Free software activity in September 2024
Pydantic v2, OpenSSH 9.9p1, YubiHSM improvements, and more.
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Free software activity in August 2024
All but about four hours of my Debian contributions this month were sponsored by Freexian. (I ended up going a bit over my 20% billing limit this month.)
You can also support my work directly via Liberapay.
man-db and friends
I released libpipeline 1.5.8 and man-db 2.13 …
Free software activity in July 2024
My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian.
You can also support my work directly via Liberapay.
OpenSSH
At the start of the month, I uploaded a quick fix (via Salvatore Bonaccorso) for a regression from CVE-2006-5051, found by Qualys; this was because I expected it to …
Free software activity in June 2024
My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian.
- I switched man-db and putty to
Rules-Requires-Root: no, thanks to a suggestion from Niels Thykier. - I moved some files in pcmciautils as part of the /usr move.
- I upgraded libfido2 to 1.15.0.
- I made an upstream release of …
Free software activity in May 2024
My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian.
The bulk of my Debian time this month went towards trying to haul more Python packages up to current versions, but I got a few other bits and pieces done as well.
- I did a little work on improving debbugs …
Playing with rich
One of the things I do as a side project for Freexian is to work on various bits of business automation: accounting tools, programs to help contributors report their hours, invoicing, that kind of thing. While it’s not quite my usual beat, this makes quite a good side project …
Free software activity in April 2024
My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored 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.orgmailbox and answering a number of support requests there. - I fixed a regression I’d introduced …
Free software activity in March 2024
My Debian contributions this month were all sponsored by Freexian.
- Python team:
- I updated zope.testrunner to 6.4.
- I fixed a build failure in
celery-haystack-ng, which included an
upstream change to stop using
d2to1. - I backported an upstream change to fix a build failure in python-json-log-formatter.
- I updated python-typing-extensions …
apt install everything?
On Mastodon, the question came up of how Ubuntu would deal with something like the npm install everything situation. I replied:
Ubuntu is curated, so it probably wouldn’t get this far. If it did, then the worst case is that it would get in the way of CI allowing …
Free software activity in January/February 2024
Two months into my new gig and it’s going great! Tracking my time has taken a bit of getting used to, but having something that amounts to a queryable database of everything I’ve done has also allowed some helpful introspection.
Freexian sponsors up to 20% of my time …
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