Debian LTS and ELTS - September 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

- bullseye-lts open on September 1st!

- ruby2.7
  - Publish pending update prepared last month
  - DLA 3858-1
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00000.html

- OpenStack
  - Publish DLAs for Thomas Goirand's work
    DLA-3870-1 DLA-3871-1 DLA-3872-1 DLA-3873-1
    python-oslo.utils cinder glance nova
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00014.html
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00015.html
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00016.html
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00017.html

- MariaDB and Galera-4
  - Review work from Otto Kekäläinen (maintainer), help fix Salsa CI
    https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/galera-4/-/merge_requests/27
    https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.5/-/merge_requests/18
    https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.5/-/merge_requests/19
  - Publish DLAs
    DLA-3890-1 DLA-3891-1
    galera-4 mariadb-10.5
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00033.html
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00034.html

- Front-Desk
  - bullseye-lts now open, follow-up on August work
    - Clarify/update packages status
  - Week 40, first day
    - Mark 1 package for update, minor initial triage


ELTS

- Front-Desk (week 40, first day)
  - Mark 1 package for update, minor initial triage
  - Advice on CVE-2024-21096 for upcoming MariaDB ELTS work


Documentation and tooling

- LTS Documentation
  - TestSuites: add galera-4
    https://lts-team.pages.debian.net/wiki/TestSuites/galera.html
  - TestSuites: ruby: update gem2deb-test-runner information
    https://lts-team.pages.debian.net/wiki/TestSuites/ruby.html
  - PGP-based approvals: troubleshooting: add Content-Type issue
    https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists#PGP-based_approvals

- ELTS Documentation
  - How to release an update
    Merge Thorsten's clarifications, add further clarifications
    https://freexian.gitlab.io/services/deblts-team/documentation/elts/how-to-release-an-update.html

- autopkgtest (Continous Integration)
  Answer call for (ELTS) maintenance help, reference issue (internal)
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1078445#20

- Help fix ELTS tracker issue (due to duplicate mariadb-10.1 entries),
  and coordinate proper fix with Bastien and the Debian Security Team

- Exchange on hours dispatch and report delays, with lts-coordinator

-- 
Sylvain Beucler
Debian LTS Team