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FOSS activity in February 2025

13 April 2025

  • debian-events-eu mailing list:
    • posted “Debian BSP in Leuven, March/April”
  • debian-kernel mailing list:
    • posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-02-05”
    • posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-02-26”
    • replied to “Package for development of out-of-tree kernel modules written in Rust”
  • 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
  • Debian linux package:
    • Bugs:
      • updated #1087807: linux-image-6.1.0-27-amd64: Unable to boot: i40e swiotlb buffer is full
      • updated #1093371: megaraid_sas didn’t work anymore with Xen
      • updated #1087807: linux-image-6.1.0-27-amd64: Unable to boot: i40e swiotlb buffer is full
      • updated #825423: supermin + sbuild + linux-image = broken chroot
      • updated #1093371: megaraid_sas didn’t work anymore with Xen
      • updated #1050578: linux-image-6.1.0-11-amd64: kernel disk device cache coherency issue: stale reads on /dev/sda1
    • (LTS) Updated the bullseye-security branch to upstream version 5.10.234
    • Uploads:
      • (LTS) uploaded version 5.10.234-1 to bullseye-security
      • (LTS) uploaded linux-6.1 version 6.1.128-1~deb11u1 to bullseye-security
  • stable mailing list:
    • (LTS) 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)

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