FOSS activity in April 2025
- Debian packages:
- dillo:
- firmware-free:
- Merge requests:
- opened and merged !9: Fix AppStream metadata issues
- Uploads:
- uploaded version 20241210-2 to unstable
- Merge requests:
- firmware-nonfree:
- Bugs:
- closed #1087326: firmware-realtek: RTL8723CS not usable on PinePhone with firmware config provided by 20240909-2
- closed #1096088: firmware-mediatek: Please include mediatek/mt7996 firmware
- closed #1096192: firmware-nonfree: Please update debian/modinfo.json for 6.12.x kernels
- closed #1100097: firmware-intel-graphics: Debian 13, installing firmware-intel-graphics does not update initramfs
- opened and closed #1102999: ish firmware is undistributable
- closed #1103959: firmware-realtek: Corrupted firmware file rtw8852c_fw-1.bin
- 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
- Bugs:
- initramfs-tools:
- Bugs:
- closed #1099461: initramfs-tools: _call_dracut_install breaks set -e hooks without /sys as already fixed
- Merge requests:
- Uploads:
- uploaded version 0.142+deb12u2 to bookworm
- uploaded version 0.142+deb12u3 to bookworm
- Bugs:
- kernel-handbook:
- Merge requests:
- 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
- Bugs:
- 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:
- merged !1295: [arm64] Fixes for MediaTek Chromebooks
- merged !1302: udeb: Add onboard_usb_dev to usb-modules
- reviewed !1338: kernel: preempt: Enable SCHED_CLASS_EXT (Extensible Scheduler Class)
- reviewed !1359: linux-bpf-dev: install header to linux/ subdirectory
- reviewed !1419: [arm64,powerpc,ppc64,ppc64el,riscv64,s390x] Enable KALLSYMS_ALL
- reviewed !1446: Enable CONFIG_HZ_1000
- reviewed and merged !1448: Include modprobe config in bug reports
- reviewed !1453: [amd64] enable CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM and CONFIG_DRM as built-in, re-enable CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB for Plymouth support without drivers/firmwares
- merged !1458: Enable UBSAN_BOUNDS and UBSAN_SHIFT
- reviewed !1463: drivers/hwmon/pmbus: Enable PMBUS and SENSORS_PMBUS as modules
- opened !1464: d/rules.real: Export CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT, CROSS32_COMPILE variables
- opened !1466: Fix various lintian errors and warnings
- opened !1467: linux-kbuild: Fix cross-build regression
- Uploads:
- uploaded version 6.12.22-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
- Updated the bullseye-security branch to upstream version 5.10.236, but did not yet upload it
- Bugs:
- linux-6.1:
- Prepared a backport of version 6.1.135-1 to bullseye-security, but did not yet upload it
- wireless-regdb:
- Uploads:
- uploaded version 2025.02.20-1~deb12u1 to bookworm
- Uploads:
- Debian non-package bugs:
- Debian non-package projects:
- kernel-team:
- Merge requests:
- opened and merged !8: Improvements to find-recent-urgent for meeting agenda
- Merge requests:
- kernel-team:
- Mailing lists:
- debian-events-eu:
- 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.