FOSS activity in June 2024
- I continued participating in Debian kernel team meetings.
- For initramfs-tools:
- I reviewed several more merge requests and merged some of them.
- I released version 0.143 and uploaded it to Debian experimental.
- For the Debian firmware-free package:
- I responded to an update on the bug report “firmware-linux-free uses prebuilt blobs instead of building from source” and the accompanying merge request “Build some firmware files from source”.
- I split off the new issue into a separate bug report “firmware-free: Incomplete source for carl9170-1.fw”, and merged the MR.
- I made some other necessary changes to the package and uploaded version 20240610-1 to unstable.
- For the Debian linux package:
- I responded to the following bug reports:
- linux: ext4 corruption with symlinks I bisected this and (re-)reported it upstream. I tested the upstream fix for this, but it hasn’t yet been applied.
- I answered questions about its required build environment.
- I uploaded:
- linux version 6.9.2-1~exp1 to experimental.
- (LTS) linux version 4.19.316-1 to buster-security, for which I issued DLA 3840-1.
- (LTS) linux-5.10 version 5.10.218-1~deb10u1 to buster-security, for which I issued DLA 3843-1.
- (LTS) I issued DLA 3841-1 and DLA 3842-1 for the earlier uploads of linux-5.10 that I had failed to announce.
- I reviewed and merged the following merge requests:
- I opened merge requests:
- (LTS) I started a backport of Linux 6.1 to bullseye, for when bullseye enters LTS and bullseye-backports is closed.
- I responded to the following bug reports:
- For the Debian linux-base package:
- Following discussion on a systemd merge request and in a kernel team meeting, I added the linux-sysctl-defaults package to provide a default sysctl configuration independent of which init system or kernel packages are used. I also requested that procps Depend on or Recommend it.
- I updated the debian/copyright file and fixed most of the open bugs.
- I uploaded version 4.10 and version 4.10.1 to unstable.
- For the Debian firmware-nonfree package:
- I finished reviewing and merged Diederik de Haas’s major (non-upstream) update to firmware-nonfree.
- I uploaded version 20230625-3~exp1 to experimental, but it was auto-rejected. I fixed a lintian override to satisfy the older lintian version on ftp-master, then uploaded version 20230625-3~exp2.
- I merged my changes to support and use wildcards in file lists.
- Diederik’s changes included package splits that could cause file loss in conjunction with the /usr-move in this release cycle. I applied Helmut Grohne’s fix from the above bug report, then uploaded version 20230625-3~exp3 to unstable.
- I prepared an update to the latest upstream version.