Focus
This month I didn't have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble.
Changes
- gadget-tool: build cleanup
- bootstrappable.org: https (1 2)
- iotop-py: fix crash, handle Linux kernel API changes (1 2)
- jq: document security issue
- esprima-python: cleanup typos, links, license mistakes
- feed2exec: save page resources in wayback machine plugin
- purple-discord: add missing linking, fix compile warnings
- check-all-the-things: remove duplicate TODO, add pigz-test check
- devscripts: sync BTS tags
- Debian puppet: block BTS spammer
- Debian package uploads: pytest-rerunfailures, purple-discord (1 2), harmony, quesoglc
- Debian wiki pages: AutomatedUpgrade, Debhelper, DebianInstaller/Build, DebianInstaller/Loader/SuspectedVirus, Derivatives/Census (Pengwin, Quirinux), DeveloperNews, Hardware/Database, InstallingDebianOn/Turris/Omnia, Printing, StaticLinking, Statistics, SuitesAndReposExtension, Teams/ReleaseTeam/ReleaseCheckList
- FOSSjobs wiki pages: Resources
Issues
- Crashes in lintian-brush, gnome-shell-extension-shortcuts
- Broken symlinks in speech-dispatcher, ucx
- Dependency bloat in librecaptcha
- Test hangs in pyemd
- Features in apt-listchanges, evolution (1 2 3), baobab, pipewire, reportbug (1 2), systemd-coredump (1 2), find-dbgsym-packages (1 2), gdb
- Syntax highlighting issues in gtksourceview (1 2)
- Outdated links in duktape
- License change needed in cloudflared
- Rebuild needed for ricochet-im
- New versions of pidgin
- Usability issues in GNOME Keyring certificate viewer (also mistakenly filed against Firefox)
- Underlinking in ucx
- False positives in lintian
- Security issues in systemd-coredump (sent privately, rejected)
Review
- Spam: reported 1 Sourceware Bugzilla comment, 1 KDE Bugzilla comment, 580 Debian bug reports and 178 Debian mailing list posts
- Debian packages: sponsored iotop-c backports
- Debian wiki: RecentChanges for the month
- Debian BTS usertags: changes for the month
- Debian screenshots:
- approved ark audacious bpfmon chameleon-cursor-theme chromium color-picker convertall convert-pgn cpufrequtils cpuid cpuidtool cpulimit cpustat dclock desktop-base docker.io elementary-xfce-icon-theme engrampa ephoto eterm exadrums exifprobe exiftags file-roller firefox fspanel imgp ipython3 linphone-desktop linux-cpupower live-image-xfce-desktop lxqt-archiver mate-desktop mwm network-manager nm-tray pamix pulsemixer python3-pip supertuxkart transmission-remote-gtk xarchiver xfce4 xfce4-datetime-plugin xscreensaver
- rejected fonts-recommended (just debian/control), obfsproxy (private data), gpart/p7zip/p7zip-full/unzip/unrar (usage), cruft (doesn't show use of tool), weboob-qt/acetoneiso/klettres (screenshot of screenshots website), default-jre-headless/minetest-mod-basic-materials (illustration), gamine/weboob-qt/libstdc++6/med-imaging (photograph), drumstick-tools (wrong package), totem (newspaper article)
Administration
- Debian BTS: reopened bugs closed by a spammer
- Debian wiki: unblock IP addresses, approve accounts
Communication
- Respond to queries from Debian users and contributors on the mailing lists and IRC
Sponsors
The purple-discord/harmony/pyemd/librecaptcha/esprima-python work was sponsored by my employer. All other work was done on a volunteer basis.