Debian LTS and ELTS - January 2025

[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

- Investigate and triage open issues for 3 packages: spip, libtheora,
  ruby-sinatra, and drop them from the work queue (nothing to do
  eventually)

- Prepare peer review & testing for the upcoming Cacti DLA
  https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2025/01/msg00050.html


ELTS

- activemq (jessie)
  - Follow-up on Arturo's work
  - Test the prepared update
  - ELA-1308-1
    https://www.freexian.com/lts/extended/updates/ela-1308-1-activemq/

- Investigate and triage open issues for 3 packages: libtheora,
  ruby-sinatra, and drop them from the work queue (nothing to do
  eventually)


Documentation and tooling

- LTS Documentation: TestSuites: activemq: additional tests
  https://lts-team.pages.debian.net/wiki/TestSuites/activemq.html

- ELTS Documentation (private): clarifications after recent upload
  issues

- ELTS tooling
  - script to drop obsolete TEMP-* entries (no CVE IDs yet), and
    identify CVE typos, from the ELTS tracker
    https://salsa.debian.org/freexian-team/extended-lts/security-tracker/-/blob/master/bin/elts-drop-obsolete
  - package-operations: fix --find-work help text

- qemu: help Santiago with QEMU CVE reproducers

- Participate in LTS processes discussions
  - About the possibility of a Front Desk wiki
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2025/01/msg00044.html
  - Automated checking for uploads and git tags after DSA/DLA
    https://salsa.debian.org/lts-team/lts-extra-tasks/-/issues/74#note_576728
  - Minimize the number of projects under lts-team/packages
    https://salsa.debian.org/lts-team/lts-extra-tasks/-/issues/76#note_578182

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Sylvain Beucler
Debian LTS Team