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My Debian Activities in September 2022

FTP master

This month I accepted 226 and rejected 33 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 232.

All in all I addressed about 60 RM-bugs and either simply removed the package or added a moreinfo tag. In total I spent 5 hours for this task.

Anyway, I have to repeat my comment from last month: please have a look at the removal page and check whether the created dak command is really what you wanted. It would also help if you check the reverse dependencies and write a comment whether they are important or can be ignored or also file a new bug for them. Each removal must have one bug!

Debian LTS

This was my ninety-ninth 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 14h.

During that time I uploaded:

  • [DLA 3111-1] mod-wsgi security update for one CVE
  • [#1020596] bullseye-pu: mod-wsgi/4.7.1-3+deb11u1
  • [DLA 3119-1] expat security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 3125-1] libvncserver security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 3126-1] libsndfile security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 3127-1] libhttp-daemon-perl security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 3130-1] tinyxml security update for one CVE

I also started to work on frr.

Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties and took care of issues on security-master.

Debian ELTS

This month was the fiftieth ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [ELA-685-1] ntfs-3g security update of Stretch for eight CVE
  • [ELA-686-1] expat security update of Jessie and Stretch for one CVE
  • [ELA-690-1] libvncserver security update of Stretch for one CVE

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

Debian Printing

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

Debian IoT

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

Debian Mobcom

This month I started another upload session for new upstrea versions:

Other stuff

This month I uploaded new packages:

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My Debian Activities in August 2022

FTP master

This month I accepted 375 and rejected 25 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 386.

I also had a closer look at the RM-bugs. All in all I addressed about 90 of them and either simply removed the package or added a moreinfo tag. In total I spent 13 hours for this task.

Anyway, if you want to have your RM-bug processed in a timely manner, please have a look at the removal page and check whether the created dak command is really what you wanted. It would also help if you check the reverse dependencies and write a comment whether they are important or can be ignored or also file a new bug for them. Each removal must have one bug!

Debian LTS

This was my ninety-eighth 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 30.00h. As I started to become a Freexian collaborator in this month, I only worked 17h on the LTS project.

During that time I uploaded:

  • [#1010380] buster-pu: flac/1.3.2-3+deb10u2, upload
  • [#1009076] buster-pu: minidlna/1.2.1+dfsg-2+deb10u3, upload
  • [#1009251] buster-pu: fribidi/1.0.5-3.1+deb10u2, upload
  • [#1008578] buster-pu: golang-github-russellhaering-goxmldsig/0.0~git20170911.b7efc62-1+deb10u1, upload
  • [#1016391] bullseye-pu: libhttp-daemon-perl/6.12-1+deb11u1, upload
  • [DLA 3088-1] net-snmp security update for six CVEs
  • [unstable] mod-wsgi for one CVE

I also started to work on upx-ucl.

Debian ELTS

This month was the forty-ninth ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • [ELA-655-1] libhttp-daemon-perl security update of Jessie and Stretch for one CVE
  • [ELA-659-1] mod-wsgi security update of Stretch for one CVE
  • [ELA-667-1] gst-plugins-good1.0 security update of Jessie and Stretch for seven CVEs
  • [ELA-668-1] net-snmp security update of Jessie and Stretch for six CVEs

Debian Printing

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

Debian Astro

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

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My Debian Activities in June 2022

FTP master

This month I accepted 305 and rejected 59 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 310.

From time to time I am also looking at the list of packages to be removed. If you would like to make life easier for the people who remove packages, please make sure that the resulting dak command really makes sense. If this command consists of garbage, please adapt the Subject: of your bug report accordingly.

Also it does not make sense to file bugs to remove packages from NEW. Please don’t hesitate to close such bugs again …

Debian LTS

This was my ninety-sixth 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 30.25h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of:

  • [DLA 3058-1] libsndfile security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 3060-1] blender security update for three CVEs
  • [#1008577] bullseye-pu: golang-github-russellhaering-goxmldsig/1.1.0-1+deb11u1 package has been accepted
  • [#1009077] bullseye-pu: minidlna/1.3.0+dfsg-2+deb11u1 package has been accepted
  • upload of blender to buster-security, no DSA yet
  • upload of blender to bullseye-security, no DSA yet, this upload seems to have failed 🙁

I have to admit that I totally ignored the EOL of Stretch LTS, so my upload of ncurses needs to go to Stretch ELTS now.

This month I also moved/refactored the current LTS documentation to a new repository and started to move the LTS Wiki as well.

I also continued to work on security support for golang packages.

Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties and took care of issues on security-master.

At this point I also need to mention my first “business trip”. I drove the short distance between Chemnitz and Freiberg and met Anton to have a face to face talk about LTS/ELTS. It was a great pleasure and definitely more fun than a meeting on IRC.

Debian ELTS

This month was the forty-seventh ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELS-629-1 for libsndfile

Due to the delay of my ncurses upload to Stretch LTS, the ELTS upload got delayed as well. Now I will do both uploads to ELTS in July.

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

Debian Printing

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

Debian Astro

As there has been a new indi release arriving in Debian, I uploaded new upstream versions of most of the indi-3rdparty packages. Don’t hesitate to tell me whether you really use one of them :-).

Other stuff

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

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My Debian Activities in May 2022

FTP master

This month I accepted 288 and rejected 45 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 290.

Debian LTS

This was my ninety-fifth 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 3029-1] cups security update for one embargoed CVE
  • [DLA 3028-1] atftp security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 3030-1] zipios++ security update for one CVE
  • [DSA-5149-1] cups security update in Buster and Bullseye
  • [#1008577] bullseye-pu: golang-github-russellhaering-goxmldsig/1.1.0-1+deb11u1 debdiff was approved and package uploaded
  • [#1009077] bullseye-pu: minidlna/1.3.0+dfsg-2+deb11u1 debdiff was approved and package uploaded
  • [#1009250] bullseye-pu: fribidi/1.0.8-2+deb11u1 debdiff was approved and package uploaded

Further I continued working on libvirt and started to work on blender and ncurses.

I also continued to work on security support for golang packages.

Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties and took care of issues on security-master.

Debian ELTS

This month was the forty-seventh ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELS-618-1 for openldap

I also moved/refactored the current ELTS documentation to a new repository.

Further I started to work on blender and ncurses in ELTS as well as in LTS.

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

Debian Printing

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

The reason for the new upstream version of ipp-usb was a strange bug. Some HP printers claim to have fax support but fail to respond to corresponding IPP queries. I understand that nowadays sending a fax is no longer a main theme for quality assurance. But if one tries to advertise as much features as possible, all these features should basically work and not prevent the things a printer should normally do.

The reason for the new upstream version of cups was a security issue. You now should have the latest version of cups installed (there have been updates in other Debian releases as well).

Debian Astro

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

Other stuff

This month I uploaded new packages:

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My Debian Activities in April 2022

FTP master

This month I accepted 186 and rejected 26 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 188.

Debian LTS

This was my ninety-fourth 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 2973-1] minidlna security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2974-1] fribidi security update for three CVEs
  • [DLA 2988-1] tinyxml security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2987-1] libarchive security update for three CVEs
  • [#1009076] buster-pu: minidlna/1.2.1+dfsg-2+deb10u3
  • [#1009077] bullseye-pu: minidlna/1.3.0+dfsg-2+deb11u1
  • [#1009251] buster-pu: fribidi/1.0.5-3.1+deb10u2
  • [#1009250] bullseye-pu: fribidi/1.0.8-2+deb11u1
  • [#1010380] buster-pu: flac/1.3.2-3+deb10u2

Further I worked on libvirt, the dependency problems in unstable have been resolved and fixing in other releases can continue.

I also continued to work on security support for golang packages.

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the forty-siyth ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELA-591-1 for minidlna
  • ELA-592-1 for fribidi
  • ELA-602-1 for tinyxml
  • ELS-603-1 for libarchive

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

Debian Printing

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

As I already became the maintainer of usb-modeswitch I also adopted usb-modeswitch-data

Debian Astro

Unfortunately I didn’t do anything for this group, but in May I will upload a new version of openvlbi and several indi-3rdparty packages.

Other stuff

Last but not least I uploaded several new upstream version of golang packages but not before checking with ratt that all dependencies still work.

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My Debian Activities in March 2022

FTP master

This month I accepted 332 and rejected 15 packages. This ratio gives a reason to hope. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 342.

Debian LTS

This was my ninety-third 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 2932-1] tiff security update for three CVEs
  • [DLA 2931-1] cyrus-sasl2 security for one CVE
  • [DLA 2966-1] libgc security update for one CVE
  • [#1006493] bullseye-pu: htmldoc debdiff was approved and package uploaded
  • [#1006493] buster-pu: htmldoc debdiff was approved and package uploaded
  • [#1007938] buster-pu: cups/2.2.10-6+deb10u5
  • [#1007938] buster-pu: cups debdiff was approved and package uploaded
  • [#1008577] bullseye-pu: golang-github-russellhaering-goxmldsig/1.1.0-1+deb11u1
  • [#1008578] buster-pu: golang-github-russellhaering-goxmldsig/0.0~git20170911.b7efc62-1+deb10u1
  • [unstable] minidlna security update for one CVE

All my PU bugs for Buster and Bullseye, that accumulated over the last months, were part of the latest point release. So new ones have to be created now :-).

I also continued to work on security support for golang packages. As a result #1008577 and #1008578 were the first real tests with a simple package.

Debian ELTS

This month was the forty-fifth ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELA-573-1 for cyrus-sasl2
  • ELA-589-1 for libgc

Unfortunately uploads have to be done for younger releases first, so I had to withhold some uploads for ELTS. Hopefully they can be done in April. Probably this policy needs to be reconsidered.

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

Debian Printing

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

In order to make the Debian Edu team happy, I uploaded a new version of cups-filters with an adapted Apparmor-file to Unstable and Bullseye.

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:

In order to avoid an AUTORM of some Osmocom packages, I also had to NMU:

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My Debian Activities in January 2022

FTP master

This month I accepted 342 and rejected 57 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 366.

Lately I was asked: Is it ftpmaster’s opinion and policy that there is no difference in NEW queue review process between bin and src?

This is a yes/no-question and in this generality the answer is clearly: Every package in NEW needs a full review.

Of course there are circumstances with exceptions. For example after an upload of -1, which would get a full review, the upload of -2 afterwards, introducing a new binary package, would get a much faster review. In this case it would make sense to ping on IRC and draw attention to this. Nevertheless the evaluation of a “light review” might differ between the maintainer and the person doing the review.

Debian LTS

This was my ninety-first 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 2882-1] sphinxsearch security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2890-1] libspf2 security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 2897-1] apr security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2900-1] lrzsz security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2901-1] libxfont security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2902-1] graphicsmagick security update for one CVE
  • [#1004049] buster-pu: package zziplib/0.13.62-3.2+deb10u1
  • [#1004050] bullseye-pu: package zziplib/0.13.62-3.3+deb11u1
  • [#1004055] buster-pu: package raptor2/2.0.14-1.1~deb10u2

I also started to work on security support for golang packages. Though this sounds like an easy task, the devel is in the details.
As CVEs need to be fixed in unstable first, at the moment it looks like this is the most time consuming task. I will report later on my journey to fix open CVEs in golang-github-russellhaering-goxmldsig

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 and attended an LTS meeting on IRC.

Debian ELTS

This month was the forty-third ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELA-544-1 for libspf2
  • ELA-549-1 for apr
  • ELA-552-1 for lrzsz
  • ELA-553-1 for libxfont

Further I worked on an update for apache2

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

Debian Printing

I was finally able to upload a new version of hplip and Ubuntu is now able to build new snaps for their next release.
Altogether I uploaded new upstream versions or improved packaging of:

Now the dashboard looks rather good and my next task for February is an update of cups.

Debian Astro

As there was a release of version 1.9.4 of INDI and indi-3rdparty, I also uploaded the new version of all INDI drivers and releated libs from indi-3rdparty.

Other stuff

This month I uploaded lots of new upstream releases of golang packages.

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My Debian Activities in November 2021

FTP master

This month I accepted 564 and rejected 93 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 591.

Debian LTS

This was my eighty-ninth 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 2820-1] atftp security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 2821-1] axis security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2822-1] netkit-rsh security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 2825-1] libmodbus security update for two CVEs
  • [#1000408] for libmodbus in Buster
  • [#1000485] for btrbk in Bullseye
  • [#1000486] for btrbk in Buster

I also started to work on pgbouncer to get an update for each release and had to process packages from NEW on security-master.

Further I worked on a script to automatically publish DLAs on the Debian website, that are posted to debian-lts-announce. The script can be found on salsa. It only publishes stuff from people on a whitelist. At the moment it is running on a computer at home. You might run your own copy, or just send me an email to be put on the whitelist as well.

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the forty-first ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELA-517-1 for atftp
  • ELA-519-1 for qtbase-opensource-src
  • ELA-520-1 for libsdl1.2
  • ELA-521-1 for libmodbus

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

Debian Printing

Unfortunately I did not do as much as I wanted this month. At least I looked at some old bugs and uploaded new upstream versions of …

I hope this will improve in December again. New versions of cups and hplip are on my TODO-list.

Debian Astro

This month I uploaded new versions of …

Other stuff

I improved packaging or fixed bugs of:

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My Debian Activities in October 2021

FTP master

This month I accepted 341 and rejected 46 packages. The rejection is as high as last month. I hope everybody is aware that pressing just one key when accepting a package is much faster than writing an explanation why a package has to be rejected. Anyway, the overall number of packages that got accepted was 355.

Debian LTS

This was my eighty-eighth 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 28.5h. During that time I did LTS and normal security uploads of:

  • [DLA 2788-1] strongswan security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2789-1] squashfs-tools security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2792-1] faad2 security update for seven CVEs
  • [DLA 2796-1] jbig2dec security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 2800-1] cups security update for one CVE
  • [#998042] for jbig2dec in Buster

I also continued to work on exiv2.

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the fortieth ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELA-494-1 for curl
  • ELA-497-1 for squashfs-tools
  • ELA-498-1 for openssl
  • ELA-501-1 for faad2
  • ELA-504-1 for jbig2dec
  • ELA-508-1 for cups

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

Debian Printing

I improved packaging or fixed bugs or uploaded a new version of:

Last but not least I looked at some old bugs and checked whether they could be closed.

Debian Astro

Though being a silent member of Debian Astro for a long time, I am now going to be more active now. Most of the time I will be focused on packages for telescope control, but of course I won’t stay away from other topics.

So I uploaded:

If you know of other missing packages, don’t hesitate to tell me!

Other stuff

On my neverending golang challenge I again uploaded some packages either for NEW or as source upload.

I uploaded new upstream versions of:

I improved packaging or fixed bugs of: