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FOSS activity in December 2025

2 January 2026

  • 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
    • linux-base:
      • Merge requests:
        • merged !19: linux-run-hooks: Use compatible hook dir names for headers packages
    • ministat:
      • Bugs:
        • replied to #1123854: ministat: Packaging vcs doesn’t work, upstream vcs unspecified
  • Debian non-packaged software:
    • kernel-sec:
      • Merge requests:
        • (LTS) updated and merged !24: Automate more things
        • (LTS) updated and merged !26: Update reporting scripts
        • (LTS) opened and merged !28: Fixes to issue retirement
        • (LTS) opened and merged !29: scripts/set-version: Re-process vulns.git for the given branch
  • Mailing lists:
    • debian-kernel:
      • posted Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-12-03
      • replied to Kernel Team meeting tomorrow 8:00 PM UTC in #debian-kernel
    • debian-lts-announce:
      • posted [SECURITY] [DLA 4404-1] linux security update
    • stable:
      • (LTS) reviewed and replied to various patches for 5.10

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