January 31st 2024

Free software activities in January 2024

Here is my monthly update covering what I have been doing in the free software world during January 2024 (previous month):


Reproducible Builds

The motivation behind the Reproducible Builds effort is to ensure no flaws have been introduced during this compilation process 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.

This month, I:

Elsewhere in our tooling, I made a number of changes to diffoscope, our in-depth and content-aware diff utility that can locate and diagnose reproducibility issues, including preparing and uploading versions 254 and 255 to Debian.


Debian

Elsewhere in Debian, I requested the removal of my aptfs package. (#1061331)


Debian LTS

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

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




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