Debian Fun in February 2017

Thu, 2 Mar 2017 10:15:22 GMT

Debian LTS

February marked the 22nd month I contributed to Debian LTS under the Freexian umbrella. I had 8 hours allocated which I used by:

the 2nd half of a LTS frontdesk week

an update to lts-cve-triage.py so we don't ignore undetermined issues anymore

testing the bind9 update prepared by Thorsten Alteholz

testing of apache2 packages prepared by Jonas Meurer and Antoine Beaupré

triaging of QEMU CVEs and fixing most if them resulting in DLA-842-1

Other Debian stuff

libvirt and gtk-vnc uploads to fix CVEs in unstable and stretch

A git-buildpackage upload to unstable to unbreak importing large histories with import-dsc

Some CSS improvements for git-buildpackage to (hopefully) make the manual easier to read.

Some other Free Software activities

Nothing exciting, just some minor fixes at several places:

Some minor improvements to libplanfahr's trip-query to make it more useful

Made the logging more useful in ldapsp (a realm smart proxy for the Foreman)

Some bug fixes for network-manager-iodine (a iodine plugin for NetworkManager)

Flake8 cleanups in ansible_foreman_module (a ansible module to create hosts in the Foreman)

Added a unit file to simplec (A service to provide IPs of libvirt based VMs via DNS)

Made Gource use https to fetch it's submodules

A PR for the Foreman to not rebuild already correct DNS entries (which needs a respin)

Several fixes for ansible_spec (some of them pending review)