Debian Fun in October 2016

Thu, 3 Nov 2016 18:09:03 GMT

Debian LTS

October marked the eighteenth month I contributed to Debian LTS under the Freexian umbrella. I spent 10 hours (out of allocated 9)

updating Icedove to 45.4 resulting in DLA-658-1

looking into current xen issues and handling the communication with credativ

investigating QEMU CVE-2016-7466 in Wheezy and Jessie

backporting patches for qemu-kvm to fix 9 CVEs resulting in DLA-689-1

starting with lts frontdesk (more on that next month)

Other Debian stuff

Carsten and myself had the chance to talk at the Kopano conference about Debian and the state of Kopano in Debian (slides)

Uploaded kopanocore to unstable, currently waiting in new

Several Libvirt and Libvirt (2.3.0, 2.4.0~rc*) related uploads (libvirt 2.3.0, libvirt-python, ruby-libvirt 0.7.0)

Uploaded libosinfo 1.0.0 to experimental. This version has the osinfo database split out into its own source package (osinfo-db, waiting in new) so the operating system and hypervisor information is updateable during a stable release without having to update the library itself

Some other Free Software activities

Fixed some issues in ansible-spec

Made specinfra handle libvirt lxc containers like lxc containers

Fixed an error in calypso that made us potentially remove the wrong entries, added travis ci support and started looking into python-vobjects unicode breackage