May 31st 2019

Free software activities in May 2019

Here is my monthly update covering what I have been doing in the free software world during May 2019 (previous month):


Reproducible builds

Whilst anyone can inspect the source code of free software for malicious flaws almost all software is distributed pre-compiled to end users.

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.

The initiative is proud to be a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charity focused on ethical technology and user freedom.

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:

I also made the of following changes to diffoscope, our in-depth and content-aware diff utility that can locate and diagnose reproducibility issues:

Finally, I made a large number of following changes to my web-based ("no installation required") version of the diffoscope tool, try.diffoscope.org:


Debian

Debian LTS

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


Uploads

I also made the following non-maintainer uploads (NMUs) to fix release-critical bugs in Debian buster:


FTP Team

As a Debian FTP assistant I ACCEPTed 16 packages: cc-tool, gdal, golang-github-joyent-gosign, golang-github-mgutz-str, golang-github-mgutz-to, golang-github-ovh-go-ovh, golang-github-src-d-gcfg, golang-golang-x-xerrors, golang-gopkg-ldap.v3, libgit2, nodejs, opensbi, openzwave, rustc, u-boot & websocketd.




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