Debian LTS and ELTS - January 2023

[Sylvain Beucler <beuc@beuc.net>]

Here is my public monthly report.

Thanks to our sponsors for making this possible, and to Freexian for
handling the offering.
https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html#sponsors


LTS

- Front Desk
  - Mark 10 packages for update
    - 8 following bullseye 11.6 point release updates
  - Triage or precise triage for 10+ CVEs
  - Standardize/clarify buster-lts triage for golang* packages
    (following September and December work)

- tiff
   - Finish backporting patches to buster (started in December)
   - DLA 3278-1
     https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00018.html

- git
  - DLA 3282-1
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00022.html

- runc
  - Starting checking security issues, packaging strategy and testing
    (to be continued in February)


ELTS

- Front Desk
  - Mark 7 supported packages for update
    - 4 while reviewing history of newly supported packages in 2023-H1
  - Associate CVEs from newer, branched 'golang*', 'php7*' and 'ruby*'
    Debian packages to older ELTS packages
  - Triage or precise triage for ~10 CVEs


Documentation and tooling

- LTS Documentation
  - freexian-lts.gitlab.io (internal/elts): newly-supported-packages:
    make commands a little easier to use / copy-paste

- Team exchanges
  - NVidia drivers status
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2023/01/msg00005.html
  - Internal discussion on filtering methodology for low-priority
    updates
  - Internal discussion on helping security team

- Monthly meeting (via IRC)
  http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-lts/2023/debian-lts.2023-01-26-14.00.html

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Sylvain Beucler
Debian LTS Team