Free software activity in October 2025
OpenSSH 10.1p1/10.2p1, ansible-core autopkgtests, and the start of Python 3.14 packaging work.
OpenSSH 10.1p1/10.2p1, ansible-core autopkgtests, and the start of Python 3.14 packaging work.
In “Could the XZ backdoor have been detected with better Git and Debian packaging practices?”, Otto contrasts “git-buildpackage managed git repositories” with “dgit managed repositories”, saying that “the dgit managed repositories cannot incorporate the upstream git history and are thus less useful for auditing the full software supply-chain in git …
Regressions, regressions everywhere.
Lots of Python package upgrades, and planning for setup.py install being removed.
DebConf, and a fiddly OpenSSH upgrade problem.
pterm on Wayland, a groff PDF bug, and a few other odds and ends.
Debian work as we reached the hard freeze for trixie.
OpenSSH 10.0 (and a request for help), dput-ng, and more.
Fallout from python-click and dh-python changes; 59 RC bugs fixed.
OpenSSH security fixes; Python team upstream reporting.