Better living through software

There’s not a whole lot to report here.

Debian packages: apt: Bugs: replied to #1078608: apt update silently leaves old index data firmware-nonfree: Merge requests: opened and merged !

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 !

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…

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 p…

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 #11253…

Debian packages: firmware-nonfree: Merge requests: reviewed !

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: fi…