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Keeping Debian 8 Jessie alive for longer than 5 years

March 11, 2020 by Raphaël Hertzog

Just like we did for Debian 7 Wheezy, some of the paid Debian LTS contributors will continue to maintain Debian 8 Jessie after its 5 years of support as part of Freexian’s Extended LTS service.

This service works differently than regular LTS:

only the packages used by the sponsors are supported;
the updates are provided in an external repository managed by Freexian so that Debian teams can bury Debian 8 Jessie and move on;
the cost of the service for each sponsor is evaluated each semester based on the number of packages that they want to see supported and the number of other sponsors with similar needs;
a limited set of architectures is supported (usually only amd64 and i386, but for Jessie it might be that we end up supporting armel due to a sponsor requesting it).

Some packages will not be supported:

linux 3.16 (instead we will likely continue to maintain the linux-4.9 backport from Debian 9 stretch)
openjdk-7 (its EOL is on June 2020), we might maintain a backport of openjdk-8 if there’s demand for it
tomcat7 will only be supported until its EOL in March 2021
this list might be expanded over time when we discover issues rendering security support infeasible on some packages

If you expect to have Debian 8 servers/devices running after June 30th 2020, and would like to have security updates for them, please get in touch with us. We’re building a list of potential sponsors right now and we expect to provide cost estimations at the end of the month.

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, January 2020

February 21, 2020 by Raphaël Hertzog

A Debian LTS logo Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.

Individual reports

In January, 252 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

Abhijith PA did 10.0h (out of 14h assigned), and gave back 4h to the pool.
Ben Hutchings did 20h (out of 20h assigned).
Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
Dylan Aïssi did 6.5h (out of 8h assigned), thus carrying over 1.5h to February.
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 8h (out of 23.75h assigned), thus carrying over 15.75h to February.
Hugo Lefeuvre did 5.5h (out of 12h assigned) and gave back 6.5h to the pool.
Markus Koschany did 15h (out of 23.75h assigned), thus carrying over 8.75h to February.
Mike Gabriel did 20h (out of 20h assigned).
Ola Lundqvist did 11.5h (out of 8h assigned plus 11.5h from December), and gave back 3.5h, thus carrying over 4.5h to February.
Roberto C. Sánchez did 10.75h (out of 23.75h assigned), thus carrying over 13h to February.
Sylvain Beucler did 23.75h (out of 23.75h assigned).
Thorsten Alteholz did 23.75h (out of 23.75h assigned).
Utkarsh Gupta did 23.75h (out of 23.75h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

January started calm until at the end of the month some LTS contributors met, some for the first time ever, at the Mini-DebCamp preceeding FOSDEM in Brussels. While there were no formal events about LTS at both events, such face2face meetings have proven to be very useful for future collaborations!
We currently have 59 LTS sponsors sponsoring 219h each month. Still, as always we are welcoming new LTS sponsors!

The security tracker currently lists 42 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 33 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold (none this month).

Platinum sponsors:

TOSHIBA (for 53 months)
GitHub (for 43 months)
Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 21 months)

Gold sponsors:

Blablacar (for 68 months)
Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 64 months)
Linode (for 58 months)
Babiel GmbH (for 47 months)
Plat’Home (for 46 months)
University of Oxford (for 3 months)

Silver sponsors:

The Positive Internet Company (for 69 months)
Domeneshop AS (for 68 months)
Nantes Métropole (for 62 months)
Dalenys (for 58 months)
Univention GmbH (for 54 months)
Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 54 months)
Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 48 months)
Exonet B.V. (for 37 months)
Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 31 months)
CINECA (for 21 months)
Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 15 months)
Cloudways Ltd (for 4 months)
Dinahosting SL

Bronze sponsors:

Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 69 months)
Evolix (for 68 months)
MyTux (for 68 months)
Linuxhotel GmbH (for 66 months)
Intevation GmbH (for 65 months)
Daevel SARL (for 64 months)
Bitfolk LTD (for 63 months)
Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 63 months)
Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 62 months)
NUMLOG (for 62 months)
WinGo AG (for 61 months)
Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 57 months)
Sig-I/O (for 55 months)
Entr’ouvert (for 53 months)
Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 50 months)
Tesorion (for 45 months)
GNI MEDIA (for 44 months)
Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 44 months)
Bearstech (for 36 months)
LiHAS (for 36 months)
People Doc (for 32 months)
Catalyst IT Ltd (for 30 months)
Supagro (for 26 months)
Demarcq SAS (for 24 months)
TrapX Security (for 21 months)
Université Grenoble Alpes (for 10 months)
TouchWeb SAS

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, December 2019

January 23, 2020 by Raphaël Hertzog

A Debian LTS logo Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.

Individual reports

In December, 208.00 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

Abhijith PA did 10.0h (out of 10h assigned).
Adrian Bunk did 4.5h (out of 16.5h assigned), thus carrying over 12h to January.
Ben Hutchings did 20.25h (out of 16.5h assigned and 3.75h from November).
Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
Chris Lamb did 16.5h (out of 16.5h assigned).
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did 16.5h (out of 16.5h assigned).
Hugo Lefeuvre did 12h (out of 16.5h assigned), thus carrying over 4.5h to January.
Markus Koschany did 16.5h (out of 16.5h assigned).
Mike Gabriel did 15h (out of 15h assigned).
Ola Lundqvist did 5.5h (out of 8h assigned, so he gave 3.5h back to the pool).
Roberto C. Sánchez did 16.5h (out of 16.5h assigned).
Sylvain Beucler did 16.5h (out of 16.5h assigned).
Thorsten Alteholz did 16.5h (out of 16.5h assigned).
Utkarsh Gupta did 16.5h (out of 16.5h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

Though December was as quiet as to be expected due to the holiday season, the usual amount of security updates were still released by our contributors.
We currently have 59 LTS sponsors each month sponsoring 219h. Still, as always we are welcoming new LTS sponsors!

The security tracker currently lists 34 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 33 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

Platinum sponsors:

TOSHIBA (for 52 months)
GitHub (for 42 months)
Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 20 months)

Gold sponsors:

Blablacar (for 67 months)
Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 63 months)
Linode (for 57 months)
Babiel GmbH (for 46 months)
Plat’Home (for 45 months)
University of Oxford

Silver sponsors:

The Positive Internet Company (for 68 months)
Domeneshop AS (for 67 months)
Nantes Métropole (for 61 months)
Dalenys (for 57 months)
Univention GmbH (for 53 months)
Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 53 months)
Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 47 months)
Exonet B.V. (for 36 months)
Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 30 months)
CINECA (for 20 months)
Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 14 months)
Cloudways Ltd (for 3 months)
Dinahosting SL

Bronze sponsors:

Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 68 months)
Evolix (for 67 months)
MyTux (for 67 months)
Linuxhotel GmbH (for 65 months)
Intevation GmbH (for 64 months)
Daevel SARL (for 63 months)
Bitfolk LTD (for 62 months)
Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 62 months)
Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 61 months)
NUMLOG (for 61 months)
WinGo AG (for 60 months)
Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 57 months)
Sig-I/O (for 54 months)
Entr’ouvert (for 52 months)
Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 49 months)
Tesorion (for 44 months)
GNI MEDIA (for 43 months)
Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 43 months)
Bearstech (for 35 months)
LiHAS (for 35 months)
People Doc (for 31 months)
Catalyst IT Ltd (for 29 months)
Supagro (for 25 months)
Demarcq SAS (for 23 months)
TrapX Security (for 20 months)
Université Grenoble Alpes (for 10 months)
TouchWeb SAS

Freexian’s report about Debian Long Term Support, November 2019

December 17, 2019 by Raphaël Hertzog

A Debian LTS logo Like each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS.

Individual reports

In November, 248.50 work hours have been dispatched among 14 paid contributors. Their reports are available:

Abhijith PA did 8.0h (out of 8h assigned).
Adrian Bunk got no hours assigned and did 18h from previous months.
Ben Hutchings did 21.25h (out of 24.5h assigned and 0.5h from October), thus carrying over 3.75h to December.
Brian May did 10h (out of 10h assigned).
Chris Lamb did 18h (out of 18h assigned).
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort did nothing to compensate for the extra hours that he worked in advance the month before (to finish the required backports for firefox).
Hugo Lefeuvre did 1.75h (out of 24.5h assigned) but gave back the remaining hours.
Markus Koschany did 24.5h (out of 24.5h assigned).
Mike Gabriel did 15.0h (out of 15h assigned).
Ola Lundqvist did 5.5h (out of 8h assigned and 13.5h from October), thus carrying over 16h to December.
Roberto C. Sánchez did 24.5h (out of 24.5h assigned).
Sylvain Beucler did 24.5h (out of 24.5h assigned).
Thorsten Alteholz did 24.5h (out of 24.5h assigned).
Utkarsh Gupta did 18.0h (out of 18h assigned).

Evolution of the situation

November was a quieter month again, most notably ‘#922246: www/lts: if DLA-1234-1 and DLA-1234-2 exist, only that last one shows up in indexes‘ was fixed, so that finally all DLAs show up on www.debian.org as they should.

We currently have 58 LTS sponsors each month sponsoring 215h. This month we are pleased to welcome the University of Oxford, TouchWeb and Dinahosting among our sponsors. It’s particularly interesting to see hosting providers that are creating financial incentives to migrate to newer versions: customers that don’t upgrade have to pay an extra amount which is then partly given back to Debian LTS.

The security tracker currently lists 35 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file has 30 packages needing an update.

Thanks to our sponsors

New sponsors are in bold.

Platinum sponsors:

TOSHIBA (for 50 months)
GitHub (for 41 months)
Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) (for 18 months)

Gold sponsors:

Blablacar (for 66 months)
Roche Diagnostics International AG (for 61 months)
Linode (for 55 months)
Babiel GmbH (for 45 months)
Plat’Home (for 44 months)
University of Oxford

Silver sponsors:

The Positive Internet Company (for 67 months)
Domeneshop AS (for 66 months)
Nantes Métropole (for 60 months)
Dalenys (for 56 months)
Univention GmbH (for 52 months)
Université Jean Monnet de St Etienne (for 52 months)
Ribbon Communications, Inc. (for 45 months)
Exonet B.V. (for 35 months)
Leibniz Rechenzentrum (for 29 months)
CINECA (for 19 months)
Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères (for 13 months)
Cloudways Ltd
Dinahosting SL

Bronze sponsors:

Seznam.cz, a.s. (for 67 months)
Evolix (for 66 months)
MyTux (for 66 months)
Intevation GmbH (for 63 months)
Linuxhotel GmbH (for 63 months)
Daevel SARL (for 62 months)
Bitfolk LTD (for 61 months)
Megaspace Internet Services GmbH (for 61 months)
Greenbone Networks GmbH (for 60 months)
NUMLOG (for 60 months)
WinGo AG (for 59 months)
Ecole Centrale de Nantes – LHEEA (for 55 months)
Sig-I/O (for 53 months)
Entr’ouvert (for 50 months)
Adfinis SyGroup AG (for 48 months)
GNI MEDIA (for 42 months)
Laboratoire LEGI – UMR 5519 / CNRS (for 42 months)
Tesorion (for 42 months)
Bearstech (for 34 months)
LiHAS (for 34 months)
People Doc (for 30 months)
Catalyst IT Ltd (for 28 months)
Supagro (for 24 months)
Demarcq SAS (for 22 months)
TrapX Security (for 19 months)
Université Grenoble Alpes (for 8 months)
TouchWeb SAS

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