LTS Report for April 2018 - Abhijith PA

2018-05-04 Thread Abhijith PA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 April 2018 was my third month as a Debian LTS paid contributor. I was assigned 10 hours but I only able to do 5. I am carrying rest to May. I have spent these hours on; * sharutils: Investigated on CVE-2018-197 and marked wheezy version as

LTS Report for April 2018

2018-05-01 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
For April I spent 7 hours on the following: - gcc-4.9: after the determination was made that backporting the retpoline patches to gcc-4.6 was infeasible, work began on backporting gcc-4.9 from jessie; I encountered issues beyond my expertise and Ben Hutchings took this over and completed the