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13 April 2025
FOSS activity in March 2025
- debian-kernel mailing list:
  - replied to “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-03-05”
  - posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-03-26” (and once more in this thread)
- debian-lts-announce mailing list:
  - posted “[SECURITY] [DLA 4075-1] linux security update”
  - posted “[SECURITY] [DLA 4076-1] linux-6.1 security update”
  - posted “[SECURITY] [DLA 4102-1] linux-6.1 security update”
- Debian firmware-free package:
  - Merge requests:
    - opened and merged !8: Use local copy of debian_linux Python package instead of linux-support
    - opened and merged !7: Add release-update script
- Debian firmware-nonfree package:
  - Bugs:
  - Merge requests:
- initramfs mailing list:
  - posted “initramfs-tools 0.146 release”
  - posted “[ANNOUNCE] klibc 2.0.14”
- Debian initramfs-tools package:
  - Bugs:
  - Merge requests:
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 0.146 to unstable
    - uploaded version 0.147 to unstable
- Debian iproute2 package:
  - Bugs:
- Debian klibc package:
  - Bugs:
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 2.0.14-1 to unstable
- Debian kmod package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1059518: kmod: modprobe –show-depends may not show all softdeps
- Debian kup package:
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !2: Recommends: gpg-agent instead of gnupg-agent (Closes: #1064112)
- Debian linux package:
  - Bugs:
  - Merge requests:
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded linux-6.1 version 6.1.129-1~deb11u1 to bullseye-security
- linux-block mailing list:
  - replied to “[PATCH V3] block: fix conversion of GPT partition name to 7-bit” (and once more in this thread)
- linux-clk mailing list:
  - posted “CVE-2024-50181: clk: imx: Remove CLK_SET_PARENT_GATE for DRAM mux for i.MX7D”
- linux-kbuild mailing list:
  - replied to “[PATCH] kbuild, rust: use -fremap-path-prefix to make paths relative”
  - replied to “[PATCH v2] kbuild: make all file references relative to source root”
- linux-kselftest mailing list:
  - posted “CVE-2024-56741: apparmor: test: Fix memory leak for aa_unpack_strdup()”
- linux-perf-users mailing list:
  - posted “[PATCH 0/2] perf docs: Fix build with asciidoctor” (and several times more in this thread)
- linux-rt-users mailing list:
  - posted “[PATCH 5.10] rt: Fix buid issue in be2net”
- linux-spi mailing list:
  - posted “CVE-2021-47469: spi: Fix deadlock when adding SPI controllers on SPI buses”
- netdev mailing list:
  - posted “[PATCH iproute2 1/2] color: Introduce and use default_color_opt() function” (and once more in this thread)
  - posted “[PATCH iproute2 0/2] Improve coloured text readability” (and several times more in this thread)
- ntb mailing list:
  - posted “CVE-2023-52917: ntb: intel: Fix the NULL vs IS_ERR() bug for debugfs_create_dir()”
- Debian osk-sdl package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1089929: initramfs-tools: update-initramfs fails to generate initrd on arm64 (pinephone)
- stable mailing list:
  - replied to “[PATCH 5.4,5.10 2/2] udf: Fix use of check_add_overflow() with mixed type arguments”
  - replied to “[PATCH 5.10 462/462] net: ipv6: fix dst refleaks in rpl, seg6 and ioam6 lwtunnels”
  - replied to “[PATCH 5.15 620/620] net: ipv6: fix dst refleaks in rpl, seg6 and ioam6 lwtunnels”
- Debian wireless-regdb package:
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 2025.02.20-1 to unstable
13 April 2025
FOSS activity in February 2025
- debian-events-eu mailing list:
  - posted “Debian BSP in Leuven, March/April”
- debian-kernel mailing list:
- Debian initramfs-tools package:
  - Merge requests:
- Debian linux package:
  - Bugs:
  - Updated the bullseye-security branch to upstream version 5.10.234
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 5.10.234-1 to bullseye-security
    - uploaded linux-6.1 version 6.1.128-1~deb11u1 to bullseye-security
- stable mailing list:
  - posted “[PATCH 5.4,4.10 1/2] perf cs-etm: Add missing variable in cs_etm__process_queues()” (and several more times in this thread)
13 April 2025
FOSS activity in January 2025
- debian-kernel mailing list:
  - posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2025-01-15” (and once more in that thread)
- debian-lts-announce mailing list:
  - posted “[SECURITY] [DLA 4008-1] linux-6.1 security update”
- Debian initramfs-tools package:
  - Merge requests:
- Debian jinja-vanish package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1092861: jinja-vanish: please run tests at build time
- Debian kernel-team package:
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !6: Support new linux branch layout
- Debian linux package:
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !1296: d/p/debian/cdc_ncm-cdc_mbim-use-ncm-by-default.patch: drop
  - Updated the bullseye-security branch, but didn’t upload
- Debian wireless-regdb package:
  - Bugs:
    - closed #1092796: Autopkgtests fail with Python 3.13: OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !6: d/tests/check-signatures: Fix subprocess cleanup
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 2024.10.07-2 to unstable
13 April 2025
FOSS activity in December 2024
- Debian cdrom bugs:
  - updated #1090340: cdrom: Debian 12 missing drivers for HyperV 2008 R2
- debian-kernel mailing list:
  - posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2024-12-04” (and once more in that thread)
  - replied to “Debug symbols for linux-image-5.10.0-20-amd64”
- Debian firmware-free package:
  - Merge requests:
    - opened and merged !6: Update to current upstream and linux-support versions
    - merged !5: Update to current upstream and linux-support versions
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 20241210-1 to unstable
- Debian firmware-nonfree package:
  - Merge requests:
    - opened and merged !112: Update to current upstream and linux-support versions
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 20241210-1 to unstable
- Debian linux package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1089521: linux-image-6.12.3-amd64 fails to boot due to Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 error
  - Updated the bullseye branch to upstream version 5.10.233, but didn’t upload
- netdev mailing list:
  - replied to “cpu_rmap maps CPUs to wrong interrupts after reprogramming affinities”
13 April 2025
FOSS activity in November 2024
- debian-boot mailing list:
  - posted “partman recipes and deprecation of ext2” (and once more in that thread)
  - posted “Moving kernel modules under /usr/lib in installer”
- debian-devel mailing list:
- debian-kernel mailing list:
  - posted “Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2024-11-06”
  - posted “PSA: Renaming branches in kernel-team repositories” (and several more times in that thread)
- Debian firmware-nonfree package:
  - Merge requests:
    - opened and merged !110: Update to linux-support-6.11.10
- Debian initramfs-tools package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1087697: Mkinitramfs causes machines to fail booting when used with LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !128: Put compressed kernel modules and firmware in an uncompressed cpio
- Debian linux package:
- Debian procps package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1088203: linux-sysctl-defaults: apply setting after installation
- Debian systemd package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1085160: linux-sysctl-defaults: apply setting after installation
- Debian tech-ctte bugs:
  - updated #1065416: linux-libc-dev claims to provide linux-libc-dev-ARCH-cross, but it doesn’t do that completely
13 April 2025
FOSS activity in October 2024
- debian-boot mailing list:
  - replied to “Uploaded linux (6.11.2-1)”
  - replied to “Passing module option to d-i [Was: Avoiding prompt if no sound card is detected speakup.synth=soft]”
- debian-devel mailing list:
  - replied to “signify and signify-openbsd names” (and several times more in that thread)
  - replied to “Epoch for src:fuse-ext2 to replace src:fuse-umfuse-ext2’s fuseext2 binary” (and once more in that thread)
  - replied to “lintian preventing uploads”
- debian-kernel mailing list:
- debian-lts-announce mailing list:
  - posted “[SECURITY] [DLA 3912-1] linux security update”
- Debian firmware-nonfree package:
  - Bugs:
    - closed #1084791: firmware-realteak: trying to overwrite ‘/usr/lib/firmware/rtl_bt/rtl8723cs_xx_config.bin’
  - Merge requests:
    - opened !109: realtek: Add Conflicts and Replaces against firmware-realtek-rtl8723cs-bt
    - merged !107: Update to 20240909; improve orig tarball generation
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 20240811-1 to unstable
    - uploaded version 20240909-1 to unstable
    - uploaded version 20240909-2 to unstable
- Debian initramfs-tools package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1084232: initramfs-tools: update-initramfs fails with “No space left on device” due to 2 temporary initrd copies in /boot
  - Merge requests:
    - merged !136: Fix copy_file again; expand documentation and add tests
    - merged !135: hook-functions: fixes for Qualcomm platforms
- Debian linux package:
- linux-trace-kernel mailing list:
  - replied to “tools/rtla: Fix installation from out-of-tree build”
- linux-watchdog mailing list:
  - posted “DL380 instability with hpwdt”
  - replied to “DL380 instability with hpwdt”
- Debian systemd package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #1085160: linux-sysctl-defaults: apply setting after installation
- Debian wireguard package:
  - Bugs:
    - updated #993985: wireguard should not depend on wireguard-dkms now that wireguard is in mainline
- Debian wireless-regdb package:
  - Uploads:
    - uploaded version 2024.10.07-1 to unstable
10 October 2024
FOSS activity in September 2024
- I continued to attend and soemtimes chair Debian kernel team meetings
- For the Debian firmware-nonfree package:
  - I opened the MRs:
    - !105: nvidia-graphics: Add versioned Breaks on initramfs-tools to avoid bug #1076539
    - !107: Update to 20240909; improve orig tarball generation
  - I reviewed the MRs:
    - !79: Improve maintainer scripts of firmware-nonfree
    - !102: Backport firmware-nonfree 20240709-2~bpo12+1 to Bookworm (merged)
    - !103: Add missing symlinks for tas2563 and tas2781 (merged)
    - !106: Update to 20240811 (merged)
  - I merged my own MRs:
    - !104: Update to linux-support-6.10.6
    - !105: nvidia-graphics: Add versioned Breaks on initramfs-tools to avoid bug #1076539
  - I uploaded:
    - version 20240709-2 to unstable
    - version 20240709-2~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
  - I respnded to bug reports:
    - #1080492: firmware-nonfree: [i915] With 20240709-2, the external monitors randomly blank for 2-3 seconds (regression) (closed)
- For the kernel-team repository:
  - I reviewed and merged the MR !5: git-format-patch-for-debian: Support for sourcehut
  - I deleted some obsolete text from the kernel upload checklist
- For the Debian linux package:
  - I announced the end of i386 kernel packages
  - I opened or updated the MRs:
  - I reviewed the MRs:
    - !675: [arm64] drivers/usb/host: Enable USB_XHCI_PCI_RENESAS as module (Closes: #1032671)
    - !1732: [x86] linux-cpupower: Add intel-speed-select command (rebased and merged)
    - !1038: debian/rules.real: export LANG = C.UTF-8 for sphinx (closed)
    - !1041: Add “-b” flag to genorig.py (closed)
    - !1065: Enable UBSAN_BOUNDS and UBSAN_SHIFT (closed)
    - !1166: [amd64] Enable CRYPTO_DEV_IAA_CRYPTO (merged)
    - !1169: [arm64] Add additional kernel with 64k page size
    - !1172: debian/config: add DAMON support for debian kernel (merged)
    - !1177: powerpc: Explicitly disable CRASH_DUMP on 32-bit” (merged)
    - !1178: mm: set CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE=y on most 64-bit architectures, not only amd64 (merged)
    - !1185: riscv64: fix module duplication detected by kernel-wedge starting with version 2.106 (merged)
    - !1186: [arm64] udeb: fix duplicated modules (merged)
    - !1192: [loong64] enable LBT, KVM and para-virt support (merged)
    - !1193: [arm64] Update rk3588 platform support (merged)
    - !1195: [arm64] enable Qualcomm X Elite support (merged)
    - !1196: [arm64] include modules for Rockchip RK3588 (closed)
    - !1198: Revert “Make linux-libc-dev provide all cross packages” (merged)
    - !1204: [arm64] Enable drivers for K3-AM642 SoC on SolidRun HummingBoard-T
    - !1207: [rt] Update to 6.11-rc5-rt5 (merged)
    - !1208: Support some Wi-Fi 7 devices (merged)
    - !1211: Set CONFIG_I2C=y on alpha and sparc64 (closed)
    - !1214: [loong64] Enable USB EHCI and OHCI host support (merged)
  - I merged my own MRs:
    - !741: Fix most reproducibility issues
    - !1182: [x86] ACPI: Enable ACPI_EC_DEBUGFS as module (Closes: #980555)
    - !1188: [arm64] udeb: fix duplicated modules
    - !1199: [i386] Stop building kernel packages
    - !1200: Backport CI support to bullseye
    - !1209: Build fixes for rtla
    - !1215: d/rules.real: Try harder to set the locale to C.UTF-8
    - !1218: Clean up udeb configuration
  - I uploaded:
    - linux-6.1 versions 6.1.106-3~deb11u1, 6.1.106-3~deb11u2, and 6.1.106-3~deb11u3 to bullseye-security
    - linux version 6.11-1~exp1 to experimental
  - I updated the bullseye-security branch to upstream version 5.10.226
  - I responded to bug reports:
  - I sent patches upstream:
    - wifi: iwlegacy: Fix “field-spanning write” warning in il_enqueue_hcmd() which is meant to fix bug #1062421
    - tools/rtla: Fix installation from out-of-tree build
  - I sent a new response to Proposal: Switch to linear git history
- For the Debian nfs-utils package:
  - I reviewed the MRs:
    - !8: Fixes for bugs #849942 and #849608 (closed)
    - !32: d/control: nfs-common: Move python3 to Recommends (merged)
  - I closed my own old bug report #711021: mount.nfs timeout for GETPORT is much too short
- For diffoscope:
  - I commented on issue #100: Excessive memory use when comparing Linux Debian .dbg packages to report that the issue still exists, and to provide a reproducer
  - I commented on issue #342: Gets killed trying to diff very large (~5GB) images which seems like a duplicate of #100
  - I opened the MR !145: Draft: Reduce memory usage by revert to using popen() for diff input and output which fixes #100 but needs work to avoid regressions for other cases
- For the Debian nss-wrapper package, I opened MR !4: Replace wrap-and-sort autopkgtest with a CI job
- For the Debian pam-wrapper package, I opened MR !4: Replace wrap-and-sort autopkgtest with a CI job
- For initramfs-tools:
  - I opened the MR !136: Fix copy_file again; expand documentation and add tests
  - I reviewed the MRs:
  - I responded to bug report #1082647: copy_exec: [regression] ignores trailing slash, installs file as directory name (pending)
- For debian-kernel-handbook:
  - I reviwed the MRs:
    - !7: Add disabling SECURITY_LOCKDOWN_LSM to chapter-common-tasks
    - !8: Disable dwarf toolchain default to really disable debug info (merged)
- I responded (belatedly) to Debian tech-ctte bug #1065416: linux-libc-dev claims to provide linux-libc-dev-ARCH-cross, but it doesn’t do that completely
10 September 2024
FOSS activity in August 2024
- For the Debian firmware-nonfree package:
  - I opened the MR:
    - !104: Update to linux-support-6.10.6
  - I reviewed the MRs:
    - !102: Backport firmware-nonfree 20240709-2~bpo12+1 to Bookworm
  - I responded to a query about backporting.
- For the Debian linux package:
  - I opened or updated the MRs:
  - I reviewed the MRs:
  - I merged my own MRs:
    - !1161: Fix and clean up Build-Depends
    - !1164: d/config: Fix broken configs that were being resolved differently by kconfig
    - !1175: Fix perf build failure on many architectures
  - I uploaded:
    - linux version 6.11~rc4-1~exp1 to experimental.
    - linux version 6.11~rc5-1~exp1 to experimental.
    - linux version 6.10.6-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports.
  - Upstream, I commented on additional backports required to address CVE-2024-26621 and CVE-2024-42258.
  - I responded to bug reports:
    - #1072004: linux: regression in the 9p protocol in 6.8 breaks autopkgtest qemu jobs (affecting debci)
  - Upstream, I submitted the patch aacraid: Fix double-free on probe failure which should fix part of bug #1075855.
  - Upstream, I pointed out that the fix in !1175 is needed in Linux 6.11.
  - I updated the bullseye-security branch to upstream version 5.10.224, but didn’t make a new upload.
  - I updated the bullseye-security-6.1 branch, merging changes from version 6.1.106-3.
- For initramfs-tools:
  - I opened and later merged the MRs:
  - I reviewed the MRs:
    - !128: Put compressed kernel modules and firmware in an uncompressed cpio
  - I uploaded:
    - version 0.144 to Debian unstable.
    - version 0.145 to Debian unstable.
    - version 0.142+deb12u1 to Debian bookworm.
  - I responded to Debian bug reports:
- For the Debian iproute package, I reverted the recent removal of the /usr/sbin/ip symlink and uploaded version 6.10.0-2.
- For kernel-wedge:
  - I fixed a bug in duplicate detection that linux !1176 had revealed.
  - I added support for packages installing modules under /usr/lib/modules, and a test case for this.
  - I uploaded version 2.106 to Debian unstable, including the above and some other bug fixes.
- For the Debian sgt-puzzles package, I responded to and wrote a patch for bug #1079717: sgt-puzzles: [Mozaic] crashes when copying the game.
10 September 2024
FOSS activity in July 2024
- I continued participating in Debian kernel team meetings.
- For the Debian linux package:
  - I investigated a regression for nftables introduced in my final upload of linux to buster-security, and passed on the information to the Freexian ELTS team.
  - I uploaded:
    - linux version 6.1.94-1~bpo11+1 to bullseye-backports.
    - linux version 6.8.12-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports.
    - linux version 6.9.7-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports.
    - linux version 6.10-1~exp1 to experimental.
    - linux version 6.1.99-1~bpo11+1 to bullseye-backports (but it was never accepted).
    - linux version 6.10.1-1~exp1 to experimental.
    - linux version 6.9.10-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports.
  - I opened or updated MRs:
  - I reviewed MRs:
  - I merged my own MRs:
    - !1110: d/l/p/debian_linux/firmware.py: Handle RawFile fields
    - !1112: Update d/l/p/debian_linux/firmware.py for current WHENCE format
    - !1119: Update d/b/test-patches to work with current package
    - !1126: [alpha] scsi: Disable SCSI_IMM (fixes FTBFS)
  - To support Debian ELTS, I created branches of the Linux 5.10 and 6.1 packaging with backports of the change to use an ephemeral module signing key.
  - I answered a query about use of the linux-image-*-unsigned packages.
  - I responded to bug reports:
  - Upstream, I commented on how to detect 32-bit architectures in order to fix CVE-2024-42258.
  - Upstream, I submitted the patch xhci-pci: Make xhci-pci-renesas a proper modular driver which is a prerequisite for merging MR !675.
  - I asked the Debian Super-H porters whether the sh7785lcr kernel flavour was useful.
- In dput-ng, I merged my own MR !36: rsync, scp: Fix username lookup.
- In devscripts, I updated and merged my own MR !292: uscan: Allow compression of VCS exports to be disabled. This can make uscan a lot faster for packages that use a VCS as upstream and exclude some files from it.
- For the Debian firmware-nonfree package:
  - I opened MRs:
    - !98: Include or exclude most unpackaged firmware
    - !101: Update to 20240709 and remove some file exclusions
  - I reviewed MRs:
    - !97: misc-nonfree: Add firmware for Gen10 Arm Mali GPUs (merged)
    - !99: ti: Include tas2563 and tas2781 DSP firmware (merged)
    - !100: d/copyright: reenable firmware for Qualcomm qcm2290 and qrb4210 (closed)
  - I merged my own MRs:
    - !96: Update to 20240610
    - !98: Include or exclude most unpackaged firmware
    - !101: Update to 20240709 and remove some file exclusions
  - I uploaded versions 20240610-1 and 20240709-1 to unstable.
  - I responded to bug reports:
    - #1076500: firmware-brcm80211: Contains .txt files with a space
- In the kernel-team repository:
  - I reviewed MRs:
    - !2: Check for the kconfig in /lib/modules/ too (closed)
    - !4: process.py: friendlier error on missing featureset source (merged)
  - I deleted the obsolete script that !2 would have updated.
- For the Debian wireless-regdb package:
  - I reviewed MRs:
    - !4: merge stretch-elts 2022.04.08-1~deb9u1 upload (closed)
    - !5: Upload For LTS (buster) (merged)
- For the Debian nfs-utils package:
  - I opened MR !31: Fixes for handling of state files in /var/lib/nfs in response to bug #1074359: nfs-kernel-server: Updating package unexports all filesystems, and later merged it.
  - I reviewed and merged MR !15: A couple more DEP8 tests.
- For the Debian klibc package:
  - I reviewed MRs:
    - !12: d/i/h/klibc-utils: Fix compatibility issue with busybox and improve verbose debug output. (closed)
    - !13: d/i/h/klibc-utils: Pass --update=none instead of -n to cp (closed)
- For the Debian ktls-utils package:
  - I updated to upstream version 0.11 and uploaded version 0.11-1 to unstable.
- For the Debian initramfs-tools package:
  - I uploaded version 0.143.1 to unstable, with no changes from version 0.143. One of the changes in 0.143 happened to fix the newly reported #1076539: plymouth: Updating plymouth fails with “No space left on device” (and its many duplicates).
  - I reviewed MRs:
  - I responded to bug reports:
- I reported Debian bugs:
- For the Debian a56 package, which is a build-dependency of firmware-free, I made an NMU fixing a build failure with gcc-14 and many compiler warnings. These changes were included in version 1.3+dfsg-11.

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