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Colin Watson: Free software activity in January 2026

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About 80% of my Debian contributions this month were
sponsored by
Freexian, as well as one direct donation via GitHub
Sponsors (thanks!). If you
appreciate this sort of work and are at a company that uses Debian, have a
look to see whether you can pay for any of
Freexian‘s services; as well as the direct
benefits, that revenue stream helps to keep Debian development sustainable
for me and several other lovely
people.

You can also support my work directly via
Liberapay or GitHub
Sponsors.

Python packaging

New upstream versions:

django-macaddress (fixing use of pkg_resources)
fsspec (fixing a build failure with Python 3.14)
ipyparallel
pycodestyle
pyflakes (fixing a build failure with Python 3.14)
pyroma
pytest-golden (fixing a regression that broke markdown-callouts, which I reported upstream)
pytest-runner
python-auditwheel
python-b2sdk (fixing a build failure with Python 3.14)
python-certifi
python-django-imagekit (fixing a build failure with Python 3.14)
python-flake8 (fixing a build failure with a new pyflakes version)
python-ibm-cloud-sdk-core (contributed supporting fix upstream)
python-openapi-core (fixing a build failure with Python 3.14)
python-pdoc (fixing a build failure with Python 3.14)
python-pyfunceble
python-pytest-run-parallel
python-pytokens
python-weblogo (fixing use of pkg_resources)
python-wheezy.template
smart-open
sphinx-togglebutton
sqlobject
supervisor (fixing use of pkg_resources)
vcr.py (fixing a build failure with Python 3.14)
zope.interface (including a fix for a Python 3.14 failure in python-klein, which I contributed upstream)
zope.testrunner (fixing a build failure with Python 3.14)

Fixes for Python 3.14:

pdfposter (contributed upstream)
pexpect
poetry
pyhamcrest
pylint-gitlab
python-astor
python-easydev (contributed upstream)
python-forbiddenfruit
python-ibm-cloud-sdk-core
python-iniparse
python-libusb1
python-marshmallow-dataclass (contributed upstream)
python-marshmallow (NMU)
python-opentracing
python-opt-einsum-fx
python-spdx-tools
python-stopit
rich (NMU, also requiring an NMU of textual)
scikit-build-core
seqdiag
uncertainties
yarsync (contributed upstream, along with a supporting fix)

Fixes for pytest 9:

Porting away from the deprecated pkg_resources:

beaker
coreapi
cppy (no-change rebuild to remove a spurious dependency)
depthcharge-tools (contributed upstream)
errbot
gajim-antispam (removed unused dependency)
gajim-lengthnotifier (removed unused dependency)
gajim-openpgp (removed unused dependency)
gajim-pgp (removed unused dependency)
gajim-triggers (removed unused dependency)
grapefruit
impacket (contributed upstream)
jupyter-packaging (no-change rebuild to remove a spurious dependency)
khal
pipenv (no-change rebuild to remove a spurious dependency)
pyroma
pytest-runner
pytest-tornado
python-airr
python-aptly
python-docxcompose
python-hatch-mypyc (no-change rebuild to remove a spurious dependency)
python-pyfunceble
python-stopit
python-ttfautohint-py (removed unused dependency)
setuptools-scm (no-change rebuild to remove a spurious dependency)
slimit (removed unused dependency)
sphinx-togglebutton
topplot (contributed upstream)
valinor

Other build/test failures:

I investigated several more build failures and suggested removing the packages in question:

Other bugs:

Other bits and pieces

Alejandro Colomar reported that man(1) ignored the MANWIDTH environment variable in some circumstances. I investigated this and fixed it upstream.

I contributed an ubuntu-dev-tools patch to stop recommending sudo.

I added forky support to the images used in Salsa CI pipelines.

I began working on getting a release candidate of groff 1.24.0 into experimental, though haven’t finished that yet.

I worked on some lower-priority security updates for OpenSSH.