FOSS activity in October 2025

• Debian packages:
  • firmware-nonfree:
    • Bugs:
      • closed #1118156: Missing Build-Depends on python3-dacite, python3-jinja2
    • Merge requests:
      • closed !129: Retire vorlon from uploaders
      • merged !130: Update firmware-nonfree to 20250917
      • reviewed and merged !131: Update to 20251011
      • merged !132: misc-nonfree: Include all Arm Mali firmware
      • opened and merged !133: Fix another broken symlink and avoid creating more of them
    • Uploads:
      • uploaded version 20250917-1 to unstable
  • gdm3:
    • Bugs:
      • opened #1119809: Black screen after upgrading from 48
  • linux:
    • Bugs:
      • replied to #1116358: linux-image-6.12.48+deb13-amd64: LVM snapshots causing I/O errors in KVM guest with aio=io_uring set
      • replied to #1117256: linux-image-6.12.48+deb13-amd64: Kernel can no longer activate ethernet on Dell WD19S docking station
      • (LTS) replied to #1118465: Regression: linux-image-5.10.0-36-arm64 fails to bring up LAN7800 USB NIC: “NO-CARRIER” and “state DOWN”
      • replied to #1118653: linux-image-6.17.2-amd64: Please restore CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_MASQUERADE
    • Merge requests:
      • reviewed !1577: udeb: Add USB TYPE-C modules and Mux for usb-modules.
      • reviewed and merged !1636: d/b/test-patches: Stop handling rt featureset for test builds
      • reviewed !1664: Use more debhelper files
      • reviewed !1667: Drop some Secure Boot backward compatibility
      • (LTS) opened and merged !1675: CI: Fix more issues introduced by the removal of the extract-source job
      • opened !1685: netfilter: Enable NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY
    • (LTS) Updated the bullseye-security branch to 5.10.246, but did not upload it
  • linux-base:
    • Bugs:
      • closed #1117908: linux-sysctl-defaults should restart systemd-sysctl.service in the postinst
  • rust-sequoia-sop:
    • Bugs:
      • opened and replied to #1118154: sqopv does not seem to support some signing keys
      • opened #1118155: The –debug option to verify does nothing
  • wireless-regdb:
    • Uploads:
      • uploaded version 2025.10.07-1 to unstable
• Mailing lists:
  • debian-devel:
    • replied to uscan downloads wrong source tarball from Github
  • debian-kernel:
    • posted Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-10-15
    • replied to slow memory I/O on AMD EPYC 9334
  • debian-lts:
    • replied to Please enable udebs for the 6.1 backport
  • debian-lts-announce:
    • posted [SECURITY] [DLA 4327-1] linux security update
    • posted [SECURITY] [DLA 4328-1] linux-6.1 security update
  • stable:
    • replied to [PATCH 5.10 013/122] compiler.h: drop fallback overflow checkers
    • replied to [PATCH 5.10 171/332] lib/crypto/curve25519-hacl64: Disable KASAN with clang-17 and older