Archive of posts from 2026

• 1 April 2026

  FOSS activity in March 2026

  • Debian packages:
    • firmware-nonfree:
      • Bugs:
        • closed #1064620: firmware-nonfree: suggestions for the packaging, gencontrol.py and debian/rules
        • closed #1126797: firmware-intel-graphics: Please ship irci_irci_ecr-master_20161208_0213_20170112_1500.bin as ipu3-fw.bin
        • closed #1131751: ABI break in amdxdna npu firmware
      • Merge requests:
        • opened and merged !140: Update to 20260309
        • opened and merged !141: Clean up packaging (from Nicolas Boulenguez)
        • opened !142: Replace copy-firmware.sh; install files and generate metainfo.xml at build time
      • Uploads:
        • uploaded version 20260110-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
        • uploaded version 20260221-1 to unstable
        • uploaded version 20260221-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
        • uploaded version 20260309-1 to unstable

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• 2 March 2026

  FOSS activity in February 2026

  • Debian packages:
    • firmware-free:
      • Bugs:
        • closed #890601: firmware-linux-free uses prebuilt blobs instead of building from source
      • Uploads:
        • uploaded version 20241210-3 to unstable
    • firmware-nonfree:
      • Bugs:
        • closed #481234: firmware-nonfree: Include firmware for p54 driver
        • closed #484177: firmware-nonfree: keyspan
        • closed #534379: [firmware-nonfree] Please consider including dvb-usb-af9015.fw
        • closed #548745: firmware-linux: Fix licence and include edgeport firmware
        • closed #588142: Add r8192u_usb (aka rtl8192u) firmware
        • closed #597897: RFP: alsa-firmware – firmware binaries used by each alsa-firmware-loader program
        • closed #999485: Please add brcmfmac43456-sdio.* files as it’s not just used in RPi devices
        • opened and closed #1126794: Undistributable file under qcom/qdu100
        • closed #1126846: Qualcomm AudioReach topology files are covered by separate licence
        • replied to #1126896: firmware-nvidia-graphics: Cannot upgrade from bookworm-backports to trixie-backports
      • Merge requests:
        • closed !128: Draft: Add Provides: based ABI versioning mechanism
        • merged !134: Update to 20251125
        • reviewed and merged !135: Drop DSP firmware, migrated to hexagon-dsp-binaries source
        • reviewed and merged !136: debian/copyright: correct licence issues
        • opened and closed !137: d/copyright, qcom-soc: Exclude undistributable QDU100 firmware
        • opened and merged !138: Update to 20260110
        • opened and merged !139: Update to 20260221
      • Uploads:
        • uploaded version 20251111-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
        • uploaded version 20251125-1 to unstable
        • uploaded version 20260110-1 to unstable

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• 4 February 2026

  FOSS activity in January 2026

  • Debian packages:
    • dracut:
      • Bugs:
        • replied to and reassigned #1124400: update-initramfs no longer includes /lib/modules/<kver>/updates directory
    • flash-kernel:
      • Bugs:
        • closed #1102690: A higher version (…) is still installed, no reflashing required
        • closed #1125327: since linux 6.18, flash-kernel fails to find dtbs in /usr/lib/linux-image-*
      • Uploads:
        • uploaded version 3.110 to unstable
        • uploaded version 3.110~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
    • kernel-sec:
      • Merge requests:
        • opened !30: scripts/import-korg-vulns: Ignore issues in unsupported architectures

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• 2 January 2026

  FOSS activity in December 2025

  • Debian packages:
    • firmware-nonfree:
      • Merge requests:
        • reviewed !135: Upgrade to 20251125
    • ktls-utils:
      • Bugs:
        • replied to and closed #1121921: ktls-utils: Deprecated tlshd config path breaks autopkgtests
      • Uploads:
        • uploaded version 1.3.0-2 to unstable
    • linux:
      • Merge requests:
        • reviewed !1723: Draft: Avoid usage of dh_movetousr and also update udebs to use /usr/lib/modules
      • Uploads:
        • (LTS) uploaded version 5.10.247-1 to bullseye-security
        • uploaded version 6.17.13-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports

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