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In April I spent 0.5 hours on Debian LTS, and 1 on ELTS. I prepared distro-info-data updates for all the supported releases. They included adding Ubuntu 26.10 ("Stonking Stingray") and updating the Debian 12 ("Bookworm") EoL.
In October I spent 0.5 hours on Debian LTS, and 1 on ELTS. I prepared distro-info-data updates for all the supported releases. They included adding Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ("Resolute Raccoon") and updating the Debian 12 ("Bookworm") EoL. After completing this update, we discovered that the bookworm EoL had already changed again, but this change will go out in the next update.
This week, some of the DebConf Video Team met in Herefordshire (UK) for a sprint . We didn't have a sprint in 2024, and it was sorely needed, now. At the sprint we made good progress towards using Voctomix 2 more reliably, and made plans for our future hardware needs. Attendees Chris Boot (host) Stefano Rivera Kyle Robbertze Carl Karsten Nicolas Dandrimont Voctomix 2 DebConf 25 was the first event…
In August I spent 0.5 hours on Debian LTS, and 1 on ELTS. I prepared distro-info-data updates for all the supported releases. They included adding Debian 13's ("Trixie") release and estimated EoL dates, as well as a new eol-legacy column for Ubuntu.
In April I spent 0.5 hours on Debian LTS, and 1 on ELTS. I prepared distro-info-data updates for all the supported releases. They included adding Debian 15 "Duke" and Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka".
In November I spent 0 hours on Debian LTS, and 2.5 on ELTS. I reviewed updates by Bastien Roucariès for Python 2.7, and 3.4. I helped to get the packages to build under Salsa CI.
In November I spent 0 hours on Debian LTS, and 5.5 on ELTS. I reviewed updates by Bastien Roucariès for Python 2.7, 3.5, and 3.7. This mostly involved backporting the same set of patches to older releases, where things worked a little differently.
In October I spent 1 hours on Debian LTS, and 2.5 on ELTS. Updating the distro-info-data database. A straightforward data update, but I ran into a bug in sbuild + autopkgtest that made my sbuild unable to build on old ELTS releases. Once understood, it was trivial to fix . I also re-investigated the current state of the PEP-440 issue that affects Python virtulenvs on older releases, that have…
In June I spent 0.5 hours on Debian LTS, and none on ELTS. Updating the distro-info-data database, which turned out to be no update at all. In preparing to announce the end-of-life of Debian 10 LTS, the date shifted a couple of times before ending back where it started.
In April I spent 1.5 hours on Debian LTS and 1.5 hours on Debian ELTS: Updating the distro-info-data database. This update included the new columns that had previously been stripped out of distro-info-data updates to older releases. That required groundwork in October 2023 , updating the older distro-info versions to handle unexpected columns.