Free software activity in April 2024
My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian.
- I’m trying to get back into bugs.debian.org administration, so I spent
some time catching up on my
owner@bugs.debian.orgmailbox and answering a number of support requests there. - I fixed a regression I’d introduced last year where groff’s PDF output had invalid date headers, both upstream and in Debian.
- I released man-db 2.12.1.
- openssh:
- I did a little more testing of Luca Boccassi’s modifications to upstream’s inline systemd notification patch.
- I did an extensive review of some of the choices in Debian’s OpenSSH packaging, in light of last month’s xz-utils backdoor.
- I fixed a build failure on ppc64el, forwarded upstream.
- I proposed reducing shared library linkage in tcp-wrappers; its maintainer accepted this by disabling NIS support.
- I applied a suggestion to improve
ordering of systemd services in relation to
nss-user-lookup.target.
- I updated putty to 0.81.
- Python team:
- I fixed build/autopkgtest failures in cytoolz (upstream PR), nbconvert (due to sphinx and lxml-html-clean changes), python-argcomplete, python-exceptiongroup, readability, toolz (upstream PR), and topplot.
- I made a merge request to fix a build failure in pyferret.
- I fixed a mistake in a Debian patch to python-ecdsa, noticed while updating jsonpickle.
- I updated cachelib, dnsdiag, feedparser, jsonpickle, pywavelets (fixing a distutils dependency), python-aiohttp-session, python-avro, python-rstr, vine (including an upstream packaging tweak, and wtforms to new upstream versions.
- I did some inconclusive investigation of flaky tests in gcr4. More work is needed there.
- I proposed a patch for a build failure in gyoto, both upstream and in Debian.
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