Ben Hutchings's diary of life and technology
Debian packages: apt: Bugs: replied to #1078608: apt update silently leaves old index data firmware-nonfree: Merge requests: opened and merged !151: Update to 20260622 Uploads: uploaded version 20260622-1 to unstable uploaded version 20260622-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports hexagon-dsp-binaries: Bugs: opened #1141904: Missing new DSP binaries for shikra initramfs-tools: Bugs: replied to #1142780:…
This month’s work was dominated by the transition of Debian 12 “bookworm” to support by the LTS team, and by review of some large updates to Linux stable branches.
This was a particularly busy month for me in terms of Debian contributions.
Debian packages: firmware-nonfree: Bugs: replied to #1132448: firmware-mediatek: Wifi perf degraded a lot after upgrade firmware-mediatek from 20250410-2 to 20260221-1~bpo13+1 and 20260309-1 Merge requests: merged !142: Replace copy-firmware.sh; install files and generate metainfo.xml at build time opened and merged !143: Clean up configuration format and directory opened and merged !144: Remove…
Debian packages: firmware-nonfree: Bugs: closed #1064620: firmware-nonfree: suggestions for the packaging, gencontrol.py and debian/rules closed #1126797: firmware-intel-graphics: Please ship irci_irci_ecr-master_20161208_0213_20170112_1500.bin as ipu3-fw.bin closed #1131751: ABI break in amdxdna npu firmware Merge requests: opened and merged !140: Update to 20260309 opened and merged !141: Clean…
Debian packages: firmware-free: Bugs: closed #890601: firmware-linux-free uses prebuilt blobs instead of building from source Uploads: uploaded version 20241210-3 to unstable firmware-nonfree: Bugs: closed #481234: firmware-nonfree: Include firmware for p54 driver closed #484177: firmware-nonfree: keyspan closed #534379: [firmware-nonfree] Please consider including dvb-usb-af9015.fw closed…
Debian packages: dracut: Bugs: replied to and reassigned #1124400: update-initramfs no longer includes /lib/modules/<kver>/updates directory flash-kernel: Bugs: closed #1102690: A higher version (…) is still installed, no reflashing required closed #1125327: since linux 6.18, flash-kernel fails to find dtbs in /usr/lib/linux-image-* Uploads: uploaded version 3.110 to unstable uploaded version…
Debian packages: firmware-nonfree: Merge requests: reviewed !135: Upgrade to 20251125 ktls-utils: Bugs: replied to and closed #1121921: ktls-utils: Deprecated tlshd config path breaks autopkgtests Uploads: uploaded version 1.3.0-2 to unstable linux: Merge requests: reviewed !1723: Draft: Avoid usage of dh_movetousr and also update udebs to use /usr/lib/modules Uploads: (LTS) uploaded version…
Debian packages: debian-cd: Bugs: replied to #1120055: Please include ifenslave, vlan and possibly bridge-utils to netinst CD firmware-nonfree: Bugs: closed #1106074: include potentially non-redistributable C\&M firmware replied to and closed #1112208: firmware-nvidia-graphics: Missing gsp symlink for nvidia ad107 closed #1116997: firmware-amd-graphics: Please update to current VCN firmware on…
Debian packages: firmware-nonfree: Bugs: closed #1118156: Missing Build-Depends on python3-dacite, python3-jinja2 Merge requests: closed !129: Retire vorlon from uploaders merged !130: Update firmware-nonfree to 20250917 reviewed and merged !131: Update to 20251011 merged !132: misc-nonfree: Include all Arm Mali firmware opened and merged !133: Fix another broken symlink and avoid creating more of…