FOSS activity in April 2025

Debian packages:
- dillo:
  - Bugs:
    - opened #1102988: 10 year old browser is unsafe to use on the web
- firmware-free:
  - Merge requests:
    - opened and merged !9: Fix AppStream metadata issues
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 20241210-2 to unstable
- firmware-nonfree:
  - Bugs:
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !118: Update to 20250211
    - reviewed and closed !119: intel-misc: add ish firmware due to the license issue (#1102999)
    - opened and merged !120: Update file patterns included and excluded
    - opened and merged !121: Update to 20250311
    - opened and merged !122: Update to 20250410
    - opened and merged !123: Fix AppStream metadata issues
    - opened and merged !124: Update upstream URLs to point to repository on gitlab.com
    - opened and merged !125: Revert “rtw89: 8852c: update fw to v0.27.125.0” (Closes: #1103959)
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 20250109-1 to unstable
    - uploaded version 20250211-1 to unstable
    - uploaded version 20250311-1 to unstable
    - uploaded version 20250410-1 to unstable
    - uploaded version 20250410-2 to unstable
- initramfs-tools:
  - Bugs:
    - closed #1099461: initramfs-tools: _call_dracut_install breaks set -e hooks without /sys as already fixed
  - Merge requests:
    - opened and merged !168: unmkinitramfs: Rewrite in C to make it acceptably fast
    - opened !169: Draft: unmkinitramfs: Stop splitting into “early” and “main” subdirectories
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 0.142+deb12u2 to bookworm
    - uploaded version 0.142+deb12u3 to bookworm
- kernel-handbook:
  - Merge requests:
    - reviewed !9: Clarifications about usage of the test-patches script
- kmod:
  - Bugs:
    - replied to #1099655: initramfs-tools 146 generates incorrect initramfs : does not boot, does not find root fs, reassigning it from initramfs-tools to kmod and merging it with another report
- linux:
  - Bugs:
    - closed #751721: Figure out how to deal with ABI changes as already fixed
    - replied to #946791: Please enable CONFIG_IOSCHED_BFQ=y with my findings and a request to the reporter for clarification
    - closed #1066976: linux-source-6.6: make localmodconfig does not configure USB storage, nor cdrom filesystem as not a bug
    - replied to #1086638: linux-image-6.11.5: usbguard-daemon invalid opcode: 0000, usb’s not usable
    - replied to and closed #1101203: linux-image-6.12.19-amd64: Kernel 6.12.19-amd64 fails to connect display to X server as not a bug in Debian
    - replied to #1103397: linux-image-amd64: Kernel Panic: copy_fpstate_to_sigfrane crashes. with a diagnosis, and forwarded it upstream
  - Merge requests:
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 6.12.22-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
  - (LTS) Updated the bullseye-security branch to upstream version 5.10.236, but did not yet upload it
- (LTS) linux-6.1:
  - Prepared a backport of version 6.1.135-1 to bullseye-security, but did not yet upload it
- wireless-regdb:
  - Uploads:
    - (LTS) uploaded version 2025.02.20-1~deb12u1 to bookworm
Debian non-package bugs:
- release.debian.org:
  - opened and replied to #1104052: bookworm-pu: package initramfs-tools/0.142+deb12u2
  - opened #1104452: bookworm-pu: package wireless-regdb/2025.02.20-1~deb12u1
Debian non-package projects:
- kernel-team:
  - Merge requests:
    - opened and merged !8: Improvements to find-recent-urgent for meeting agenda
Mailing lists:
- debian-events-eu:
  - posted Debian BSP near Leuven, 26-27 April
- debian-kernel:
- linux-firmware:
  - posted and replied to ish firmware is undistributable

I also co-organised a Debian BSP (Bug-Squashing Party) last weekend, for which I will post a separate report later.