Free software activity in November 2024
Most of my Debian contributions this month were sponsored by Freexian.
You can also support my work directly via Liberapay.
Conferences
I attended MiniDebConf Toulouse 2024, and the MiniDebCamp before it. Most of my time was spent with the Freexian folks working on debusine; Stefano gave a talk about its current status with a live demo (frantically fixed up over the previous couple of days, as is traditional) and with me and others helping to answer questions at the end. I also caught up with some people I haven’t seen in ages, ate a variety of delicious cheeses, and generally had a good time. Many thanks to the organizers and sponsors!
After the conference, Freexian collaborators spent a day and a half doing some planning for next year, and then went for an afternoon visiting the Cité de l’espace.
Rust team
I upgraded these packages to new upstream versions, as part of upgrading pydantic and rpds-py:
- rust-archery
- rust-jiter (noticing an upstream test bug in the process)
- rust-pyo3 (fixing CVE-2024-9979)
- rust-pyo3-build-config
- rust-pyo3-ffi
- rust-pyo3-macros
- rust-pyo3-macros-backend
- rust-regex
- rust-regex-automata
- rust-regex
- rust-serde
- rust-serde-derive
- rust-serde-json
- rust-speedate
- rust-triomphe
Python team
Last month, I mentioned that we still need to work out what to do about the multipart vs. python-multipart name conflict in Debian (#1085728). We eventually managed to come up with an agreed plan; Sandro has uploaded a renamed binary package to experimental, and I’ve begun work on converting reverse-dependencies (asgi-csrf, fastapi, python-curies, and starlette done so far). There’s a bit more still to do, but I expect we can finish it soon.
I fixed problems related to adding Python 3.13 support in:
- coreapi
- git-repo-updater
- offlineimap3
- ptyprocess
- pytest-testinfra
- python-formencode
- python-iniparse
- python-line-profiler
- python-parameterized
- python-sdjson (contributed upstream)
- python-testfixtures (contributed upstream)
- python-venusian
- sphinx-a4doc (contributed upstream, and I also made a small antlr4 improvement)
- webpy
I fixed some packaging problems that resulted in failures any time we add a new Python version to Debian:
I fixed other build/autopkgtest failures in:
- psycopg3 (contributed upstream)
- python-aiohttp
- python-cotengrust
- python-distutils-extra
- python-formencode
- python-openapi-schema-validator
- python-openapi-spec-validator
- sphinxcontrib-towncrier
I packaged python-quart-trio, needed for a new upstream version of python-urllib3, and contributed a small packaging tweak upstream.
I backported a twisted fix that caused problems in other packages, including breaking debusine‘s tests.
I disentangled some upstream version confusion in python-catalogue, and upgraded to the current upstream version.
I upgraded these packages to new upstream versions:
- aioftp (fixing a Python 3.13 failure)
- ansible-core
- ansible
- debugpy
- jsonpickle
- manuel
- psycopg2
- pydantic-core
- pydantic
- pydantic-settings
- pymssql (fixing a Python 3.13 failure)
- pyodbc (fixing a Python 3.13 failure)
- python-argh (fixing a Python 3.13 failure)
- python-boltons (fixing a Python 3.13 failure)
- python-channels-redis
- python-colorlog (fixing a Python 3.13 failure)
- python-django-pgtrigger
- python-line-profiler
- python-pathvalidate (fixing a Python 3.13 failure)
- python-plac (fixing a Python 3.13 failure)
- python-precis-i18n
- python-pure-eval (fixing a Python 3.13 failure)
- python-pythonjsonlogger (contributing a small packaging fix upstream, as well as a test fix to jupyter-events)
- python-rdata (fixing a Python 3.13 failure)
- python-semantic-release
- python-telethon (fixing a Python 3.13 failure, and contributing some test fixes upstream)
- python-tornado (fixing CVE-2024-52804)
- python-trio (fixing a Python 3.13 failure)
- python-trustme
- python-typeguard
- python-urllib3 (fixing CVE-2024-37891 and a Python 3.13 failure, and requiring some shenanigans with its hypercorn test-dependency)
- python-zipp
- quart (fixing CVE-2024-49767)
- rpds-py (fixing a build failure)
- sen
- sqlparse
- stravalib
- transaction
- waitress
- zope.interface
Other small fixes
I contributed Incus support to needrestart upstream.
In response to Helmut’s Cross building talk at MiniDebConf Toulouse, I fixed libfilter-perl to support cross-building (5b4c2e10, f9788c27).
I applied a patch to move aliased files from / to /usr in iprutils
(#1087733).
I adjusted debconf to use the new /usr/lib/apt/apt-extracttemplates path
(#1087523).
I upgraded putty to 0.82.
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