My Debian Activities in July 2025

Debian LTS This was my hundred-thirty-third month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [DLA 4255-1] audiofile security update of two CVEs related to an integer overflow and a memory leak.[DLA 4256-1] libetpan security update to fix one CVE related to prevent a null pointer derefer ...

My Debian Activities in June 2025

Debian LTS This was my hundred-thirty-second month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [DLA 4221-1] libblockdev security update of one embargoed CVE related to obtaining full root privileges.[hardening udisks2] uploaded new version of udisks2 with a hardening patch related to DLA ...

My Debian Activities in May 2025

Debian LTS This was my hundred-thirty-first month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [DLA 4168-1] openafs security update of three CVEs related to theft of credentials, crashes or buffer overflows.[DLA 4196-1] kmail-account-wizard security update to fix one CVE related to a man- ...

My Debian Activities in April 2025

Debian LTS This was my hundred-thirtieth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian. During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [DLA 4145-1] expat security update of one CVE related to a crash within XML_ResumeParser() because XML_StopParser() can stop/suspend an unstarted parser.[DLA 4146-1] libxml2 security update to fix ...

My Debian Activities in October 2024

FTP master This month I accepted 398 and rejected 22 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 441. In case your RM bug is not closed within a month, you can assume that either the conversion of the subject of the bug email to the corresponding dak command did not work or you still need to take care of reverse dependencies. The dak command related to your removal bu ...

My Debian Activities in November 2022

FTP master This month I accepted 292 and rejected 43 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 295. Debian LTS This was my hundred-first month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.  This month my all in all workload has been 14h. During that time I uploaded: [DLA 3200-1] graphicsmagick security update for one ...

My Debian Activities in October 2022

FTP master This month I accepted 484 and rejected 55 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 492. Debian LTS This was my hundredth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.  Woohoo, There is a party. (yes I am old). Unfortunately there are already 101 completed month listed in the debian-lts-announce archive, s ...

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Automatic login with startx and systemd

Instead of using a display manager to autologin into an Xorg session on boot, we can use startx and systemd.