FOSS activity in September 2023

3 December 2023

Discussed the ongoing difficulties in supporting the Debian "marvell" kernel flavour. Reviewed the related merge request to fix armel build regression in Debian 12 "bookworm".
Wrote and recorded a talk for DebConf on What's new in the Linux kernel. Apologies for the poor audio quality; I will use a different microphone if I do this again.
Reviewed Bastian Blank's proposed changes to kernel package versioning and signing in Debian.
Reported several bad backports to some Linux stable branches.
Proposed a build fix for linux 6.5 on s390x.
Updated the linux package for Debian 10 "buster" to 4.19.295, but didn't make an upload.