FOSS activity in September 2024

10 October 2024

I continued to attend and soemtimes chair Debian kernel team meetings
For the Debian firmware-nonfree package:
- I opened the MRs:
  - !105: nvidia-graphics: Add versioned Breaks on initramfs-tools to avoid bug #1076539
  - !107: Update to 20240909; improve orig tarball generation
- I reviewed the MRs:
  - !79: Improve maintainer scripts of firmware-nonfree
  - !102: Backport firmware-nonfree 20240709-2~bpo12+1 to Bookworm (merged)
  - !103: Add missing symlinks for tas2563 and tas2781 (merged)
  - !106: Update to 20240811 (merged)
- 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:
  - #1080492: firmware-nonfree: [i915] With 20240709-2, the external monitors randomly blank for 2-3 seconds (regression) (closed)
For the kernel-team repository:
- I reviewed and merged the MR !5: git-format-patch-for-debian: Support for sourcehut
- I deleted some obsolete text from the kernel upload checklist
For the Debian linux package:
- I announced the end of i386 kernel packages
- I opened or updated the MRs:
- I reviewed the MRs:
  - !675: [arm64] drivers/usb/host: Enable USB_XHCI_PCI_RENESAS as module (Closes: #1032671)
  - !1732: [x86] linux-cpupower: Add intel-speed-select command (rebased and merged)
  - !1038: debian/rules.real: export LANG = C.UTF-8 for sphinx (closed)
  - !1041: Add “-b” flag to genorig.py (closed)
  - !1065: Enable UBSAN_BOUNDS and UBSAN_SHIFT (closed)
  - !1166: [amd64] Enable CRYPTO_DEV_IAA_CRYPTO (merged)
  - !1169: [arm64] Add additional kernel with 64k page size
  - !1172: debian/config: add DAMON support for debian kernel (merged)
  - !1177: powerpc: Explicitly disable CRASH_DUMP on 32-bit” (merged)
  - !1178: mm: set CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE=y on most 64-bit architectures, not only amd64 (merged)
  - !1185: riscv64: fix module duplication detected by kernel-wedge starting with version 2.106 (merged)
  - !1186: [arm64] udeb: fix duplicated modules (merged)
  - !1192: [loong64] enable LBT, KVM and para-virt support (merged)
  - !1193: [arm64] Update rk3588 platform support (merged)
  - !1195: [arm64] enable Qualcomm X Elite support (merged)
  - !1196: [arm64] include modules for Rockchip RK3588 (closed)
  - !1198: Revert “Make linux-libc-dev provide all cross packages” (merged)
  - !1204: [arm64] Enable drivers for K3-AM642 SoC on SolidRun HummingBoard-T
  - !1207: [rt] Update to 6.11-rc5-rt5 (merged)
  - !1208: Support some Wi-Fi 7 devices (merged)
  - !1211: Set CONFIG_I2C=y on alpha and sparc64 (closed)
  - !1214: [loong64] Enable USB EHCI and OHCI host support (merged)
- I merged my own MRs:
  - !741: Fix most reproducibility issues
  - !1182: [x86] ACPI: Enable ACPI_EC_DEBUGFS as module (Closes: #980555)
  - !1188: [arm64] udeb: fix duplicated modules
  - !1199: [i386] Stop building kernel packages
  - !1200: Backport CI support to bullseye
  - !1209: Build fixes for rtla
  - !1215: d/rules.real: Try harder to set the locale to C.UTF-8
  - !1218: Clean up udeb configuration
- I uploaded:
  - (LTS) linux-6.1 versions 6.1.106-3~deb11u1, 6.1.106-3~deb11u2, and 6.1.106-3~deb11u3 to bullseye-security
  - linux version 6.11-1~exp1 to experimental
- (LTS) I updated the bullseye-security branch to upstream version 5.10.226
- I responded to bug reports:
- I sent patches upstream:
  - wifi: iwlegacy: Fix “field-spanning write” warning in il_enqueue_hcmd() which is meant to fix bug #1062421
  - tools/rtla: Fix installation from out-of-tree build
- I sent a new response to Proposal: Switch to linear git history
For the Debian nfs-utils package:
- I reviewed the MRs:
  - !8: Fixes for bugs #849942 and #849608 (closed)
  - !32: d/control: nfs-common: Move python3 to Recommends (merged)
- I closed my own old bug report #711021: mount.nfs timeout for GETPORT is much too short
For diffoscope:
- I commented on issue #100: Excessive memory use when comparing Linux Debian .dbg packages to report that the issue still exists, and to provide a reproducer
- I commented on issue #342: Gets killed trying to diff very large (~5GB) images which seems like a duplicate of #100
- I opened the MR !145: Draft: Reduce memory usage by revert to using popen() for diff input and output which fixes #100 but needs work to avoid regressions for other cases
For the Debian nss-wrapper package, I opened MR !4: Replace wrap-and-sort autopkgtest with a CI job
For the Debian pam-wrapper package, I opened MR !4: Replace wrap-and-sort autopkgtest with a CI job
For initramfs-tools:
- I opened the MR !136: Fix copy_file again; expand documentation and add tests
- I reviewed the MRs:
- I responded to bug report #1082647: copy_exec: [regression] ignores trailing slash, installs file as directory name (pending)
For debian-kernel-handbook:
- I reviwed the MRs:
  - !7: Add disabling SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM to chapter-common-tasks
  - !8: Disable dwarf toolchain default to really disable debug info (merged)
I responded (belatedly) to Debian tech-ctte bug #1065416: linux-libc-dev claims to provide linux-libc-dev-ARCH-cross, but it doesn’t do that completely