Debian Fun in August 2016

Tue, 6 Sep 2016 18:08:51 GMT

Debian LTS

August marked the sixteenth month I contributed to Debian LTS under the Freexian umbrella. I spent 9 hours (of allocated 8) mostly on Rails related CVEs which resulted in DLA-603-1 and DLA-604-1 fixing 6 CVEs and marking others as not affecting the packages. The hardest part was proper testing since the split packages in Wheezy don't allow to run the upstream test suite as is. There's still CVE-2016-0753 which I need to check if it affects activerecord or activesupport.

Additionally I had one relatively quiet week of LTS frontdesk work triaging 10 CVEs.

Other Debian stuff

I uploaded git-buildpackage 0.8.2 to experimental and 0.8.3 to unstable. The later bringing all the enhanements and bugfixes since Debconf 16 to sid and testing.

The usual bunch of libvirt related uploads