My Debian contributions this month were all
sponsored by
Freexian. I had a bit less time than usual, because Freexian collaborators
gathered in Marseille this month for our yearly sprint, doing some planning
for next year.
You can also support my work directly via
Liberapay or GitHub
Sponsors.
OpenSSH
I began preparing for the second stage of the GSS-API key exchange package
split (some
details have changed since that message). It seems that we’ll need to wait
until Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has been released, but that’s close enough that it’s
worth making sure we’re ready. This month I just did some packaging
cleanups that would otherwise have been annoying to copy, such as removing
support for direct upgrades from pre-bookworm. I’m considering some other
package rearrangements to make the split easier to manage, but haven’t made
any decisions here yet.
This also led me to start on a long-overdue bug triage pass, mainly
consisting of applying usertags to lots of our open bugs to sort them by
which program they apply to, and also closing a few that have been fixed,
since some bugs will eventually need to be reassigned to GSS-API packages
and it would be helpful to make them easier to find. At the time of
writing, about 30% of the bug list remains to be categorized this way.
Python packaging
I upgraded these packages to new upstream versions:

aioftp
basemap (fixing Cython 3.1
compatibility)
billiard
black
django-phonenumber-field
flask-security
flufl.i18n
langtable
mariadb-connector-python
peewee (fixing Cython 3.1
compatibility)
pydantic
pydantic-core
pydantic-settings
pylsqpack
pymongo
pymssql
pyodbc
python-auditwheel (contributed follow-up fix
upstream)
python-avro
python-bleach
python-btrees
python-certifi
python-charset-normalizer
python-colorlog
python-django-channels
python-django-constance
python-django-contact-form
python-django-hashids
python-djvulibre (fixing Cython 3.1
compatibility)
python-evalidate
python-legacy-cgi
python-openstep-plist (fixing Cython 3.1
compatibility)
python-pytest-run-parallel
python-pytokens
python-tblib
python-webargs
pyupgrade
sqlfluff
trove-classifiers
ttconv
wcwidth
zope.hookable
zope.i18nmessageid (removing run-time dependency on
setuptools)
zope.interface
zope.proxy
zope.security (removing run-time dependency on
setuptools)
zope.sqlalchemy

I packaged django-pgtransaction and
backported it to trixie, since we plan to use it in Debusine; and I adopted
python-certifi for the Python team.
I fixed or helped to fix several other build/test failures:

kivy
mypy
pytest-mypy-testing (contributed
upstream)
python-cytoolz
python-discord
python-ncls, fixing some failures in pyranges
pyxdg
traitlets
twine

I fixed a couple of other bugs:

pmix: B-D on python3-all-dev, but not built for all supported Python3 versions
python-certifi: Package not compatible with multiarch

Other bits and pieces

cdebconf: Move to /usr/lib/apt/apt-extracttemplates
devscripts: Restore dpkg-dev dependency
groff: Missing information about some utilities in the “contrib” directory

Code reviews

base-passwd: French translation (merged
and uploaded)
cdebconf: Consider using the standard dh sequence in
d/rules
(merged and uploaded)
cdebconf: Multiple select is not right aligned in
Hebrew (patch fails to build; asked
reporter for an update)
cdebconf: Allow building without
libglib2.0-dev (merged and uploaded)
pydantic-core (merged and uploaded)
pymongo (sponsored adoption by Aryan Karamtoth)
python-maturin: Add missing build
dependencies
(merged and uploaded)

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