January 31st 2022

Free software activities in January 2022

Here is my monthly update covering what I have been doing in the free software world during January 2022 (previous month):


Reproducible Builds

The motivation behind the Reproducible Builds effort is to ensure no flaws have been introduced during compilation processes by promising identical results are always generated from a given source, thus allowing multiple third-parties to come to a consensus on whether a build was compromised.

The project is proud to be a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Conservancy acts as a corporate umbrella allowing projects to operate as non-profit initiatives without managing their own corporate structure. If you like the work of the Conservancy or the Reproducible Builds project, please consider becoming an official supporter.

This month, I:


diffoscope

Elsewhere in our tooling, I made the following changes to diffoscope, including preparing and uploading versions 199, 200, 201 and 202 to Debian:


Debian

Uploads


Debian LTS

This month I have worked 18 hours on Debian Long Term Support (LTS) and 12 hours on its sister Extended LTS project. This included:

You can find out more about the Debian LTS project via the following video:




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