Debian LTS and ELTS - February 2024

[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/lts/debian/#sponsors


LTS

- cacti
  - Finish triaging and backporting CVEs growing backlog
  - Update the security tracker with numerous incorrect or missing
    patches, and CVE limitations
  - Report duplicate CVEs to MITRE
  - Test CVE fixes
  - Find and report incomplete fix to Cacti upstream, and contribute
    patch; waiting for their answer (GHSA-grj5-8fcj-34gh)
  - Contribute package update for (non-LTS) bullseye/oldstable and
    bookworm/stable, waiting for review from Debian maintainer and
    security team


ELTS

- python3.4
  - Review and clean-up preliminary work by other contributor
  - Debug and rework Salsa CI setup
  - Multiple fixes to test suite


Documentation and tooling

- Identify contributor-level issue with freexian administrative
  tooling and help test

- Documentation
  - (internal) improves notes on reproducing ELTS autopkgtest setup
    locally
  - TestSuites: improves python3 notes
    https://lts-team.pages.debian.net/wiki/TestSuites/python3.html

- Jitsi meeting

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Sylvain Beucler
Debian LTS Team