessie, but their uploads will happen only in October.

I also did a week of FD and attended the monthly LTS/ELTS meeting.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded …

  • … libcupsfilters to also fix a dependency and autopkgtest issue besides the security fix mentioned above.
  • … splix for a new upstream version. This package is managed now by OpenPrinting.

Last but not least I tried to prepare an update for hplip. Unfortunately this is a nerve-stretching task and I need some more time.

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Matomo

This month I even found some time to upload packages that are dependencies of Matomo …

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

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

Most of the uploads were related to package migration to testing. As some of them are in non-free or contrib, one has to build all binary versions. From my point of view handling packages in non-free or contrib could be very much improved, but well, they are not part of Debian …

Anyway, starting in December there is an Outreachy project that takes care of automatic updates of these packages. So hopefully it will be much easier to keep those package up to date. I will keep you informed.

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Debian Mobcom

This month I did source uploads of all the packages that were prepared last month by Nathan and started the transition. It went rather smooth except for a few packages where the new version did not propagate to the tracker and they got stuck in old failing autopkgtest. Anyway, in the end all packages migrated to testing.

I also uploaded new upstream releases or fixed bugs in:

misc

This month I uploaded new upstream or bugfix versions of:

Most of those uploads were needed to help packages to migrate to testing.

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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

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My Debian Activities in February 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 242 and rejected 42 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 251.

This was just a short month and the weather outside was not really motivating. I hope it will be better in March.

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-sixteenth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [DLA 3739-1] libjwt security update for one CVE to fix some ‘constant-time-for-execution-issue
  • [libjwt] upload to unstable
  • [#1064550] Bullseye PU bug for libjwt
  • [#1064551] Bookworm PU bug for libjwt
  • [#1064551] Bookworm PU bug for libjwt; upload after approval
  • [DLA 3741-1] engrampa security update for one CVE to fix a path traversal issue with CPIO archives
  • [#1060186] Bookworm PU-bug for libde265 was flagged for acceptance
  • [#1056935] Bullseye PU-bug for libde265 was flagged for acceptance

I also started to work on qtbase-opensource-src (an update is needed for ELTS, so an LTS update seems to be appropriate as well, especially as there are postponed CVE).

Debian ELTS

This month was the sixty-seventth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [ELA-1047-1]bind9 security update for one CVE to fix an stack exhaustion issue in Jessie and Stretch

The upload of bind9 was a bit exciting, but all occuring issues with the new upload workflow could be quickly fixed by Helmut and the packages finally reached their destination. I wonder why it is always me who stumbles upon special cases? This month I also worked on the Jessie and Stretch updates for exim4. I also started to work on an update for qtbase-opensource-src in Stretch (and LTS and other releases as well).

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded new upstream versions of:

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Matomo

I started a new team debian-matomo-maintainers. Within this team all matomo related packages should be handled. PHP PEAR or PECL packages shall be still maintained in their corresponding teams.

This month I uploaded:

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded a new upstream version of:

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream versions of:

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My Debian Activities in January 2024

FTP master

This month I accepted 333 and rejected 31 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 342.

Hooray, I already accepted package number 30000.

The statistic, where I get my numbers from, started in February 2002. Up to now 81694 packages got accepted. Given that I accepted package 20000 in October 2020, would I be able to accept half of the packages that made it through NEW?

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-fifteenth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [DLA 3726-1] bind9 security update for one CVEs to fix stack exhaustion
  • [#1060186] Bookworm PU-bug for libde265; yes, this is a new one.
  • [#1056935] Bullseye PU-bug for libde; yes, this is a new one as well

This month I was finally able to really run the test suite of bind9. I already wanted to give up with this package, but Santiago encouraged me to proceed. So, here you are fixed-Buster-version. Jessie and Stretch have to wait a bit until the dust has settled.

Last but not least I also did a few days of frontdesk duties.

Debian ELTS

This month was the sixty-sixth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [ELA-1031-1]xerces-c security update for one CVE to fix an out-of-bound access in Jessie and Stretch
  • [ELA-1036-1] jasper security update for one CVE to fix an invalid memory write

This month I also worked on the Jessie and Stretch updates for bind9. The uploads should happen soon. I also started to work on an update for exim4. Last but not least I did a few days of frontdesk duties.

Debian Printing

This month I adopted:

At the moment these packages are the last adoptions to preserve the old printing protocol within Debian. If you know of other packages that should be retained, please don’t hesitate to ask me. But don’t wait for too long, I have fun to process RM-bugs :-).

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded a new upstream version of:

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded new upstream versions of:

  • … pyicloud to remove the deprecated dependency python3-future

Other stuff

This month I uploaded new upstream version of packages, did a source upload for the transition or uploaded it to fix one or the other issue:

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My Debian Activities in December 2023

FTP master

This month I accepted 235 and rejected 13 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 249. I also handled lots of RM bugs and almost stopped the increase in packages this month :-). Please be aware, if you don’t want your package to be removed, take care of it and keep it in good shape!

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-fourteenth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [DLA 3686-1] xorg-server security update for two CVEs to fix privilege escalation
  • [DLA 3686-2] xorg-server security update for one CVE to really fix privilege escalation. Unfortunately the first patches provided by upstream did not really solve the problem, so here we are in round 2
  • [DLA 3699-1] libde265 security update for three CVEs to fix heap buffer or global buffer overflows
  • [DLA 3700-1] cjson security update for one CVE to fix a segmentation violation
  • [#1056934] Bookworm PU-bug for libde265; I could finally upload the package
  • [#1056737] Bookworm PU-bug for minizip; I could finally upload the package
  • [libde265]For the next round of CVEs of libde265 I prepared debdiffs for Bullseye and Bookworm and sent them to the maintainer.
  • [cjson]I prepared debdiffs for Bullseye and Bookworm and sent them to the maintainer.

This month was rather calm and no unexpected things happened. The web team now automatically creates all webpages from data found in the security tracker. So I could deactivate my web-dla script again which created the webpages from the contents of the announcement mailing list.

Last but not least I also did two weeks of frontdesk duties.

Debian ELTS

This month was the sixty-fifth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [ELA-1019-1]xorg-server security update for two CVEs to fix privilege escalation
  • [ELA-1019-2]xorg-server security update for to really fix privilege escalation. As with the DLAs above, the first patches provided by upstream did not really solve the problem, so here we are in round 2
  • [ELA 1027-1] libde265 security update for three CVEs in Stretch to fix heap buffer or global buffer overflows

Last but not least I also did two weeks of frontdesk duties.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded a package to fix bugs:

  • … cups/Bookworm to fix a bug related to color printing
  • … hplip to fix a bug related to /usr-merge

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded a package to fix bugs:

Other stuff

This month I uploaded new upstream version of packages, did a source upload for the transition or uploaded it to fix one or the other issue:

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My Debian Activities in November 2023

FTP master

This month I accepted 276 and rejected 25 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 276. I also handled several RM bugs, so the archive did not grow that much :-).

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-thirteenth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [DLA 3670-1] minizip security update for one CVE to fix an integer overflow
  • [DLA 3673-1] gst-plugins-bad1.0 security update for one CVEs to fix an use-after-free
  • [#1056934] Bookworm PU-bug for libde265
  • [#1056935] Bullseye PU-bug for libde265
  • [#1056737] Bookworm PU-bug for minizip
  • [#1056738] Bullseye PU-bug for minizip
  • [libde265] sponsor upload to unstable
  • [zlib] all CVEs could be marked as not-affected

The update of libde265 was a bit unusual this time. The security tracker had three CVEs listed for it and the maintainer was looking for a sponsor to fix them in Unstable. So far, so good! I sponsored the upload and suddenly a fourth CVE appeared in the security tracker. As the debian/changelog mentioned a different CVE, it was automatically added. Indeed upstreams changelog contained a patch for a CVE that was reserved but not yet published (hence the security tracker could not connect it to libde265). I informed upstream and as things turned out marking the CVE as public was just forgotten. Luckily there was some time left for the upcoming point release and all four patches finally arrived in Bookworm.

Debian ELTS

This month was the sixty-fourth ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [ELA-1004-1] libde265 update in Jessie and Stretch for three CVEs. The issues are related to segmentation faults and bufferf overflows in different functions, which might result in DoS.
  • [ELA-1006-1] libde265 update in Jessie and Stretch for one CVE. This issue is related to an buffer over read which might result in an information leak or denial of service when processing crafted H.265 files
  • [ELA-1010-1 ]minizip update in Stretch for one CVE. This issue was related to a heap-based buffer overflow.
  • [ELA-1015-1] gst-plugins-bad1.0 update in Jessie and Stretch for one CVEs to fix a use-after-free of some pointers within the MXF demuxer.

In order to check whether the patch for the standalone version of minizip was ok, I used a test from the embedded minizip version in chromium and it worked.

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded a new upstream version of:

Within the context of preserving old printing packages, I adopted:

If you know of any other package that is also needed and still maintained by the QA team, please tell me.

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded a new upstream version of:

Debian IoT

This month I uploaded a new upstream version of:

Debian Mobcom

This month I uploaded a package to fix one or the other issue:

Other stuff

This month I uploaded new upstream version of packages, did a source upload for the transition or uploaded it to fix one or the other issue:

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My Debian Activities in October 2023

FTP master

This month I accepted 361 and rejected 34 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 362.

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-twelfth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [DLA 3615-1] libcue security update for one CVE to fix an out-of-bounds array access
  • [DLA 3631-1] xorg-server security update for two CVEs. These were embargoed issues related to privilege escalation
  • [DLA 3633-1] gst-plugins-bad1.0 security update for three CVEs to fix possible DoS or arbitrary code execution when processing crafted media files.
  • [1052361]bookworm-pu: the upload has been done and processed for the point release
  • [1052363]bullseye-pu: the upload has been done and processed for the point release

Unfortunately upstream still could not resolve whether the patch for CVE-2023-42118 of libspf2 is valid, so no progress happened here.
I also continued to work on bind9 and try to understand why some tests fail.

Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties and took part in the LTS meeting.

Debian ELTS

This month was the sixty-third ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [ELA-978-1]cups update in Jessie and Stretch for two CVEs. One issue is related to missing boundary checks which might lead to code execution when using crafted postscript documents. The other issue is related to unauthorized access to recently printed documents.
  • [ELA-990-1]xorg-server update in Jessie and Stretch for two CVEs. These were embargoed issues related to privilege escalation.
  • [ELA-993-1]gst-plugins-bad1.0 update in Jessie and Stretch for three CVEs to fix possible DoS or arbitrary code execution when processing crafted media files.

I also continued to work on bind9 and as with the version in LTS, I try to understand why some tests fail.

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

Debian Printing

This month I uploaded a new upstream version of:

Within the context of preserving old printing packages, I adopted:

If you know of any other package that is also needed and still maintained by the QA team, please tell me.

I also uploaded new upstream version of packages or uploaded a package to fix one or the other issue:

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Debian Mobcom

This month I uploaded a package to fix one or the other issue:

  • … osmo-pcu The bug was filed by Helmut and was related to /usr-merge

Other stuff

This month I uploaded new upstream version of packages, did a source upload for the transition or uploaded it to fix one or the other issue:

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My Debian Activities in August 2023

FTP master

This month I accepted 347 and rejected 39 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 349.

Debian LTS

This was my hundred-tenth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. 

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [DLA 3548-1] qpdf security update for three CVEs
  • [DLA 3549-1] ring security update for 20 CVEs

The open CVE for ffmpeg was already fixed in a previous upload and could be marked as such.
I also started to work on amanda and did some work on security-master.

Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties and took part in the LTS meeting.

Debian ELTS

This month was the sixty-first ELTS month. During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [ELA-927-1]ffmpeg update in Stretch for one CVE
  • [ELA-932-1]openssl1.0 update in Stretch for eight CVEs

Yeah, finally openssl1.0 was uploaded!

I also started to work on amanda, but for whatever reason the package does not build in my chroot. Why do I always choose the packages with quirks?

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

debian-printing

This month I tried to update package hplip. Unfortunately upstream added some new compressed files that need to appear uncompressed in the package. Even though this sounded like an easy task, which seemed to be already implemented in the current debian/rules, the new type of files broke this implementation and made the package no longer buildable. There is also an RC-bug waiting that needs some love. I still hope to upload the package soon.

This work is generously funded by Freexian!

Other stuff

Unfortunately $job demanded lots of attention this month, so I only uploaded:

Due to the recent license change of Hashicorp, I am no longer willing to spend time working on their products. I therefore filed RM-bugs for golang-github-hashicorp-go-gcp-common, golang-github-hashicorp-go-tfe, golang-github-hashicorp-go-slug and golang-github-hashicorp-terraform-json.
As there seemed to be others involved in golang-github-hashicorp-terraform-svchost and golang-github-hashicorp-go-azure-helpers, I only orphaned both packages.

I hope OpenTF will be successful!