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:
    • updated #1025476: firmware-linux: Unrecognized video cards and wifi
    • closed #1092342: firmware-iwlwifi: please backport firmware-iwlwifi_20241210-1_all.deb
    • updated #1079168: firmware-siano: Add Appstream metainfo announcing HW support
    • updated #1100723: firmware-misc-nonfree: ralink firmware disapears after upgrade due backport firmware-misc-free split in multiple packages
    • closed #1025476: firmware-linux: Unrecognized video cards and wifi
  • Merge requests:
    • merged !117: d/copyright: mediatek: Stop excluding ‘*_MT7961*_1a*.bin’ and ‘mt7996/*’ files
    • opened and merged !116: Use local copy of debian_linux Python package instead of linux-support
    • merged !115: Make firmware-intel-graphics trigger update-initramfs
    • merged !114: Update to 20250109
    • closed !113: qcom: Re-add qcm6490 firmware
    • closed !108: Add python to makedeps, add separate dedup stage
    • closed !79: Improve maintainer scripts of firmware-nonfree
• initramfs mailing list:
  • posted “initramfs-tools 0.146 release”
  • posted “[ANNOUNCE] klibc 2.0.14”
• Debian initramfs-tools package:
  • Bugs:
    • updated #1094569: initramfs-tools: Package failed to install: Error while installing package: installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
    • updated #1088959: initramfs-tools: copy_exec copies file as symlink to the wrong binary instead
    • updated #1027458: MODULES=dep unbootable on Raspberry Pi 4 booting from USB
    • updated #1085262: Broken: ACPI DSDT loading does not work
    • updated #1065698: update-initramfs: -k all stopped working
    • updated #1027915: systemd requires /run to be mounted with a minimum size of 20MB
    • updated #1100008: initramfs-tools: causes autopkgtest regressions in cryptsetup, multipath-tools, maybe intel-microcode
    • updated #1099655: initramfs-tools 146 generates incorrect initramfs : does not boot, does not find root fs
    • closed #1082647: copy_exec: [regression] ignores trailing slash, installs file as directory name
    • closed #1088959: initramfs-tools: copy_exec copies file as symlink to the wrong binary instead
    • closed #1027458: MODULES=dep unbootable on Raspberry Pi 4 booting from USB
    • closed #1095991: initramfs-tools-core: make /dev/pts mode= consistent with systemd
    • closed #1100008: initramfs-tools: causes autopkgtest regressions in cryptsetup, multipath-tools, maybe intel-microcode
  • Merge requests:
    • merged !166: Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.2
    • merged !165: test: run quick copy-file autopkgtest first
    • closed !164: mkinitramfs: Last resort check of cryptoroot
    • merged !163: Fix spelling mistakes in d/changelog
    • opened and merged !162: unmkinitramfs: Restore split to “early” and “main” subdirectories
    • merged !161: Tighten /dev/pts permissions
    • merged !159: kernel/postinst.d: check for correct update-initramfs provider
    • opened and merged !158: hook-functions: Add reset drivers when MODULES=dep
    • merged !157: Avoid updating the initramfs twice for some cases
    • merged !154: Add qemu-net-iscsi autopkgtest
    • merged !151: hook-functions: add squashfs driver
    • merged !149: Filter block kernel modules by symbol regex from dracut
    • closed !138: fix: ACPI DSDT over-ride at boot
    • closed !137: kernel/postinst.d: Optimize execution for triggers
  • Uploads:
    • uploaded version 0.146 to unstable
    • uploaded version 0.147 to unstable
• Debian iproute2 package:
  • Bugs:
    • updated #1088739: colors make ip’s output unreadable
    • closed #884060: iproute2: Upgrade from 4.9.0-2 to 4.9.0-2.1 breaks wireless.
    • closed #901660: iproute2: Using HFSC-qdisc causes WARNING-messages and stack-traces in syslog
    • updated #1054642: Failing ARP relay from external -> Linux bridge -> veth port –> NS veth port
    • closed #481854: tc filters undocumented
    • closed #530564: tc htb quantum and r2q options undocumented
    • closed #1054044: iproute2: ss show wrong timer value in unit ms
• Debian klibc package:
  • Bugs:
    • updated #1063775: Plymouth, and cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable and may change in future; use –update=none instead
    • updated #1061662: fstype support for bcachefs
    • updated #991943: klibc: please consider including machine-readable copyright file
    • closed #1075820: libklibc-dev: unusable on hppa with recent Linux: conflicting types for ‘sigset_t’
  • 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:
    • closed #1091802: linux-image-6.1.0-27-amd64: Two times is detected touchpad on Asus Vivobook
    • updated #1100923: No config found for PCI dev 272b/40f0, rev=0x472, rfid=0x112200
    • updated #1101203: linux-image-6.12.19-amd64: Kernel 6.12.19-amd64 fails to connect display to X server
  • Merge requests:
    • closed !1431: fbdev/offb: Fix patch to update expected device name
    • opened and merged !1428: Fix a lintian error and many warnings
    • opened and closed !1427: linux-support: Remove unused files and drop ABI suffix
    • merged !1422: Drop support for HFS and HFS+ filesystems
    • merged !1355: Generate debhelper files per architecture
    • merged !1321: kconfigeditor2: document to run debian/rules orig first
  • 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