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05 Feb 2025

Open Source Activities for January 2025

The trixie freeze dates were announced earlier this month, which means we’re getting closer to the release. The next couple of months will focus on polishing packages prior to the soft/hard freezes and then addressing any significant issues.

Highlights

  • A few packaging updates for incus leading up to the trixie release
    • Added initial SysV init script for users on non-systemd systems
    • Cherry-picked a couple more upstream fixes for changes in qemu 9.2
  • OpenRCT2 v0.4.18 was uploaded to unstable and bookworm-backports

Debian packaging work

Updated the following packages in unstable

  • gobgp
  • golang-github-antchfx-htmlquery
  • golang-github-casbin-casbin
  • golang-github-casbin-govaluate
  • golang-github-digitalocean-go-libvirt
  • golang-github-gosexy-gettext (closed bug #1093560)
  • golang-github-ibm-sarama
  • golang-github-johanneskaufmann-dom
  • golang-github-johanneskaufmann-html-to-markdown
  • golang-github-minio-madmin-go
  • golang-github-minio-minio-go-v7
  • golang-github-minio-pkg
  • golang-github-nats-io-nkeys
  • golang-github-puerkitobio-goquery
  • golang-github-zitadel-oidc
  • incus
  • lxc-ci
  • minio-client
  • openrct2-objects
  • openrct2

Updated the following backported packages for bookworm

  • golang-github-minio-madmin-go
  • golang-github-minio-minio-go-v7
  • golang-github-zitadel-oidc
  • incus
  • openrct2
  • openrct2-objects

BTS activities

  • Reported a regression in the amdgpu driver (#1092624, and upstream bug report)
  • Reported a breakage of yubioath-desktop (#1093774)
  • Filed two FTBFS bugs (#1093640, #1093641)
  • Filed one RM bug (#1093627)

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