Debian LTS and ELTS - May 2024
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
- Front Desk (week 18, second half)
- Mark 4 packages for update
- Triage or precise triage for 30+ CVEs
- Coordinate LTS/ELTS discrepancy for non-free firmware packages
- cacti
- Incomplete fix reported 2024-03 is published as CVE-2024-29894
- Provide follow-up fixes to Cacti upstream (and reference them in
the security tracker)
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/pull/5751
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/pull/5752
ELTS
- Front Desk (week 18, second half)
- Associate CVEs from newer, branched Debian packages with different
names to older ELTS packages (freerdp*)
- Mark 4 supported packages for update
- Triage or precise triage for a few CVEs
- Provide guidance with handling 'putty'
Documentation and tooling
- LTS Documentation
- Development:
Clarifications, add links
Move ELTS-specific Front-Desk task to ELTS doc
https://lts-team.pages.debian.net/wiki/Development.html
- TestSuites: glib2.0: reference maintainer tests suggestion
https://lts-team.pages.debian.net/wiki/TestSuites.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2024/05/msg00010.html
- ELTS Documentation (internal)
- Improve navigation
- Multiple link updates, additional internal links, typos fixes
- Tooling
- Drop unused 'find-rdeps' script
- ELTS security tracker: optimize lengthy post-commit checks
- Report issue with pyxian source access
- IRC meeting
https://meetbot.debian.net/debian-lts/2024/debian-lts.2024-05-23-14.00.html
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Sylvain Beucler
Debian LTS Team
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