LTS & ELTS Report for October 2024

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…