FOSS activity in June 2025

• Debian packages:
  • debianutils:
    • Bugs:
      • opened and replied to #1107113: installkernel does not run hooks under /usr/share/kernel/postinst.d
  • firmware-nonfree:
    • Uploads:
      • uploaded version 20250509-1 to experimental
      • uploaded version 20250613-1 to experimental
  • gnome-shell:
    • Bugs:
      • opened #1108438: Very slow to start with NFS-mounted home directory
  • initramfs-tools:
    • Bugs:
      • closed #1015954: unmkinitramfs and lsinitramfs don’t dereference symlinks consistently
      • replied to #1107194: [s390x] trixie’s lsinitramfs fails on initramfs build on bookworm
      • closed #1107689: initramfs-tools - lost zfcp module, unbootable s390x systems
      • replied to and closed #1108204: initramfs-tools: update-initramfs trigger does not update the initramfs in some cases
    • Merge requests:
      • merged !171: unmkinitramfs: Add support for lzma compression
      • opened !173: Draft: Introduce copy_file helper program to replace copy_file function
      • merged !174: Add missing Breaks to initramfs-tools-bin (for moved unmkinitramfs)
      • merged !175: Re-add s390 specific scsi drivers
      • merged !176: autopkgtest: replace qemu-kvm by qemu-system-native
      • merged !177: Revert “Avoid updating the initramfs twice for some cases”
      • merged !178: update-initramfs: use “set -u”
    • Uploads:
      • uploaded version 0.148 to unstable
      • uploaded version 0.148.1 to unstable
      • uploaded version 0.148.2 to unstable
      • uploaded version 0.148.3 to unstable
      • uploaded version 0.149 to experimental
  • ktls-utils:
    • Uploads:
      • uploaded version 1.1.0-1 to experimental
  • linux:
    • Bugs:
      • replied to #872726: linux: apparmor doesn’t use proper audit event ids
      • replied to #1103397: Kernel Panic: copy_fpstate_to_sigframe crashes
      • replied to #1104745: gcc-15 ICE compiling linux kernel 6.14.5 with CONFIG_RANDSTRUCT
      • replied to #1108294: kernel 6.12 breaks cgroup awareness of openjdk 21
    • Merge requests:
      • closed !1508: Draft: d/t/image.postinst.in: Use reboot-required to flag required reboot
      • reviewed and merged !1550: Don’t compress perf’s tips.txt (Closes: #1088747)
      • opened !1558: rtla: Enable use of libcpupower
    • Uploads:
      • uploaded version 6.12.27-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
      • uploaded version 6.12.30-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
      • uploaded version 6.12.32-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
    • (LTS) Updated the bullseye-security branch to upstream version 5.10.238, but did not yet upload it
  • (LTS) linux-6.1:
    • Prepared a backport of version 6.1.140-1 to bullseye-security, but did not yet upload it
  • linux-base:
    • Merge requests:
      • reviewed and merged !18: postinst hook: Use reboot-required to flag required reboot
    • Uploads:
      • uploaded version 4.12~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
• Debian non-package bugs:
  • release.debian.org:
    • opened #1107190: unblock: debianutils/5.23
    • opened #1107203: unblock: initramfs-tools/0.148.1
    • opened and replied to #1107723: unblock: initramfs-tools/0.148.2
    • opened #1108484: unblock: initramfs-tools/0.148.3
• Mailing lists:
  • debian-kernel:
    • posted Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-06-25
    • replied to Please enable CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL
  • initramfs:
    • posted initramfs-tools 0.149 release
  • linux-hyperv:
    • posted and replied to [PATCH 0/2] tools/hv: Improve the sample hv_get_dhcp_info script
  • linux-pci:
    • replied to [PATCH] agp/amd64: Bind to unsupported devices only if AGP is present
  • stable:
    • posted and replied to [stable 6.12+] x86/pkeys: Simplify PKRU update in signal frame