Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in February 2026
- Debian packages:
- firmware-free:
- firmware-nonfree:
- Bugs:
- closed #481234: firmware-nonfree: Include firmware for p54 driver
- closed #484177: firmware-nonfree: keyspan
- closed #534379: [firmware-nonfree] Please consider including dvb-usb-af9015.fw
- closed #548745: firmware-linux: Fix licence and include edgeport firmware
- closed #588142: Add r8192u_usb (aka rtl8192u) firmware
- closed #597897: RFP: alsa-firmware – firmware binaries used by each alsa-firmware-loader program
- closed #999485: Please add brcmfmac43456-sdio.* files as it’s not just used in RPi devices
- opened and closed #1126794: Undistributable file under qcom/qdu100
- closed #1126846: Qualcomm AudioReach topology files are covered by separate licence
- replied to #1126896: firmware-nvidia-graphics: Cannot upgrade from bookworm-backports to trixie-backports
- Merge requests:
- closed !128: Draft: Add Provides: based ABI versioning mechanism
- merged !134: Update to 20251125
- reviewed and merged !135: Drop DSP firmware, migrated to hexagon-dsp-binaries source
- reviewed and merged !136: debian/copyright: correct licence issues
- opened and closed !137: d/copyright, qcom-soc: Exclude undistributable QDU100 firmware
- opened and merged !138: Update to 20260110
- opened and merged !139: Update to 20260221
- Uploads:
- uploaded version 20251111-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
- uploaded version 20251125-1 to unstable
- uploaded version 20260110-1 to unstable
- Bugs:
- hexagon-dsp-binaries:
- initramfs-tools:
- Bugs:
- Merge requests:
- iptables:
- ktls-utils:
- Merge requests:
- libvirt:
- linux:
- Bugs:
- replied to #1121192: kworker: Events_unbound, kworker processes, continually using CPU.
- replied to #1126710: linux-image-6.18.5+deb14-amd64: unable to mount existing XFS V4 filesystem because kernel CONFIG_XFS_SUPPORT_V4 is not set
- replied to #1128397: linux-image-6.18.10+deb14-amd64: open(/proc/$pid/maps) is empty after $pid exec()s, unless you read a partial line from the fd before, in which case it has the rest of the line only
- replied to and closed #1128567: linux-image-6.18.5+deb13-amd64: amdgpu.dc=0 causes Xorg 1:7.7+24 error “no screens found”
- closed #1129029: Bug on VirtualBox and KVM conflict kernel 6.12 (Debian 12)
- Merge requests:
- Uploads:
- (LTS) uploaded version 5.10.249-1 to bullseye-security
- uploaded version 6.12.63-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
- uploaded version 6.12.69-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
- uploaded version 6.12.73-1~bpo12+1 to bookworm-backports
- uploaded version 6.18.12-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
- uploaded version 6.18.5-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
- uploaded version 6.18.9-1~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports
- (LTS) updated the bullseye-security branch to 5.10.251, but did not upload it
- Bugs:
- (LTS) linux-6.1:
- Uploads:
- uploaded version 6.1.162-1~deb11u1 to bullseye-security
- Uploads:
- linux-base:
- nfs-utils:
- Merge requests:
- reviewed and merged !36: Drop installation of blkmapd and nfs-blkmap.service systemd service
- Merge requests:
- wireless-regdb:
- Debian non-package bugs:
- Mailing lists:
- debian-kernel:
- posted Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2026-02-04
- posted Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2026-02-25
- (LTS) replied to Discrepancies between Commits list in changelog of debian and upstream linux git repo.
- (LTS) replied to [Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Processed: retitle 1124549 to libvirt passes invalid flags for network interface deletion …, tagging 1124549
- replied to linux 7.0
- debian-lts-announce:
- klibc:
- replied to [PATCH 1/2] [klibc] explicitly close arm64 syscall stub generator output
- replied to [PATCH] [klibc] fix arm stub alignment
- replied to [PATCH] [klibc] remove unneeded syscalls.mk dependencies
- linux-hwmon:
- linux-wireless:
- platform-driver-x86:
- stable:
- (LTS) replied to Please apply commit 9990ddf47d41 (“net: tunnel: make skb_vlan_inet_prepare() return drop reasons”) down to 6.1.y at least
- (LTS) reviewed and replied to
various
patches
for
5.10
…
…
… - (LTS) posted [PATCH 5.10,5.15] ip6_tunnel: Fix usage of skb_vlan_inet_prepare()
- replied to [PATCH 6.12 519/567] gpiolib: acpi: Move quirks to a separate file
- debian-kernel:
