Debian Fun in December 2016

Mon, 9 Jan 2017 08:24:01 GMT

Debian LTS

November marked the 20th month I contributed to Debian LTS under the Freexian umbrella. I had 8 hours allocated which I used by:

some rather quiet frontdesk days

updating icedove to 45.5.1 resulting in DLA-752-1 fixing 7 CVEs

looking whether Wheezy is affected by xsa-202, xsa-203, xsa-204 and handling the communication with credativ for these (update not yet released)

Assessing cURL/libcURL CVE-2016-9586

Assessing whether Wheezy's QEMU is affeced by security issues in 9pfs "proxy" and "handle" code

Releasing DLA-776-1 for samba fixing CVE-2016-2125

Other Debian stuff

Allow travis.debian.net to start services when running autopkgtests

Usual bunch of libvirt and related uploads

Uploaded git-buildpackage 0.8.8 and 0.8.9 to unstable (list of changes)

Some other Free Software activites

Some fixes to libvirt's configure.ac for merged /usr

Made some progress on getting the merkur board clones to life. The first stage bootloader and contiki are working now.

Some ansible_spec fixes for roles in non default directories and robustness

Due to excessive XMPP spam started a jabber-spam-blacklist

Unbroke ansible-module-foreman

Added support to configure Foreman settings via ansible-module-foreman and python-foreman

Speed up VM removal with Foreman and VMware ESX

Started foreman_serverspec a Foreman plugin to store serverspec reports in the Foreman. This is in a very early stage.