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:
  • replied to “It makes no sense to link vmlinuz and initramfs to the root directory”
  • replied to “Is there a point to retaining src:pth?”
  • replied to “Moving apt (and hence bootstraps) from GnuPG to Sequioa (via gpgv-sq)”
• 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:
  • Bugs:
    • updated #1086604: linux-image-6.11.4-amd64: amdgpu is unable to resume from suspend
    • updated #1086503: linux: Please get HWCAP and HWCAP2 in sync between 32bits and 64bits architecture
    • updated #1087623: linux-image-6.11.7-amd64: WLAN device disappears after resume from suspend or hibernation (RTL8852CE PCIe, rtw89_8852ce)
    • closed #1032671: linux: Enable USB_XHCI_PCI_RENESAS on arm64
    • closed #1082906: linux-image-6.11-amd64: ipu6 camera is not working
    • closed #1085600: d/patches: typo in patch file name
    • closed #1086335: linux: please enable ipu3 and cio2 kernel modules
    • closed #1086695: linux: Enable X86 userspace shadow stack
  • Merge requests:
    • merged !1276: fs/ntfs3: Enable NTFS3_FS as module
    • opened and merged !1274: linux-image: bug: Update list of related firmware packages
    • opened and merged !1265: Fix out-of-tree module build and missing test cases
    • merged !1262: libbpf: Add missing per-arch include path (fixes FTBFS on riscv64).
    • opened and merged !1260: objtool: Fix compiler flags leaking to fixdep in cross-build
    • merged !1253: [amd64] arch/x86: Enable X86_USER_SHADOW_STACK
    • merged !1251: [rt] Update to 6.12-rc4-rt6
    • merged !1250: Enable ov5670 video drivers
    • merged !1249: [amd64] Enable CIO2 and IPU3 kernel modules (Closes: #1086335)
    • merged !1246: [amd64] drivers/accel: Enable DRM_ACCEL
    • merged !1239: [x86] Enable Intel IPU supported camera sensors
    • merged !1235: Enable DRM_XE for x86 intel arc graphic card
    • merged !1233: d/config: enable IPE LSM
    • merged !1230: x86: intel_soc_pmic_bxtwc enable two sub-devices as module
    • merged !1226: [arm64] Enable CONFIG_SC_GCC/PINCTRL for 7280/7280/8180X/8280XP as builtin
    • merged !675: [arm64] drivers/usb/host: Enable USB_XHCI_PCI_RENESAS as module (Closes: #1032671)
  • Uploads:
    • uploaded version 6.12~rc6-1~exp1 to experimental
  • (LTS) Updated the bullseye-security branch to upstream version 5.10.228, but didn’t upload
• 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