{"id":10232,"date":"2017-10-10T00:18:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T22:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gambaru.de\/blog\/?p=10232"},"modified":"2017-10-10T00:18:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T22:18:12","slug":"my-free-software-activities-in-september-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gambaru.de\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/my-free-software-activities-in-september-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"My Free Software Activities in September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you're interested in\u00a0 Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you.<\/p>\n<h2>Debian Games<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>I sponsored a new release of <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/hexalate\">hexalate<\/a> for Unit193 and <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/icebreaker\">icebreaker<\/a> for Andreas Gnau. The latter is a reintroduction.<\/li>\n<li>New upstream releases this month: <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/freeorion\">freeorion<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/hyperrogue\">hyperrogue<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I backported <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/freeciv\">freeciv<\/a> and freeorion to Stretch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Debian Java<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>New upstream releases and one update: <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/sweethome3d\">sweethome3d<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/sweethome3d-furniture\">sweethome3d-furniture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/sweethome3d-furniture-editor\">sweethome3d-furniture-editor<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/sweethome3d-textures-editor\">sweethome3d-textures-editor<\/a> (update), <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/libsambox-java\">libsambox-java<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/libsejda-java\">libsejda-java<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/pdfsam\">pdfsam<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/easymock\">easymock<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/jboss-modules\">jboss-modules<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/jboss-xnio\">jboss-xnio<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/undertow\">undertow<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I fixed one RC bug in <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/libsejda-io-java\">libsejda-io-java<\/a> (#874494) and investigated another one (#869266) in <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/commons-httpclient\">commons-httpclient<\/a> which could be closed.<\/li>\n<li>The new build-dependencies of jboss-xnio, <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/wildfly-client-config\">wildfly-client-config<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/wildfly-common\">wildfly-common<\/a>, were accepted into the archive this month.<\/li>\n<li>I spent some quality time on fixing\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=874579\">#874579<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/libhibernate-validator-java\">libhibernate-validator-java<\/a>. This was the last blocking bug for <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/pdfsam\">pdfsam<\/a> which I could finally upload to unstable. It's a really great JavaFX application. Check it out!<\/li>\n<li>I sponsored another update of <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/libimglib2-java\">libimglib2-java<\/a> for Ghislain Vaillant and <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/simplyhtml\">simplyhtml<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/freeplane\">freeplane<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/knopflerfish-osgi\">knopflerfish-osgi<\/a> for Felix Natter.<\/li>\n<li>I also fixed RC bug <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=871348\">#871348<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/robocode\">robocode<\/a>, a Java programming game and <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=871347\">#871347<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/tycho\">tycho<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Debian LTS<\/h2>\n<p>This was my nineteenth month as a paid contributor and I have been paid to work 15,75 hours on <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.debian.org\/LTS\/\">Debian LTS<\/a>, a project started by <a href=\"https:\/\/raphaelhertzog.com\">Rapha\u00ebl Hertzog<\/a>. In that time I did the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From 18. September to 24. September I was in charge of our LTS frontdesk. I triaged bugs in poppler, binutils, kannel, wordpress, libsndfile, libexif, nautilus, libstruts1.2-java, nvidia-graphics-drivers, p3scan, otrs2 and glassfish.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lists.debian.org\/debian-lts-announce\/2017\/09\/msg00025.html\">DLA-1108-1<\/a>. Issued a security update for tomcat7 fixing 1 CVE.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lists.debian.org\/debian-lts-announce\/2017\/09\/msg00033.html\">DLA-1116-1<\/a>. Issued a security update for poppler fixing 3 CVE.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lists.debian.org\/debian-lts-announce\/2017\/09\/msg00036.html\">DLA-1119-1<\/a>. Issued a security update for otrs2 fixing 4 CVE.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lists.debian.org\/debian-lts-announce\/2017\/10\/msg00002.html\">DLA-1122-1<\/a>. Issued a security update for asterisk fixing 1 CVE. I also investigated <a href=\"https:\/\/security-tracker.debian.org\/tracker\/CVE-2017-14099\">CVE-2017-14099<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/security-tracker.debian.org\/tracker\/CVE-2017-14603\">CVE-2017-14603.<\/a> I decided against a backport because the fix was too intrusive and the vulnerable option is disabled by default in Wheezy's version which makes it a minor issue for most users.<\/li>\n<li>I submitted a patch for Debian's reportbug tool. (<a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.debian.org\/cgi-bin\/bugreport.cgi?bug=878088\">#878088<\/a>) During our LTS BoF at DebConf 17 we came to the conclusion that we should implement a feature in reportbug that checks whether the bug reporter wants to report a regression for a recent security update. Usually the LTS and security teams\u00a0 receive word from the maintainer or users who report issues directly to our mailing lists or IRC channels. However in some cases we were not informed about possible regressions and the new feature in reportbug shall ensure that we can respond faster to such reports.<\/li>\n<li>I started to investigate the open security issues in wordpress and will complete the work in October.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Misc<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>I packaged a new version of <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/xarchiver\">xarchiver.<\/a> Thanks to the work of Ingo Br\u00fcckl xarchiver can handle almost all archive formats in Debian now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>QA upload<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>I did a QA upload of <a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.debian.org\/pkg\/xball\">xball<\/a>, an ancient game from the 90ies that simulates bouncing balls.\u00a0 It should be ready for another decade at least.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks for reading and see you next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to gambaru.de. Here is my monthly report that covers what I have been doing for Debian. If you&#8217;re interested in\u00a0 Java, Games and LTS topics, this might be interesting for you. Debian Games I sponsored a new release of hexalate for Unit193 and icebreaker for Andreas Gnau. The latter is a reintroduction. New upstream &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gambaru.de\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/my-free-software-activities-in-september-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eMy Free Software Activities in September 2017\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[53,68,155],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gambaru.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gambaru.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gambaru.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gambaru.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gambaru.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gambaru.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gambaru.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gambaru.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gambaru.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}