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2 March 2026
FOSS activity in February 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
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4 February 2026
FOSS activity in January 2026
- Debian packages:
  - dracut:
    - Bugs:
      - replied to and reassigned #1124400: update-initramfs no longer includes /lib/modules/<kver>/updates directory
  - flash-kernel:
    - Bugs:
      - closed #1102690: A higher version (…) is still installed, no reflashing required
      - closed #1125327: since linux 6.18, flash-kernel fails to find dtbs in /usr/lib/linux-image-*
    - Uploads:
      - uploaded version 3.110 to unstable
      - uploaded version 3.110~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
  - kernel-sec:
    - Merge requests:
      - opened !30: scripts/import-korg-vulns: Ignore issues in unsupported architectures
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2 January 2026
FOSS activity in December 2025
- Debian packages:
  - firmware-nonfree:
    - Merge requests:
      - reviewed !135: Upgrade to 20251125
  - ktls-utils:
    - Bugs:
      - replied to and closed #1121921: ktls-utils: Deprecated tlshd config path breaks autopkgtests
    - Uploads:
      - uploaded version 1.3.0-2 to unstable
  - linux:
    - Merge requests:
      - reviewed !1723: Draft: Avoid usage of dh_movetousr and also update udebs to use /usr/lib/modules
    - Uploads:
      - (LTS) uploaded version 5.10.247-1 to bullseye-security
      - uploaded version 6.17.13-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
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4 December 2025
FOSS activity in November 2025
- Debian packages:
  - debian-cd:
    - Bugs:
      - replied to #1120055: Please include ifenslave, vlan and possibly bridge-utils to netinst CD
  - firmware-nonfree:
    - Bugs:
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2 November 2025
FOSS activity in October 2025
- Debian packages:
  - firmware-nonfree:
    - Bugs:
      - closed #1118156: Missing Build-Depends on python3-dacite, python3-jinja2
    - Merge requests:
      - closed !129: Retire vorlon from uploaders
      - merged !130: Update firmware-nonfree to 20250917
      - reviewed and merged !131: Update to 20251011
      - merged !132: misc-nonfree: Include all Arm Mali firmware
      - opened and merged !133: Fix another broken symlink and avoid creating more of them
    - Uploads:
      - uploaded version 20250917-1 to unstable
  - gdm3:
    - Bugs:
      - opened #1119809: Black screen after upgrading from 48
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1 October 2025
FOSS activity in September 2025
Last month I attended and spoke at Kangrejos, for which I will post a separate report later. Besides that, here’s the usual categorised list of work:

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3 September 2025
FOSS activity in August 2025
- Debian packages:
  - chrony:
    - Bugs:
      - opened #1111222: 099-scfilter system test is flaky
  - debian-policy:
    - Bugs:
      - opened and replied to #1111126: Copyright format does not explain how to describe a license text itself
  - devscripts:
    - Bugs:
      - opened #1112065: uscan: Regression of handling @PACKAGE@ in upstream URL
  - firmware-free:
    - Merge requests:
      - merged !10: Build CIS files and keyspan_pda firmware from source
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3 August 2025
FOSS activity in July 2025
In July I attended DebCamp and DebConf in Brest, France. I very much enjoyed the opportunity to reconnect with other Debian contributors in person. I had a number of interesting and fruitful conversations there, besides the formally organised BoFs and talks.

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1 July 2025
FOSS activity in June 2025
- Debian packages:
  - debianutils:
    - Bugs:
      - opened and replied to #1107113: installkernel does not run hooks under /usr/share/kernel/postinst.d
  - firmware-nonfree:
    - Uploads:
      - uploaded version 20250509-1 to experimental
      - uploaded version 20250613-1 to experimental
  - gnome-shell:
    - Bugs:
      - opened #1108438: Very slow to start with NFS-mounted home directory
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