Colors of Noise

Debian LTS

November marked the 21st month I contributed to Debian LTS under the Freexian umbrella. I had 8 hours allocated which I used for:

• the first half of a LTS front desk week
• updating icedove 45.6.0 resulting in DLA-782-1 fixing 8 CVEs
• releasing DLA-783-1 for XEN, the actual update was provided by credativ
• testing the bind9 update prepared by Thorsten Alteholz
• fixing 8 CVEs in imagemagick resulting in DLA-807-1.
• work on recent qemu CVEs

Other Debian stuff

• Usual bunch of libvirt and related uploads
• Uploaded git-buildpackage 0.8.10 to 0.8.12.1 to experimental and unstable fixing (among other things) a long standing bug when using multiple tarballs with filters and pristine-tar as well as making generated orig tarballs reproducible so one gets identical tarballs even without pristine-tar.
• Ran a gbp import-dsc of unstable and filed bugs for cases where pristine-tar would not import the package. Started to look into git-apply errors.

Some other Free Software activites

• libplanfahr: switched the example to python3 and made it parse arguments without date as "today":

  $ ./run python examples/trip-query.py --when=21:00 Essen Gelsenkirchen
  Loaded provider de_db
  Start: Essen Hbf
  End: Gelsenkirchen Hbf
  Trip #1
         Start:     Essen Hbf
         Departure: 2017-02-02 21:18
         Delay:     0
         End:       Gelsenkirchen Hbf
         Arrival:   2017-02-02 21:26
         Delay:     0
         Switches:  0
  
  
  Trip #2
         Start:     Essen Hbf
         Departure: 2017-02-02 21:22
         Delay:     0
         End:       Gelsenkirchen Hbf
         Arrival:   2017-02-02 21:33
         Delay:     0
         Switches:  0
  
  
  Trip #3
         Start:     Essen Hbf
         Departure: 2017-02-02 21:44
         Delay:     0
         End:       Gelsenkirchen Hbf
         Arrival:   2017-02-02 21:52
         Delay:     0
         Switches:  0
  

• Proposed a workaround to rbvmomi to massively speedup cloning under certain conditions when using CachedOVFDeployer

• Proposed a fix to unbreak ansible's zypper module on first installations
• Made ausroller use git-buildpackage from pypi on non Debian based distros
• Made further progess on the Merkur board clones