FOSS activity in November 2023
- Reviewed changes to Debian package building in upstream Linux.
- Attended the Debian LTS monthly meeting on IRC.
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Reviewed the following merge requests:
- linux: [ia64] Workaround an ICE when built with gcc-13 (proposed a less invasive fix)
- linux: Remove architectures not existing in Debian (ongoing discussion)
- linux: Build linux-libc-dev as arch-all package (proposed further changes: d/rules.real: Change linux-libc-dev installation again)
- linux: Merge lintian and piupart jobs (suggested further simplification)
- linux: Remove use of linux-compiler packages (queried)
- linux: [x86] Various drivers for ChromeOS devices (merged)
- linux: [arm64] Enable configs for MediaTek MT8173 and MT8183 Chromebooks (merged)
- linux: [arm64] Enable more hardware for RK3399 ChromeOS tablets (merged)
- linux: debian/salsa-ci.yml: Replace except: with rules: and Enable build arm64 on the default branch (changes requested; now merged)
- linux: d/changelog: Move changelog items before 5.10 to changelog.old (proposed alternate change)
- linux: [arm64] Increase max CPU count to 512 (queried)
- Updated the linux package for Debian 10 "buster" to 4.19.299, but didn't make an upload.
- Attended mini-DebConf Cambridge and the preceding mini-DebCamp, although I was absent on Sunday due to illness.
- Updated the backports of linux in bullseye-backports and bookworm-backports.
- Proposed fix for build regression for linux with upstream version 6.6.
- With some help from Helmut Grohne, updated kernel team maintained packages to move files under /usr: ethtool, firmware-free, firmware-nonfree, iw, klibc, ktls-utils, kup, linux, wireless-regdb.
- Proposed changes to dput-ng for better compatiblity with dput: