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Report for Debian BSP near Leuven in April 2025
On 26th and 27th April we held a Debian bug-squashing party near Leuven, Belgium. Several longstanding and new Debian contributors gathered to work through some of the highest priority bugs affecting the upcoming release of Debian 13 “trixie”.
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FOSS activity in April 2025
- Debian packages:
- dillo:
- firmware-free:
- Merge requests:
- opened and merged !9: Fix AppStream metadata issues
- Uploads:
- uploaded version 20241210-2 to unstable
- Merge requests:
- firmware-nonfree:
- Bugs:
- closed #1087326: firmware-realtek: RTL8723CS not usable on PinePhone with firmware config provided by 20240909-2
- closed #1096088: firmware-mediatek: Please include mediatek/mt7996 firmware
- closed #1096192: firmware-nonfree: Please update debian/modinfo.json for 6.12.x kernels
- closed #1100097: firmware-intel-graphics: Debian 13, installing firmware-intel-graphics does not update initramfs
- opened and closed #1102999: ish firmware is undistributable
- closed #1103959: firmware-realtek: Corrupted firmware file rtw8852c_fw-1.bin
- Bugs:
- Debian packages:
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FOSS activity in March 2025
- debian-kernel mailing list:
- replied to “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-03-05”
- posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-03-26” (and once more in this thread)
- (LTS) debian-lts-announce mailing list:
- Debian firmware-free package:
- debian-kernel mailing list:
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FOSS activity in February 2025
- debian-events-eu mailing list:
- debian-kernel mailing list:
- Debian initramfs-tools package:
- Merge requests:
- opened and merged !156: tests: Add e2fsprogs to dependencies
- merged !155: test: log commands that produce output on stdout
- merged !148: netinfo_to_resolv_conf: add net_file to local variables
- merged !147: netinfo_to_resolv_conf: clear variables between sourcing
- merged !146: Explicitly call “set -e” instead of specifying on shebang
- merged !144: fix shellcheck complaints in tests
- reviewed !142: Handle simple-framebuffer drivers and framebuffer_coreboot built as modules
- merged !139: hook-functions: make copy_libgcc to not take any parameters
- closed !134: add losetup-rootfs-img script: boot from rootfs image files
- Merge requests:
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FOSS activity in January 2025
- debian-kernel mailing list:
- posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-01-15” (and once more in that thread)
- (LTS) debian-lts-announce mailing list:
- Debian initramfs-tools package:
- Merge requests:
- opened and merged !153: Some small fixes
- merged !145: Drop obsolete shellcheck overrides
- merged !143: Declare breaking miniramfs 1.0.2 and older
- merged !141: hook-functions: Add msm to fb modules list
- merged !140: hook-functions: Handle msm hidden depency on qrtr
- merged !127: Filter net kernel modules by symbol regexp from dracut
- closed !119: Fix resume device type check
- closed !89: init: Remove tmpfs from rootfstype option
- Merge requests:
- debian-kernel mailing list:
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FOSS activity in December 2024
- Debian cdrom bugs:
- debian-kernel mailing list:
- posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2024-12-04” (and once more in that thread)
- (LTS) replied to “Debug symbols for linux-image-5.10.0-20-amd64”
- Debian firmware-free package:
- Merge requests:
- Uploads:
- uploaded version 20241210-1 to unstable
- Debian firmware-nonfree package:
- Merge requests:
- Uploads:
- uploaded version 20241210-1 to unstable
- Debian linux package:
- Bugs:
- (LTS) Updated the bullseye branch to upstream version 5.10.233, but didn’t upload
- netdev mailing list:
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FOSS activity in November 2024
- debian-boot mailing list:
- posted “partman recipes and deprecation of ext2” (and once more in that thread)
- posted “Moving kernel modules under /usr/lib in installer”
- debian-devel mailing list:
- debian-kernel mailing list:
- posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2024-11-06”
- posted “PSA: Renaming branches in kernel-team repositories” (and several more times in that thread)
- debian-boot mailing list:
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FOSS activity in October 2024
- debian-boot mailing list:
- debian-devel mailing list:
- replied to “signify and signify-openbsd names” (and several times more in that thread)
- replied to “Epoch for src:fuse-ext2 to replace src:fuse-umfuse-ext2’s fuseext2 binary” (and once more in that thread)
- replied to “lintian preventing uploads”
- debian-kernel mailing list:
- posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2024-10-02”
- replied to “Backports: linux-image-amd64 6.10.6-1~bpo12+1”
- posted “Uploaded linux (6.11.2-1)”
- replied to “linux-image-6.11.2-amd64 - external display does not work with this kernel”
- posted and replied to “File conflict between firmware-realtek and firmware-realtek-rtl8723cs-bt”
- posted “Limiting graphics drivers in initramfs”
- posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2024-10-16”
- replied to “Need information where tests can be found for linux-base Debian package”
- (LTS) debian-lts-announce mailing list:
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FOSS activity in September 2024
- I continued to attend and soemtimes chair Debian kernel team meetings
- For the Debian firmware-nonfree package:
- I opened the MRs:
- I reviewed the MRs:
- I merged my own MRs:
- !104: Update to linux-support-6.10.6
- !105: nvidia-graphics: Add versioned Breaks on initramfs-tools to avoid bug #1076539
- I uploaded:
- version 20240709-2 to unstable
- version 20240709-2~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
- I respnded to bug reports:
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