Debian Fun in March 2016

Sat, 9 Apr 2016 20:00:05 GMT

Debian LTS

March was the eleventh month I contributed to Debian LTS under the Freexian umbrella. In total I spent 13 hours (of allocated 11.00 + 5.25h from last month) working on preparing for wheezy-lts:

Uploaded aptdaemon to {old-,}stable-proposed-updates (#818006, #818007)

Fix CVE-2012-6700, CVE-2012-6769 CVE-2012-6768, in Wheezy's dhcpcd resulting in DSA-3534

Reach out to Debian's Xen and KVM maintainers, Xen's community manager and several company to asses LTS maintainability

Research and propose a possible way forward for QEMU and libvirt

Upload a backport of libvirt to wheezy-backports for that

Prepare a fix for Wheezy's gtk+3.0 for CVE-2013-7447 (#818090) and propose it for oldstable-p-u (#819362)

Looked into Wheezy's lxc and CVE-2015-1335 specifically and marking it as no-dsa after discussion with the security-team.

Make bin/support-ended.py support EOL dates

Review Antiones nss work for Wheezy and work on the corresponding update for Jessie in order (to be finished this month).

Other Debian things

Uploaded several libvirt related packages like ruby-libvirt 0.6.0, libvirt-glib 0.2.3 and libvirt-sandbox 0.5.1+git20151113, libvirt 1.3.3~rc1

Uploaded git-buildpackage 0.7.3

Preparations for the 9th Debian Groupware Meeting