Debian LTS and ELTS - April 2024

[Sylvain Beucler <beuc@beuc.net>]

Here is my public monthly report.

Thanks to our sponsors for making this possible, and to Freexian for
handling the offering.
https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/#sponsors


LTS

- Front Desk (week 18, first half)
  - Triage or precise triage for 10+ CVEs
  - Tidy work queue (dla-needed.txt)


ELTS

- Front Desk (week 18, first half)
  - Associate CVEs from newer, branched Debian packages with different
    names to older ELTS packages (emacs*, firebird*, golang*,
    openssl*, netty*, php*, python*, ruby*, tomcat*); reference
    libcoap* for upcoming buster-elts
  - Mark 4 supported packages for update


Documentation and tooling

- LTS Documentation
  - Development: revamp CVE triaging sections, add section on related packages
    https://lts-team.pages.debian.net/wiki/Development.html#triage-security-issues
    Details of this extensive change can be found at
    https://salsa.debian.org/lts-team/lts-team.pages.debian.net/-/merge_requests/15
  - TestSuites: curl: precise scope
    https://lts-team.pages.debian.net/wiki/TestSuites/curl.html
  - Development: move generic GPG lists troubleshooting to the wiki
    https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists#PGP-based_approvals

- Help with handling package / understand triage:
  https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2024/04/msg00014.html
  https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2024/04/msg00015.html

- Jitsi meeting
  Also took notes:
  https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2024/04/msg00113.html

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Sylvain Beucler
Debian LTS Team