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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.

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.

7 July 2018

Import git repository from alioth-archive.debian.org to salsa.debian.org

All repositories that had not been migrated before the shutdown of alioth are still available at the alioth archive. There you can find a compressed tarfile of the bare repository.

So to move such a repository to salsa …

… create the new repository on salsa
… download your file from alioth-archive
wget https://alioth-archive.debian.org/git/debian-iot/duktape.git.tar.xz
… unpack it
tar -Jxf duktape.git.tar.xz
… cd to your bare repository
cd duktape.git
… push your repository to salsa
git push --mirror git@salsa.debian.org:debian-iot-team/duktape.git

Voila, your new repository is ready to be used.

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 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 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.

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.

2 April 2018

My Debian Activities in March 2018

FTP master

This month I accepted 252 packages and rejected 23 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 308.

I also took care of #890944.

Debian LTS

This was my forty 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 23.25h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

I also prepared a test package for wireshark, fixing 12 CVEs. I am still waiting for feedback :-).

The issues for mupdf did not affect Wheezy, so there has been no DLA. Instead the security team accepted my debdiff for Jessie and Stretch and published a DSA. Thanks to Luciano for doing this.
As it turned out, the patch I found for icu last month had been the correct one. But as it did not affect Wheezy, there has been no DLA as well.

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

Other stuff

During march I did uploads of …

… libctl to fix a FTBFS during binary-indep-only build

I also moved all oauth2 related packages as well as cd5 to salsa.

Last but not least I took care of some old bugs in apcupsd that no longer seem to be relevant.

4 March 2018

My Debian Activities in February 2018

FTP master

This month everything came back to normal and I accepted 272 packages and rejected 30 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 423.

Debian LTS

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

[DLA 1279-1] clamav security update for two CVEs
[DLA 1286-1] quagga security update for three CVEs
[DLA 1290-1] libvpx security update for one CVE
[DSA 4125-1] wavpack security update for three Jessie CVEs and three Stretch CVEs

The issues for wavpack did not affect Wheezy, so there has been no DLA. Instead the security team accepted my debdiff for Jessie and Stretch and published a DSA. Thanks to Sebastien for doing this.
I also started to work on a fix for ICU. Unfortunately Moritz did not agree with me on the correct patch for this. As upstream did not respond to my query yet, I did not do an upload.
I also did not finish my work on opencv, I am still searching for the correct C++ template. On the other hand I finished work on 12 of 22 CVEs for wireshark. The rest will be done in March.

Other stuff

During February I uploaded new upstream versions of …

… dateutils
… libctl
… mpb

I also moved all alljoyn packages as well as a56 to salsa.

5 February 2018

My Debian Activities in January 2018

FTP master

This month I was distracted from NEW by private stuff, so I only accepted 141 packages and rejected 4 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 361.

Almost two years ago Moritz filed #817286. After some time of inactivity, this bug draw CIP’s attention. Civil Infrastructure Platform is a project under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation. Their basic goal is to provide security support for a very long time (10 years for software and 15 years for the kernel).

As this bugs meets one of their goals, they would like to support Debian and are going to sponsor my work on this bug. So hopefully in the near future staging repositories will be available in Debian.

Debian LTS

This was my forty 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 18.25h. During that time I did LTS uploads of:

[DLA 1235-1] opencv security update for two CVEs
[DLA 1252-1] couchdb security update for two CVEs
[DLA 1255-1] bind9 security update one CVE
[DLA 1258-1] wireshark security update for three CVEs
[DSA 4101-1] wireshark security update for three Jessie CVEs and three Stretch CVEs
[DLA 1263-1] curl security update one CVE

Unfortunately my debdiffs for opencv have not yet been processed by the security team. But as I also started to work on another round of CVEs for opencv, there will be another chance …

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

Other stuff

During January I uploaded new upstream versions of …

… hoel
… ulfius
… yder
… libjwt
… orcania
… glewlwyd
… gnupg-pkcs11-scd