Debian LTS report for July 2019
This month I was allocated 17 hours. I also had 2 hours left over from Juney, which makes a total of 19 hours. I spent all of them on the following tasks/ issues.
- DLA-1843-1: Fixed CVE-2019-10162 and CVE-2019-10163 in pdns.
- DLA-1852-1: Fixed CVE-2019-9948 in python3.4. Also found, debugged and fixed several further regressions in the former CVE-2019-9740 patches.
- Improved testing of LTS uploads: We had some internal discussion in the Debian LTS team on how to improve the overall quality of LTS security uploads by doing more (semi-)automated testing of the packages before uploading them to jessie-security. I tried to summarize the internal discussion, bringing it to the public debian-lts mailinglist. I also did a lot of testing and worked on Jessie support in Salsa-CI. Now that salsa-ci-team/images MR !74 and ci-team/debci MR !89 got merged, we only have to wait for a new debci release in order to enable autopkgtest Jessie support in Salsa-CI. Afterwards, we can use the Salsa-CI pipeline for (semi-)automatic testing of packages targeted at jessie-security.