Debian Fun in January 2017

Thu, 2 Feb 2017 16:48:57 GMT

Debian LTS

November marked the 21st month I contributed to Debian LTS under the Freexian umbrella. I had 8 hours allocated which I used for:

the first half of a LTS front desk week

updating icedove 45.6.0 resulting in DLA-782-1 fixing 8 CVEs

releasing DLA-783-1 for XEN, the actual update was provided by credativ

testing the bind9 update prepared by Thorsten Alteholz

fixing 8 CVEs in imagemagick resulting in DLA-807-1.

work on recent qemu CVEs

Other Debian stuff

Usual bunch of libvirt and related uploads

Uploaded git-buildpackage 0.8.10 to 0.8.12.1 to experimental and unstable fixing (among other things) a long standing bug when using multiple tarballs with filters and pristine-tar as well as making generated orig tarballs reproducible so one gets identical tarballs even without pristine-tar.

Ran a gbp import-dsc of unstable and filed bugs for cases where pristine-tar would not import the package. Started to look into git-apply errors.

Some other Free Software activites

libplanfahr: switched the example to python3 and made it parse arguments without date as "today":

$ ./run python examples/trip-query.py --when=21:00 Essen Gelsenkirchen
Loaded provider de_db
Start: Essen Hbf
End: Gelsenkirchen Hbf
Trip #1
       Start:     Essen Hbf
       Departure: 2017-02-02 21:18
       Delay:     0
       End:       Gelsenkirchen Hbf
       Arrival:   2017-02-02 21:26
       Delay:     0
       Switches:  0


Trip #2
       Start:     Essen Hbf
       Departure: 2017-02-02 21:22
       Delay:     0
       End:       Gelsenkirchen Hbf
       Arrival:   2017-02-02 21:33
       Delay:     0
       Switches:  0


Trip #3
       Start:     Essen Hbf
       Departure: 2017-02-02 21:44
       Delay:     0
       End:       Gelsenkirchen Hbf
       Arrival:   2017-02-02 21:52
       Delay:     0
       Switches:  0

Proposed a workaround to rbvmomi to massively speedup cloning under certain conditions when using CachedOVFDeployer

Proposed a fix to unbreak ansible's zypper module on first installations

Made ausroller use git-buildpackage from pypi on non Debian based distros

Made further progess on the Merkur board clones