Archive of posts from 2025

13 April 2025
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)
- debian-lts-announce mailing list:
  - posted “[SECURITY] [DLA 4075-1] linux security update”
  - posted “[SECURITY] [DLA 4076-1] linux-6.1 security update”
  - posted “[SECURITY] [DLA 4102-1] linux-6.1 security update”
- Debian firmware-free package:
  - Merge requests:
    - opened and merged !8: Use local copy of debian_linux Python package instead of linux-support
    - opened and merged !7: Add release-update script
- Debian firmware-nonfree package:
  - Bugs:
  - Merge requests:
- initramfs mailing list:
  - posted “initramfs-tools 0.146 release”
  - posted “[ANNOUNCE] klibc 2.0.14”
- Debian initramfs-tools package:
  - Bugs:
  - Merge requests:
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 0.146 to unstable
    - uploaded version 0.147 to unstable
- Debian iproute2 package:
  - Bugs:
- Debian klibc package:
  - Bugs:
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 2.0.14-1 to unstable
- Debian kmod package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1059518: kmod: modprobe –show-depends may not show all softdeps
- Debian kup package:
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !2: Recommends: gpg-agent instead of gnupg-agent (Closes: #1064112)
- Debian linux package:
  - Bugs:
  - Merge requests:
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded linux-6.1 version 6.1.129-1~deb11u1 to bullseye-security
- linux-block mailing list:
  - replied to “[PATCH V3] block: fix conversion of GPT partition name to 7-bit” (and once more in this thread)
- linux-clk mailing list:
  - posted “CVE-2024-50181: clk: imx: Remove CLK_SET_PARENT_GATE for DRAM mux for i.MX7D”
- linux-kbuild mailing list:
  - replied to “[PATCH] kbuild, rust: use -fremap-path-prefix to make paths relative”
  - replied to “[PATCH v2] kbuild: make all file references relative to source root”
- linux-kselftest mailing list:
  - posted “CVE-2024-56741: apparmor: test: Fix memory leak for aa_unpack_strdup()”
- linux-perf-users mailing list:
  - posted “[PATCH 0/2] perf docs: Fix build with asciidoctor” (and several times more in this thread)
- linux-rt-users mailing list:
  - posted “[PATCH 5.10] rt: Fix buid issue in be2net”
- linux-spi mailing list:
  - posted “CVE-2021-47469: spi: Fix deadlock when adding SPI controllers on SPI buses”
- netdev mailing list:
  - posted “[PATCH iproute2 1/2] color: Introduce and use default_color_opt() function” (and once more in this thread)
  - posted “[PATCH iproute2 0/2] Improve coloured text readability” (and several times more in this thread)
- ntb mailing list:
  - posted “CVE-2023-52917: ntb: intel: Fix the NULL vs IS_ERR() bug for debugfs_create_dir()”
- Debian osk-sdl package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1089929: initramfs-tools: update-initramfs fails to generate initrd on arm64 (pinephone)
- stable mailing list:
  - replied to “[PATCH 5.4,5.10 2/2] udf: Fix use of check_add_overflow() with mixed type arguments”
  - replied to “[PATCH 5.10 462/462] net: ipv6: fix dst refleaks in rpl, seg6 and ioam6 lwtunnels”
  - replied to “[PATCH 5.15 620/620] net: ipv6: fix dst refleaks in rpl, seg6 and ioam6 lwtunnels”
- Debian wireless-regdb package:
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 2025.02.20-1 to unstable
13 April 2025
FOSS activity in February 2025
- debian-events-eu mailing list:
  - posted “Debian BSP in Leuven, March/April”
- debian-kernel mailing list:
- Debian initramfs-tools package:
  - Merge requests:
- Debian linux package:
  - Bugs:
  - Updated the bullseye-security branch to upstream version 5.10.234
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 5.10.234-1 to bullseye-security
    - uploaded linux-6.1 version 6.1.128-1~deb11u1 to bullseye-security
- stable mailing list:
  - posted “[PATCH 5.4,4.10 1/2] perf cs-etm: Add missing variable in cs_etm__process_queues()” (and several more times in this thread)
13 April 2025
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)
- debian-lts-announce mailing list:
  - posted “[SECURITY] [DLA 4008-1] linux-6.1 security update”
- Debian initramfs-tools package:
  - Merge requests:
- Debian jinja-vanish package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1092861: jinja-vanish: please run tests at build time
- Debian kernel-team package:
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !6: Support new linux branch layout
- Debian linux package:
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !1296: d/p/debian/cdc_ncm-cdc_mbim-use-ncm-by-default.patch: drop
  - Updated the bullseye-security branch, but didn’t upload
- Debian wireless-regdb package:
  - Bugs:
    - closed #1092796: Autopkgtests fail with Python 3.13: OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !6: d/tests/check-signatures: Fix subprocess cleanup
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 2024.10.07-2 to unstable
13 April 2025
FOSS activity in December 2024
- Debian cdrom bugs:
  - updated #1090340: cdrom: Debian 12 missing drivers for HyperV 2008 R2
- debian-kernel mailing list:
  - posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2024-12-04” (and once more in that thread)
  - replied to “Debug symbols for linux-image-5.10.0-20-amd64”
- Debian firmware-free package:
  - Merge requests:
    - opened and merged !6: Update to current upstream and linux-support versions
    - merged !5: Update to current upstream and linux-support versions
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 20241210-1 to unstable
- Debian firmware-nonfree package:
  - Merge requests:
    - opened and merged !112: Update to current upstream and linux-support versions
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 20241210-1 to unstable
- Debian linux package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1089521: linux-image-6.12.3-amd64 fails to boot due to Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 error
  - Updated the bullseye branch to upstream version 5.10.233, but didn’t upload
- netdev mailing list:
  - replied to “cpu_rmap maps CPUs to wrong interrupts after reprogramming affinities”
13 April 2025
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 firmware-nonfree package:
  - Merge requests:
    - opened and merged !110: Update to linux-support-6.11.10
- Debian initramfs-tools package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1087697: Mkinitramfs causes machines to fail booting when used with LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !128: Put compressed kernel modules and firmware in an uncompressed cpio
- Debian linux package:
- Debian procps package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1088203: linux-sysctl-defaults: apply setting after installation
- Debian systemd package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1085160: linux-sysctl-defaults: apply setting after installation
- Debian tech-ctte bugs:
  - updated #1065416: linux-libc-dev claims to provide linux-libc-dev-ARCH-cross, but it doesn’t do that completely
13 April 2025
FOSS activity in October 2024
- debian-boot mailing list:
  - replied to “Uploaded linux (6.11.2-1)”
  - replied to “Passing module option to d-i [Was: Avoiding prompt if no sound card is detected speakup.synth=soft]”
- 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:
- debian-lts-announce mailing list:
  - posted “[SECURITY] [DLA 3912-1] linux security update”
- Debian firmware-nonfree package:
  - Bugs:
    - closed #1084791: firmware-realteak: trying to overwrite ‘/usr/lib/firmware/rtl_bt/rtl8723cs_xx_config.bin’
  - Merge requests:
    - opened !109: realtek: Add Conflicts and Replaces against firmware-realtek-rtl8723cs-bt
    - merged !107: Update to 20240909; improve orig tarball generation
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 20240811-1 to unstable
    - uploaded version 20240909-1 to unstable
    - uploaded version 20240909-2 to unstable
- Debian initramfs-tools package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1084232: initramfs-tools: update-initramfs fails with “No space left on device” due to 2 temporary initrd copies in /boot
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !136: Fix copy_file again; expand documentation and add tests
    - merged !135: hook-functions: fixes for Qualcomm platforms
- Debian linux package:
- linux-trace-kernel mailing list:
  - replied to “tools/rtla: Fix installation from out-of-tree build”
- linux-watchdog mailing list:
  - posted “DL380 instability with hpwdt”
  - replied to “DL380 instability with hpwdt”
- Debian systemd package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1085160: linux-sysctl-defaults: apply setting after installation
- Debian wireguard package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #993985: wireguard should not depend on wireguard-dkms now that wireguard is in mainline
- Debian wireless-regdb package:
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 2024.10.07-1 to unstable