Debian Fun in January 2016

Wed, 10 Feb 2016 07:10:13 GMT

Debian LTS

January was the ninth month I contributed to Debian LTS under the Freexian umbrella. In total I spent 13 hours working on:

LTS Frontdesk duties like the triaging of 34 CVEs. That was about twice as much CVEs coming as during December's frontdesk work.

I looked into what needs to be done DLA wise when we move from Squeeze to Wheezy. For that I added a script do find discrepancies between Squeeze LTS and Wheezy.

I uploaded giflib to squeeze-lts(DLA-389-1), wheezy(#812363) and jessie(#812362) proposed updates.

I forward ported the fix for CVE-2015-5291 for polarssl to Wheezy adding autopkgtests on the way (#812420) (forward port to Jessie happend in February)

I forward ported a patch for freetype fixing CVE-2014-9674 to wheezy(DSA-3461-1) - Jessie being not affected.

Finally I added some basic autopkgtests to icu (#813338).

There was no progress on using the same nss in all suites. This will continue in February as does the Squeeze-lts Wheezy forward porting.

Other Debian stuff

I uploaded libvirt 1.3.1~rc1 and 1.3.1~rc2 to experimental and 1.3.1 final to unstable.

Released git-buildpackage 0.7.2