September 30th 2024

Free software activities in September 2024

Here is my monthly update covering what I have been doing in the free software world during September 2024 (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.

This month, I:

Updated our website:


diffoscope

Elsewhere in our tooling, I made the following changes to diffoscope, including preparing and uploading version 278 to Debian:

For trydiffoscope, the command-line client for the web-based version of diffoscope, I:



Debian uploads

I also filed a removal bug for the (buggy and superseded) python-gflags package. (#1081383)


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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