Here is my public monthly report.
Thanks to our sponsors for making this possible, and to Freexian for
handling the offering.
https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/#sponsors
LTS
- Front-Desk (week 47)
- Update and tidy work queue
- Check bookworm 12.8 updates to apply in LTS
- Mark 7 packages for update
- Drop 2 obsolete entries
- Complement 6 packages statuses
- Triage or precise triage for >15 CVEs
- Question support for twitter-bootstrap3/4
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2024/11/msg00030.html
- twisted
- Non-trivial CVE fixes backports
- Fix test suite and Salsa CI configuration
- DLA-3970-1
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00028.html
- Merge new Git history to python-team's repository
https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/twisted
ELTS
- Front-Desk
- Associate CVEs from newer, branched Debian packages with different
names to older ELTS packages (jetty*, libidn*, netty*, openssl*,
php*, python*, ruby*, squid*, tomcat*)
- Refresh tracking of renamed packages following bullseye switch to
LTS, and identify 2 new renamed packages
- Mark 15 supported packages for update
- Triage or precise triage for >15 CVEs and packages
- twisted (stretch and buster)
- Non-trivial CVE fixes backports, and vulnerability assessments
(new test cases had too much requirements to backport, I had to
rely on Git history and external PoCs)
- Improve test suites and Salsa CI configuration
- ELA-1247-1
https://www.freexian.com/lts/extended/updates/ela-1247-1-twisted/
- ELA-1248-1
https://www.freexian.com/lts/extended/updates/ela-1248-1-twisted/
- Merge new Git history to python-team's repository
https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/twisted
Documentation and tooling
- LTS Documentation
- TestSuites: autopkgtest: update for new dists, information on
targetting a reverse-dependency, improve formatting
https://lts-team.pages.debian.net/wiki/TestSuites/autopkgtest.html
- TestSuites: twisted: update for new dists, precisions
https://lts-team.pages.debian.net/wiki/TestSuites/twisted.html
- Help other contributors on various issues (preparing for galera-4
updates, Git workflow, qemu minor issues, sending LTS announcements)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2024/11/msg00023.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2024/11/msg00031.html
- Internal discussion on guidelines for providing help on specific
packages early (up to unstable); on handling ELAs for multiple dists
with a different set of CVEs
- IRC meeting
https://meetbot.debian.net/debian-lts/2024/debian-lts.2024-11-28-14.00.html
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Sylvain Beucler
Debian LTS Team
