My Debian Activities in August 2019

FTP master

This month the numbers went up again and I accepted 389 packages and rejected 43. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 460.

Debian LTS

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

  • [DLA 1887-1] freetype security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 1889-1] python3.4 security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 1893-1] cups security update for two CVEs
  • [DLA 1895-1] libmspack security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 1894-1] libapache2-mod-auth-openidc security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 1897-1] tiff security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 1902-1] djvulibre security update for four CVEs
  • [DLA 1904-1] libextractor security update for one CVE
  • [DLA 1906-1] python2.7 security update for one CVE

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

Debian ELTS

This month was the fifteenth ELTS month.

During my allocated time I uploaded:

  • ELA-155-1 of cups
  • ELA-157-1 of djvulibre
  • ELA-158-1 of python2.7

I spent some time to work on tiff3 only to find that the affected features are not yet available.

I also did some days of frontdesk duties.

Other stuff

This month I uploaded new packages of …

I also uploaded new upstream versions of …

I improved packaging of …

On my Go challenge I uploaded golang-github-gin-contrib-static, golang-github-gin-contrib-cors, golang-github-yourbasic-graph, golang-github-cnf-structhash, golang-github-deanthompson-ginpprof, golang-github-jarcoal-httpmock, golang-github-gin-contrib-gzip, golang-github-mcuadros-go-gin-prometheus, golang-github-abdullin-seq, golang-github-centurylinkcloud-clc-sdk, golang-github-ziutek-mymysql, golang-github-terra-farm-udnssdk, golang-github-ensighten-udnssdk, golang-github-sethvargo-go-fastly.

I again reuploaded some go packages (golang-github-go-xorm-core, golang-github-jarcoal-httpmock, golang-github-mcuadros-go-gin-prometheus, golang-github-deanthompson-ginpprof, golang-github-gin-contrib-cors, golang-github-gin-contrib-gzip, golang-github-gin-contrib-static, golang-github-cyberdelia-heroku-go, golang-github-corpix-uarand, golang-github-cnf-structhash, golang-github-rs-zerolog, golang-gopkg-ldap.v3, golang-github-yourbasic-graph, golang-github-ovh-go-ovh, , that would not migrate due to being binary uploads before.

I also sponsored the following packages: golang-github-jesseduffield-gocui, printrun, cura-engine, theme-d, theme-d-gnome.

The DOPOM package for this month was gengetopt.

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:

    [DLA 1387-1] cups security update for one CVE
    [DLA 1388-1] wireshark security update for 9 CVEs

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.

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:

    [DLA 1387-1] cups security update for one CVE
    [DLA 1388-1] wireshark security update for 9 CVEs

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.

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:

    [DLA 1353-1] wireshark security update for 12 CVEs
    [DLA 1364-1] openslp-dfsg security update for one CVE
    [DLA 1367-1] slurm-llnl security update for one CVE

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:

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.