My monthly report covers a large part of what I have been doing in the free software world. I write it for my donors (thanks to them!) but also for the wider Debian community because it can give ideas to newcomers and it’s one of the best ways to find volunteers to work with me on projects that matter to me.
Debian LTS
This month I was allocated 12h but I only spent 10h. During this time, I managed the LTS frontdesk during one week, reviewing new security issues and classifying the associated CVE (16 commits to the security tracker).
I prepared and released DLA-1171-1 on libxml-libxml-perl.
I prepared a new update for simplesamlphp (1.9.2-1+deb7u1) fixing 6 CVE. I did not release any DLA yet since I was not able to test the updated package yet. I’m hoping that the the current maintainer can do it since he wanted to work on the update a few months ago.
Distro Tracker
Distro Tracker has seen a high level of activity in the last month. Ville Skyttä continued to contribute a few patches, he helped notably to get rid of the last blocker for a switch to Python 3.
I then worked with DSA to get the production instance (tracker.debian.org) upgraded to stretch with Python 3.5 and Django 1.11. This resulted in a few regressions related to the Python 3 switch (despite the large number of unit tests) that I had to fix.
In parallel Pierre-Elliott Bécue showed up on the debian-qa mailing list and he started to contribute. I have been exchanging with him almost daily on IRC to help him improve his patches. He has been very responsive and I’m looking forward to continue to cooperate with him. His first patch enabled the use “src:” and “bin:” prefix in the search feature to specify if we want to lookup among source packages or binary packages.
I did some cleanup/refactoring work after the switch of the codebase to Python 3 only.
Misc Debian work
Sponsorship. I sponsored many new packages: python-envparse 0.2.0-1, python-exotel 0.1.5-1, python-aws-requests-auth 0.4.1-1, pystaticconfiguration 0.10.3-1, python-jira 1.0.10-1, python-twilio 6.8.2-1, python-stomp 4.1.19-1. All those are dependencies for elastalert 0.1.21-1 that I also sponsored.
I sponsored updates for vboot-utils 0~R63-10032.B-2 (new upstream release for openssl 1.1 compat), aircrack-ng 1:1.2-0~rc4-4 (introducing airgraph-ng package) and asciidoc 8.6.10-2 (last upstream release, tool is deprecated).
Debian Installer. I submitted a few patches a while ago to support finding ISO images in LVM logical volumes in the hd-media installation method. Colin Watson reviewed them and made a few suggestions and expressed a few concerns. I improved my patches to take into account his suggestions and I resolved all the problems he pointed out. I then committed everything to the respective git repositories (for details review #868848, #868859, #868900, #868852).
Live Build. I merged 3 patches for live-build (#879169, #881941, #878430).
Misc. I uploaded Django 1.11.7 to stretch-backports. I filed an upstream bug on zim for #881464.
Thanks
See you next month for a new summary of my activities.
