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My Debian Activities in November 2020

FTP master

Unfortunately a day only has 24h. As the freeze is approaching, I had to concentrate a bit more on keeping my packages in shape. So this month I only accepted nine packages. The good news, I rejected no package. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 328.

Debian LTS

This was my seventy-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 22.75h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

  • [DLA 2446-1] moin security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 2451-1] libvncserver security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2459-1] golang-1.7 security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 2460-1] golang-1.8 security update for three CVEs
  • [DLA 2468-1] tcpflow security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2469-1] qemu security update for five CVEs

I also started to work on x11vnc and slirp.

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the twenty ninth ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELA-319-1 for libass
  • ELA-320-1 for tcpflow
  • ELA-321-1 for qemu

Unfortunately I also had to give back some hours.

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

Other stuff

This month I uploaded new upstream versions of:

I fixed one or two bugs in:

I improved packaging of:

… and there have been even some new packages:

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. Don’t hesitate, start to squash :-).

The announcement on the mailing list can be found here.

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My Debian Activities in October 2020

FTP master

This month I accepted 208 packages and rejected 29. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 563, so yeah, I was not alone this month :-).

Anyway, this month marked another milestone in my NEW package handling. My overall number of ACCEPTed package exceeded the magic number of 20000 packages. This is almost 30% of all packages accepted in Debian. I am a bit proud of this achievement.

Debian LTS

This was my seventy-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 20.75h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

  • [DLA 2415-1] freetype security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2419-1] dompurify.js security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 2418-1] libsndfile security update for eight CVEs
  • [DLA 2421-1] cimg security update for eight CVEs

I also started to work on golang-1.7 and golang-1.8

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the twenty eighth ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELA-289-2 for python3.4
  • ELA-304-1 for freetype
  • ELA-305-1 for libsndfile

The first upload of python3.4, last month, did not build on armel, so I had to reupload an improved package this month. For amd64 and i386 the ELTS packages are built in native mode, whereas the packages on armel are cross-built. There is some magic in debian/rules of python to detect in which mode the package is built. This is important as some tests of the testsuite are not really working in cross-build-mode. Unfortunately I had to learn this the hard way …

The upload of libsndfile now aligns the number of fixed CVEs in all releases.

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

Other stuff

Despite my NEW-handling and LTS/ELTS stuff I hadn’t much fun with Debian packages this month. Given the approaching freeze, I hope this will change again in November.

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My Debian Activities in September 2020

FTP master

This month I accepted 278 packages and rejected 58. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 304.

Debian LTS

This was my seventy-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 19.75h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

  • [DLA 2382-1] curl security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2383-1] nfdump security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 2384-1] yaws security update for two CVEs

I also started to work on new issues of qemu but had to learn that most of the patches I found have not yet been approved by upstream. So I moved on to python3.5 and cimg. The latter is basically just a header file and I had to find its reverse dependencies to check whether all of them can still be built with the new cimg package. This is still WIP and I hope to upload new versions soon.

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the twenty seventh ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELA-284-1 for curl
  • ELA-288-1 for libxrender
  • ELA-289-1 for python3.4

Like in LTS, I also started to work on qemu and encountered the same problems as in LTS above.
When building the new python packages for ELTS and LTS, I used the same VM and encountered memory problems that resulted in random tests failing. This was really annoying as I spent some time just chasing the wind. So up to now only the LTS package got an update and the ELTS one has to wait for October.

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

Other stuff

This month I only uploaded some packages to fix bugs:

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My Debian Activities in August 2020

FTP master

This month I accepted 159 packages and rejected 16. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 172.

Debian LTS

This was my seventy-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 21.75h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

  • [DLA 2336-1] firejail security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 2337-1] python2.7 security update for nine CVEs
  • [DLA 2353-1] bacula security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2354-1] ndpi security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2355-1] bind9 security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 2359-1] xorg-server security update for five CVEs

I also started to work on curl but did not upload a fixed version yet. As usual, testing the package takes up some time.

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the twenty sixth ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELA-265-1 for python2.7
  • ELA-270-1 for bind9
  • ELA-272-1 for xorg-server

Like in LTS, I also started to work on curl and encountered the same problems as in LTS above.

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

Other stuff

This month I found again some time for other Debian work and uploaded packages to fix bugs, mainly around gcc10:

I also uploaded new upstream versions of:

All package called *osmo* are developed by the Osmocom project, that is about Open Source MObile COMmunication. They are really doing a great job and I apologize that my uploads of new versions are mostly far behind their development.

Some of the uploads are related to new packages:

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My Debian Activities in July 2020

FTP master

This month I accepted 434 packages and rejected 54. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 475.

Debian LTS

This was my seventy-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 25.25h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

  • [DLA 2289-1] mupdf security update for five CVEs
  • [DLA 2290-1] e2fsprogs security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2294-1] salt security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 2295-1] curl security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2296-1] luajit security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2298-1] libapache2-mod-auth-openidc security update for three CVEs

I started to work on python2.7 as well but stumbled over some hurdles in the testsuite, so I did not upload a fixed version yet.

This month was much influenced by the transition from Jessie LTS to Stretch LTS and one or another workflow/script needed some adjustments.

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the twenty fifth ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELA-230-1 for luajit
  • ELA-231-1 for curl

Like in LTS, I also started to work on python2.7 and encountered the same hurdles in the testsuite. So I did not upload a fixed version for ELTS as well.

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

Other stuff

In this section nothing much happened this month. Thanks a lot to everybody who NMUed a package to fix a bug.

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My Debian Activities in June 2020

FTP master

This month I accepted 377 packages and rejected 30. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 411.

Debian LTS

This was my seventy-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 of:

  • [DLA 2255-1] libtasn1-6 security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2256-1] libtirpc security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2257-1] pngquant security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2258-1] zziplib security update for eight CVEs
  • [DLA 2259-1] picocom security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2260-1] mcabber security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2261-1] php5 security update for one CVE

I started to work on curl as well but did not upload a fixed version, so this has to go to ELTS now.

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the twenty fourth ELTS month.

Unfortunately in the last month of Wheezy ELTS even I did not find any package to fix a CVE, so during my small allocated time I didn’t uploaded anything.

But at least I did some days of frontdesk duties und updated my working environment for the new ELTS Jessie.

Other stuff

I uploaded a new upstream version of …

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My Debian Activities in May 2020

FTP master

This month I accepted 211 packages and rejected only 9. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 228.

Debian LTS

This was my seventy-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 17.25h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

  • [DLA 2196-2] pound regression update
  • [DLA 2219-1] feh security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2218-1] transmission security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2220-1] cracklib2 security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2224-1] dosfstools security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 2225-1] gst-plugins-good0.10 security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 2226-1] gst-plugins-ugly0.10 security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 2227-1] bind9 security update for two CVEs

I started to work on php5 as well but did not upload a fixed version yet.

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the twenty third ELTS month.

During my small allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELA-230-1 for bind9 fixing two CVEs
  • ELA-231-1 for php5 fixing one CVE

I also did some days of frontdesk duties.

Other stuff

I improved packaging of …

I sponsored uploads of …

  • … ulfius

On my Go challenge I uploaded:
golang-github-apparentlymart-go-versions, golang-github-hashicorp-go-slug, golang-github-mozillazg-go-httpheader, golang-github-hashicorp-terraform-json, golang-github-hashicorp-terraform-plugin-test, golang-github-sean–pager, golang-github-sean–seed, golang-github-timberio-go-datemath,

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My Debian Activities in April 2020

FTP master

This month I accepted 384 packages and rejected 47. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 457.

Debian LTS

This was my seventieth 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 28.75h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

  • [DLA 2183-1] libgsf security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2184-1] jsch security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2185-1] eog security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2187-1] radicale security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2186-1] ncmpc security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2188-1] php5 security update for three CVEs
  • [DLA 2189-1] rzip security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2195-1] w3m security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 2194-1] yodl security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2197-1] miniupnpc security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2196-1] pound security update for one CVE

As there have been lots of no-dsa-CVEs I continued my work on wireshark.

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the twenty second ELTS month.

During my small allocated time I only uploaded:

  • ELA-227-1 for php5 fixing four CVEs

I also did some days of frontdesk duties.

Other stuff

Unfortunately this month again strange things happened outside Debian and I only got some stuff done.

I improved packaging of …

I sponsored uploads of …

  • … ulfius

I uploaded the new package …

  • … puppet-module-cirrax-gitolite

On my Go challenge I uploaded:
golang-github-facebookgo-subset, golang-github-facebookgo-ensure, golang-github-shurcool-gopherjslib, golang-github-grafana-grafana-plugin-model, golang-github-crewjam-httperr, golang-github-hashicorp-terraform-svchost, golang-github-neelance-sourcemap, golang-github-neelance-astrewrite, golang-github-kisielk-gotool, golang-github-gopherjs-gopherjs, golang-github-yvasiyarov-newrelic-platform-go, golang-github-rhnvrm-simples3, golang-github-robfig-go-cache, golang-github-xorcare-pointer, golang-github-goburrow-serial

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My Debian Activities in March 2020

FTP master

This month I accepted 156 packages and rejected 26. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 203.

Debian LTS

This was my sixty 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 30h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

  • [DLA 2156-1] e2fsprogs security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2157-1] weechat security update for three CVEs
  • [DLA 2160-1] php5 security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 2164-1] gst-plugins-bad0.10 security update for four CVEs
  • [DLA 2165-1] apng2gif security update for one CVE

Also my work on graphicsmagic was accepted which resulted in:

  • [DSA 4640-1] graphicsmagick security update in Buster and Strech for 16 CVEs

Further I sent debdiffs of weechat/stretch, weechat/buster, e2fsprogs/stretch to the corresponding maintainers but got no feedback yet.

As there have been lots of no-dsa-CVEs accumulated for wireshark, I started to work on them but could not upload yet.

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the twenty first ELTS month.

During my really allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELA-218-1 for e2fsprogs
  • ELA-220-1 for php5
  • ELA-221-1 for nss

I also did some days of frontdesk duties.

Other stuff

Unfortunately this month again strange things happened outside Debian and the discussions within Debian did not stop. Nonetheless I got some stuff done.

I improved packaging of …

I sponsored uploads of …

  • … ocf-spec-core
  • … theme-d-gnome

Sorry to all people who also requested sponsoring, but sometimes things happen and your upload might be delayed.

I uploaded new upstream versions of …

On my Go challenge I uploaded:
golang-github-dreamitgetit-statuscake, golang-github-ensighten-udnssdk, golang-github-apparentlymart-go-dump, golang-github-suapapa-go-eddystone, golang-github-joyent-gosdc, golang-github-nrdcg-goinwx, golang-github-bmatcuk-doublestar, golang-github-go-xorm-core, golang-github-svanharmelen-jsonapi, golang-github-goji-httpauth, golang-github-phpdave11-gofpdi

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My Debian Activities in January 2020

FTP master

This month I accepted 264 packages and rejected 56. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 291.

Debian LTS

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

  • [DLA 2075-1] jsoup security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2076-1] slirp security update for one CVE (only upload and bookkeeping, patch prepared by maintainer)
  • [DLA 2080-1] iperf3 security update for one CVE (only upload and bookkeeping, patch prepared by maintainer)
  • [DLA 2082-1] unzip security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 2084-1] graphicsmagick security update for three CVEs
  • [DLA 2085-1] zlib security update for four CVEs
  • [DLA 2086-1] wget security update for one CVE

I also prepared debdiffs for graphicsmagick in Buster (3 CVEs) and Stretch (16 CVEs) but got no review from the security team yet. I marked some CVEs of sqlite3 as not-affected in Jessie and the remaining open ones as no-dsa

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the nineteenth ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELA-207-1 for jsoup
  • ELA-210-1 for unzip
  • ELA-211-1 for wget
  • ELA-212-1 for zlib

I also did some days of frontdesk duties.

Other stuff

This month was controlled by my vacation at the beginning of the year, so not much has happened here.

On my Go challenge I uploaded the new packages:
golang-github-hashicorp-go-gcp-common, golang-github-svanharmelen-jsonapi, golang-github-hashicorp-go-slug, golang-github-apparentlymart-go-dump, golang-github-linkedin-goavro, golang-github-ua-parser-uap-go