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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 …

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