FOSS activity in February 2026

2 March 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:
  - 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
- hexagon-dsp-binaries:
  - Bugs:
    - opened #1129001: Missing binaries - should this package use XS-Autobuild?
- initramfs-tools:
  - Bugs:
    - closed #1126611: mkinitramfs: failed to determine device for /
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !191: tests fail on arm64 because they call qemu-system-arm64
- iptables:
  - Bugs:
    - replied to #1128561: iptables: virsh net-start no longer works: Failed to run firewall command iptables -w –table filter –list-rules
- ktls-utils:
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !3: d/t/test-common: Move inclusion of extensions when signing the certificate
- libvirt:
  - Bugs:
    - replied to #1124549: libvirt passes invalid flags for network interface deletion
- linux:
  - Bugs:
  - Merge requests:
    - reviewed !1682: Unsplit configs for some kernel architectures
    - reviewed !1821: riscv64 config update for linux 6.19
    - reviewed and merged !1824: db-mok: Remove unused function
    - opened !1831: CI: Update build job to work after another common pipeline change
  - Uploads:
    - (LTS) uploaded version 5.10.249-1 to bullseye-security
    - uploaded version 6.12.63-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
    - uploaded version 6.12.69-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
    - uploaded version 6.12.73-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
    - uploaded version 6.18.12-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
    - uploaded version 6.18.5-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
    - uploaded version 6.18.9-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
  - (LTS) updated the bullseye-security branch to 5.10.251, but did not upload it
- (LTS) linux-6.1:
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 6.1.162-1~deb11u1 to bullseye-security
- linux-base:
  - Bugs:
    - closed #1128355: linux-base: indirectly missing perl dependency?
- nfs-utils:
  - Merge requests:
    - reviewed and merged !36: Drop installation of blkmapd and nfs-blkmap.service systemd service
- wireless-regdb:
  - Bugs:
    - replied to and closed #1104022: wireless-regdb: Consider importing setregdomain and udev rule from Fedora
    - closed #1122785: wireless-regdb: Please remove/replace usage of dh_movetousr
    - closed #1126431: wireless-regdb: Unnecessary Build-Depends: python3-m2crypto
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 2026.02.04-1 to unstable
    - uploaded version 2026.02.04-1~deb12u1 to bookworm
    - uploaded version 2026.02.04-1~deb13u1 to trixie
  - (LTS) updated the bullseye-security branch to 2026.02.04-1, but did not upload it
Debian non-package bugs:
- release.debian.org:
  - opened #1128507: trixie-pu: package wireless-regdb/2026.02.04-1~deb13u1
  - opened #1128510: bookworm-pu: package wireless-regdb/2026.02.04-1~deb12u1
Mailing lists:
- debian-kernel:
  - posted Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2026-02-04
  - posted Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2026-02-25
  - (LTS) replied to Discrepancies between Commits list in changelog of debian and upstream linux git repo.
  - (LTS) replied to [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Processed: retitle 1124549 to libvirt passes invalid flags for network interface deletion …, tagging 1124549
  - replied to linux 7.0
- debian-lts-announce:
  - posted [SECURITY] [DLA 4475-1] linux security update
  - posted [SECURITY] [DLA 4476-1] linux-6.1 security update
- klibc:
  - replied to [PATCH 1/2] [klibc] explicitly close arm64 syscall stub generator output
  - replied to [PATCH] [klibc] fix arm stub alignment
  - replied to [PATCH] [klibc] remove unneeded syscalls.mk dependencies
- linux-hwmon:
  - replied to [PATCH] hwmon: (max16065) Use READ/WRITE_ONCE to avoid compiler optimization induced race
- linux-wireless:
  - posted [PATCH] wireless-regdb: Fix regulatory.bin signing with new M2Crypto
  - posted [PATCH] wireless-regdb: Replace M2Crypto with cryptography package
- platform-driver-x86:
  - replied to [PATCH] platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Support allocations of larger data
- stable:
  - (LTS) replied to Please apply commit 9990ddf47d41 (“net: tunnel: make skb_vlan_inet_prepare() return drop reasons”) down to 6.1.y at least
  - (LTS) reviewed and replied to various patches for 5.10 … … …
  - (LTS) posted [PATCH 5.10,5.15] ip6_tunnel: Fix usage of skb_vlan_inet_prepare()
  - replied to [PATCH 6.12 519/567] gpiolib: acpi: Move quirks to a separate file