From a65fdde9f2943b4af88e82ea560eb7405af6e8c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Watson Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 12:34:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Free software activity in April 2024 --- content/activity-2024-04.md | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/activity-2024-04.md diff --git a/content/activity-2024-04.md b/content/activity-2024-04.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d09a2f24 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/activity-2024-04.md @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +Title: Free software activity in April 2024 +Slug: activity-2024-04 +Date: 2024-05-01 12:34:15 +01:00 +Category: columbiform +Tags: activity, columbiform, freexian, planet-debian, planet-ubuntu + +My Debian contributions this month were all +[sponsored](https://www.freexian.com/about/debian-contributions/) by +Freexian. + + * I'm trying to get back into bugs.debian.org administration, so I spent + some time catching up on my `owner@bugs.debian.org` mailbox and answering + a number of support requests there. + * I fixed a regression I'd introduced last year where groff's PDF output + had invalid date headers, both + [upstream](https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=0815e503dba8d5c05921d68c6c718fe8f8440ee8) + and [in Debian](https://bugs.debian.org/1069902). + * I released [man-db + 2.12.1](https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/man-db-announce/2024-04/msg00000.html). + * openssh: + * I did a little more testing of Luca Boccassi's + [modifications](https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2641#c23) + to upstream's inline systemd notification patch. + * I did an extensive + [review](https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/04/msg00044.html) + of some of the choices in Debian's OpenSSH packaging, in light of last + month's [xz-utils backdoor](https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/). + * I fixed a build failure on ppc64el, [forwarded + upstream](https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3673#c2). + * I [proposed](https://bugs.debian.org/1068311) reducing shared library + linkage in tcp-wrappers; its maintainer accepted this by disabling NIS + support. + * I applied a [suggestion](https://bugs.debian.org/1069706) to improve + ordering of systemd services in relation to `nss-user-lookup.target`. + * I updated putty to 0.81. + * Python team: + * I fixed build/autopkgtest failures in + [cytoolz](https://bugs.debian.org/1069360) ([upstream + PR](https://github.com/pytoolz/cytoolz/pull/205)), nbconvert (due to + [sphinx](https://bugs.debian.org/1042699) and + [lxml-html-clean](https://bugs.debian.org/1068349) changes), + [python-argcomplete](https://bugs.debian.org/1069816), + [python-exceptiongroup](https://bugs.debian.org/1069817), + [readability](https://bugs.debian.org/1069756), + [toolz](https://bugs.debian.org/1069818) ([upstream + PR](https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz/pull/578)), and + [topplot](https://bugs.debian.org/1069608). + * I made a [merge + request](https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/pyferret/-/merge_requests/3) + to fix a [build failure](https://bugs.debian.org/1058888) in pyferret. + * I fixed a + [mistake](https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-ecdsa/-/commit/3a95d8623d28d73c8c7877e6c3ddd5ee43e33ca4) + in a Debian patch to python-ecdsa, noticed while updating jsonpickle. + * I updated cachelib, dnsdiag, feedparser, jsonpickle, pywavelets + (fixing a [distutils dependency](https://bugs.debian.org/1068805)), + python-aiohttp-session, python-avro, python-rstr, vine (including an + [upstream packaging tweak](https://github.com/celery/vine/pull/109), + and wtforms to new upstream versions. + * I did some inconclusive investigation of [flaky tests in + gcr4](https://bugs.debian.org/1057562). More work is needed there. + * I proposed a patch for a build failure in gyoto, both + [upstream](https://github.com/gyoto/Gyoto/pull/17) and [in + Debian](https://bugs.debian.org/1066788). + +You can support my work directly via +[Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/cjwatson). -- 2.30.2