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6 January 2019

My Debian Activities in December 2018

FTP master

This month I accepted 276 packages, which is bit more than two months before. On the other side I rejected 34 uploads, which is the same as last month. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 442.

Debian LTS

This was my fifty 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 30h. This was the first month were I did not upload any package, but only prepared a wireshark package for testing. It is available at people.d.o and contains patches for 31 CVEs. As lots of dissectors are affected, I would be very glad if others could have a look at it.

I also started to work on CVEs of exiv2 and krb5.

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the seventh ELTS month.

During my allocated time I prepared a wireshark package for testing. It is also available at people.d.o and contains patches for 26 CVEs. As with the LTS version I would be very glad if others could have a look at it.

I also started to work on CVEs of krb5.

As like in LTS, I also did some days of frontdesk duties.

Other stuff

I improved packaging of …

I uploaded new upstream versions of …

Thanks to all the people that tested the meep and mpb packages and filed bugs. I am now trying to clean up the mess :-). At least my packages no longer depend on guile-2.0!

I didn’t have to sponsor package for Nicolas Mora anymore. He finally became a DM and I gave him upload rights for his packages. So now he can take care of his stuff on his own :-).
The next sponsee is Tommi HÃ¶ynÃ¤lÃ¤nmaa. Initially he wanted to have theme-d and theme-d-gnome in Debian. Due to dependencies being orphaned and RC buggy he now has to take care of …

He is really doing a nice job.

The Debian Med Advent Calendar was again really successful this year. There was no new record, but with 81, a fair number of bugs could have been closed.

year	number of bugs closed
2011	63
2012	28
2013	73
2014	5
2015	150
2016	95
2017	105
2018	81

Well done everybody who participated, especially Andreas Tille who closed by far the most bugs!

2 December 2018

My Debian Activities in November 2018

FTP master

This month I accepted 486 packages, which is twice as much as last month. On the other side I was a bit reluctant and rejected only 38 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 556.

Debian LTS

This was my fifty 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 30h. During that time I did LTS uploads or prepared security uploads of:

[DLA 1574-1] imagemagick security update for one CVE
[DLA 1586-1] openssl security update for two CVEs
[DLA 1587-1] pixman security update for one CVE
[DLA 1594-1] xml-security-c security update for one (temporary) CVE
[DLA 1595-1] gnuplot5 security update for three CVEs
[DLA 1597-1] gnuplot security update for three CVEs
[DLA 1602-1] nsis security update two CVEs

Thanks to Markus Koschany for testing my openssl package. It is really having a calming effect when a different pair of eyes has a quick look and does not start to scream.

I also started to work on the new CVEs of wireshark.

My debdiff of tiff was used by Moritz to doublecheck his and Lazlos work, and finally resulted in DSA 4349-1. Though not every debdiff will result in its own DSA , they are still useful for the security team. So always think of Stretch when you do a DLA.

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the sixth ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

ELA-58-1 for tiff3
ELA-59-1 for openssl
ELA-60-1 for pixman

I also started to work on the new CVEs of wireshark.

As like in LTS, I also did some days of frontdesk duties.

Other stuff

I improved packaging of …

… libctl by finally moving to guile-2.2. Though guile-2.0 might not disappear completely in Buster, this is my first step to make it happen
… mdns-scan
… libjwt

I uploaded new upstream versions of …

… mpb and also moved this package to guile-2.2
… openoverlayrouter
… pywws

Again I to sponsored some packages for Nicolas Mora. This time it were some dependencies for his new project taliesin, a lightweight audio media server with a REST API interface and a React JS client application. I am already anxious to give it a try :-).

As it is again this time of the year, I would also like to draw some attention to the Debian Med Advent Calendar. Like the past years, the Debian Med team starts a bug squashing event from the December 1st to 24th. Every bug that is closed will be registered in the calendar. So instead of taking something from the calendar, this special one will be filled and at Christmas hopefully every Debian Med related bug is closed. Donâ€™t hestitate, start to squash :-).

3 November 2018

My Debian Activities in October 2018

FTP master

This month I accepted 211 packages, which is almost the same amount as last month. On the other side I was a bit reluctant and rejected only 36 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 370.

Debian LTS

This was my fifty 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 30h. During that time I did LTS uploads or prepared security uploads of:

[DLA 1555-1] libmspack security update for two CVEs
[DLA 1556-1] paramiko security update for two CVEs
[DLA 1557-1] tiff security update for three CVEs
[DLA 1558-1] ruby2.1 security update for two CVEs
[DSA 4325-1] mosquitto security update for four CVEs
#912159 for libmspack and two CVEs in Stretch

I could also mark all emerging CVEs of wireshark as not affected for Jessie. I prepared a debdiff for ten CVEs affecting tiff in Stretch and sent it to the security team and the maintainer. Unfortunately it did not result in an upload yet.

I also worked on imagemagick and expect an upload soon.

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the fifth ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

ELA-52-1 for net-snmp

There was also one CVE for the python package requests, that could be marked as not-affected. The version in Wheezy did contain the correct code, whereas later versions contained the issue.

As like in LTS, I worked on wireshark (marking all CVEs as not-affected for Wheezy) and tiff3, but did not do an upload yet.

Moreover this was a strange month related to the packages I selected for work. So please everybody check twice whether to add an entry to ela-needed.txt.

As like in LTS, I also did some days of frontdesk duties.

Other stuff

I uploaded new upstream versions of …

… dateutils

Further I continued to sponsor some glewlwyd packages for Nicolas Mora. From my point of view he should become a DM now, so he started his NM process.

2 October 2018

My Debian Activities in September 2018

FTP master

As promised in an earlier post, I raised the number of accepted packages to 215, as well as the number of rejects to 69 this month. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 314.

Debian LTS

This was my fifty 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 29.25h. During that time I did LTS uploads or prepared security uploads of:

I also sent a debdiff for wireshark in Stretch to the security team. They decided to use a newer version in Wireshark for Stretch. Maybe it would be a good idea to upload that version to Jessie as well.

Further I worked on an update for symfony, where I could mark most CVE as not-affected for Jessie. Still four CVEs are remaining and I am going to create patches for them. As opposed to this the CVEs for radare2 could be all marked as not-affected for Jessie.

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

I am not sure whether this is a general trend or whether this is just related to the packages I choose. Compared with LTS for Wheezy more packages in Jessie have some kind of software test. Generally speaking this is a very good trend as one can feel more certain that any kind of patch does not break the software. On the other hand this also doubles the effort to backport patches for older versions of the software. One has to backport not only the patch itself but also the corresponding tests. Especially as the test framework develops as fast as the software and everybody wants to use their own invention.

Debian ELTS

This month was the fourth ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

ELA-44-1 for suricata
ELA-46-1 for libxml2
ELA-47-1 for python2.7
ELA-48-1 for python2.6

As like in LTS, I also did some days of frontdesk duties.

Other stuff

I improved packaging of …

… httperf and moved the repo to salsa
… libdontdie and moved the repo to salsa
… pipexec and moved the repo to salsa
… gnupg-pkcs11-scd

The DOPOM (Debian Orphaned Package Of the Month) of this month has been arpalert.

I also became member of the varnish-team and will try to help packaging varnish

Further I continued to sponsor some glewlwyd packages for Nicolas Mora.

1 September 20181 September 2018

My Debian Activities in August 2018

FTP master

This month was again dominated by warm weather and spending time outside is more enjoyable than spending time in NEW. So I only accepted 177 packages and rejected 2 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 400. Unfortunately it is becoming cold outside, so expect more REJECTS!

Debian LTS

This was my fiftieth 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 23.75h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

I also sent a debdiff for libgit2 in Stretch to the security team, which was not yet processed.

This month it was not that hard to understand the patches, but I had to struggle with different testing frameworks. One always crashed due to API changes and one made funny things when run as root. Nevertheless I am still glad about software that does at least some kind of testing!

Anyway, I also started looking at the CVEs of suricata and symfony and I am afraid it is not going to be easier …

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the third ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

ELA-25-1 for libcgroup
ELA-26-1 for libxcursor
ELA-31-1 for bind9
ELA-33-1 for libtirpc

As like in LTS, I also did some days of frontdesk duties.

Other stuff

I uploaded a new upstream version of …

… libctl to experimental
… mpb to experimental
… gcal to unstable
… duktape to unstable
… scheme48 to unstable
… dateutils to unstable

.. and fixed a lot of bugs.

I improved packaging of …

… osmo-iuh

The DOPOM (Debian Orphaned Package Of the Month) of this month has been mdns-scan. As it was abandoned by upstream, I intend to become that as well.

4 August 2018

My Debian Activities in July 2018

FTP master

This month was dominated by warm weather and I spent more time in a swimming pool than in the NEW queue. So I only accepted 149 packages and rejected 5 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 380.

Debian LTS

This was my forty 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 30.00h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

Further I started to work on libgit and fuse. Last but not least I did some days of frontdesk duties.

Debian ELTS

This month was the second ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

ELA-23-1 for wireshark
ELA-24-1 for fuse

I also tried to work on qemu but had to confess that those CVEs are far beyond my capabilities. Luckily qemu is no longer on the list of supported packages for ELTS. As there seemed to be some scheduling difficulties I stepped in and did 1.5 weeks of frontdesk duties.

Other stuff

This month I uploaded new packages of

… pywws, a software to obtain data from some wheather stations
… osmo-msc, a software from Osmocom

Further I continued to sponsor some glewlwyd packages for Nicolas Mora.

I also uploaded a new upstream version of …

… osmo-iuh to experimental
… osmo-mgw to experimental
… osmo-bts to experimental
… duktape
… openoverlayrouter

I improved packaging of …

and fixed some bugs in …

… openzwave, especially an FTBFS with gcc8
… alljoyn-core-1504, especially an FTBFS with gcc8
… alljoyn-core-1509, especially an FTBFS with gcc8
… alljoyn-core-1604, especially an FTBFS with gcc8

The DOPOM (Debian Orphaned Package Of the Month) of this month has been sockstat. As there was a BUG about IPv6 support and upstream doesn’t seem to be active anymore, I revived it on github.

5 July 2018

My Debian Activities in June 2018

FTP master

This month I accepted 166 packages and rejected only 7 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 216.

Debian LTS

This was my forty 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 23.75h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

[DLA 1404-1] lava-server security update for one CVE
[DLA 1403-1] zendframework security update for one CVE
[DLA 1409-1] mosquitto security update for two CVE
[DLA 1408-1] simplesamlphp security update for two CVE

I also prepared a test package for slurm-llnl but got no feadback yet *hint* *hint*.

This month has been the end of Wheezy LTS and the beginning of Jessie LTS. After asking Ansgar, I did the reconfiguration of the upload queues on seger to remove the embargoed queue for Jessie and reduce the number of supported architectures.

Further I started to work on opencv.

Unfortunately the normal locking mechanism for work on packages by claiming the package in dla-needed.txt did not really work during the transition. As a result I worked on libidn and mercurial parallel to others. There seems to be room for improvement for the next transition.

Last but not least I did one week of frontdesk duties.

Debian ELTS

This month was the first ELTS month.

During my allocated time I made the first CVE triage in my week of frontdesk duties, extended the check-syntax part in the ELTS security tracker and uploaded:

ELA-3-1 for file
ELA-4-1 for openssl

Other stuff

During June I continued the libosmocore transition but could not finish it. I hope I can upload all missing packages in July.

Further I continued to sponsor some glewlwyd packages for Nicolas Mora.

The DOPOM package for this month was dvbstream.

I also upload a new upstream version of …

… libctl to experimental

7 June 2018

My Debian Activities in May 2018

FTP master

This month I accepted 304 packages and rejected 20 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 420.

Debian LTS

This was my forty seventh 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 24.25h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

I continued to work on the bunch of wireshark CVEs and sorted all out that did not affect Jessie or Stretch. At the end I sent my dediff with patches for 20 Jessie CVEs and 38 CVES for Stretch to Moritz so that he could compare them with his own work. Unfortunately he didn’t use all of them.

The CVEs for krb5 were marked as no-dsa by the security team, so there was no upload for Wheezy. Building the package for cups was a bit annoying as the test suite didn’t want to run in the beginning.

I also tested the apache2 package from Roberto twice and let the package do a second round before the final upload.

Last but not least I did a week of frontdesk duties and prepared my new working environment for Jessie LTS and Wheezy ELTS.

Other stuff

During May I did uploads of …

… libmatthew-java to fix a FTBFS with Java 9 due to a disappearing javah. In the end it resulted in a new upstream version.

I also prepared the next libosmocore transistion by uploading several osmocom packages to experimental. This has to continue in June.

Further I sponsored some glewlwyd packages for Nicolas Mora. He is right on his way to become a Debian Maintainer.

Last but not least I uploaded the new package libterm-readline-ttytter-per, which is needed to bring readline functionality to oysttyer, a command line twitter client.

7 June 20187 June 2018

My Debian Activities in May 2018

FTP master

This month I accepted 304 packages and rejected 20 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 420.

Debian LTS

This was my forty seventh 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 24.25h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

I also tested the apache2 package from Roberto twice and let the package do a second round before the final upload.

Last but not least I did a week of frontdesk duties and prepared my new working environment for Jessie LTS and Wheezy ELTS.

Other stuff

During May I did uploads of …

… libmatthew-java to fix a FTBFS with Java 9 due to a disappearing javah. In the end it resulted in a new upstream version.

I also prepared the next libosmocore transistion by uploading several osmocom packages to experimental. This has to continue in June.

Further I sponsored some glewlwyd packages for Nicolas Mora. He is right on his way to become a Debian Maintainer.

Last but not least I uploaded the new package libterm-readline-ttytter-per, which is needed to bring readline functionality to oysttyer, a command line twitter client.

6 May 2018

My Debian Activities in April 2018

FTP master

This month I accepted 145 packages and rejected 5 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 260.

Debian LTS

This was my forty 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 16.25h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

I also started to work on the next bunch of wireshark CVEs and I intend to upload packages for Jessie and Stretch as well.
Other packages I started are krb5 and cups.

Last but not least I did a week of frontdesk duties, where I check lots of CVEs for their impact on Wheezy.

Other stuff

During April I did uploads of …

… pescetti to fix a FTBFS with Java 9 due to -source/-target only
… salliere to fix a FTBFS with Java 9 due to -source/-target only
… libb64 to fix a FTCBFS
… chktex to fix a FTBFS with TeX Live 2018

Thanks to all the people who sent patches!

I also finished the libosmocore transistion this month by uploading the following osmocom packages to unstable and alongside fixing some bugs that our tireless QA tools detected:

Further I uploaded osmo-fl2k already two days after release. It is a nice software that enables an USB-VGA converter to be used as transmitter for all kind of signals. Of course just use it in a shielded room!

As Nicolas Mora, the upstream author of the oauth2 server glewlwyd, wanted to be more involved in Debian packaging, I sponsored some of his first packages. They are all new versions of his software:

… orcania
… ulfius
… yder
… hoel

I also uploaded a new upstream version of dateutils.

Last but not least I worked on some apcupsd bugs and I am down to 16 bugs now.