Free software activity in June 2025
My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian. This was a very light month; I did a few things that were easy or that seemed urgent for the upcoming trixie release, but otherwise most of my energy went into Debusine. I’ll be giving a talk about that at DebConf in a couple of weeks; this is the first DebConf I’ll have managed to make it to in over a decade, so I’m pretty excited.
You can also support my work directly via Liberapay or GitHub Sponsors.
PuTTY
After reading a bunch of recent discourse about X11 and Wayland, I decided to try switching my laptop (a Framework 13 AMD running Debian trixie with GNOME) over to Wayland. I don’t remember why it was running X; I think I must have either inherited some configuration from my previous laptop (in which case it could have been due to anything up to ten years ago or so), or else I had some initial problem while setting up my new laptop and failed to make a note of it. Anyway, the switch was hardly noticeable, which was great.
One problem I did notice is that my preferred terminal emulator, pterm,
crashed after the upgrade. I run a slightly-modified version from git to
make some small terminal emulation changes that I really must either get
upstream or work out how to live without one of these days, so it took me a
while to notice that it only crashed when running from the packaged version,
because the crash was in code that only runs when pterm has a set-id bit.
I reported this upstream, they quickly fixed
it,
and I
backported
it to the Debian package.
groff
Upstream bug #67169 reported URLs being dropped from PDF output in some cases. I investigated the history both upstream and in Debian, identified the correct upstream patch to backport, and uploaded a fix.
libfido2
I upgraded libfido2 to 1.16.0 in experimental.
Python team
I upgraded pydantic-extra-types to a new upstream version, and fixed some resulting fallout in pendulum.
I updated python-typing-extensions in bookworm-backports, to help fix python3-tango: python3-pytango from bookworm-backports does not work (10.0.2-1~bpo12+1).
I upgraded twisted to a new upstream version in experimental.
I fixed or helped to fix a few release-critical bugs:
- pdfarranger: Fails to start: RuntimeError: context has already been set
- python-covdefaults: FTBFS: E AttributeError: type object ‘Plugins’ has no attribute ‘load_plugins’
- python-jq: FTBFS: E ValueError: jq: error: syntax error, unexpected INVALID_CHARACTER
- python-returns: FTBFS: FAILED returns/future.py::returns.future.Future.do (fixed in python3.13, closed with no action)
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