Free software log (December 2017)

I finally have enough activity to report that I need to think about how to format these updates. It's a good problem to have.

In upstream work, I updated rra-c-util with an evaluation of the new warning flags for GCC 7, enabling as many warnings as possible. I also finished the work to build with Clang with warnings enabled, which required investigating a lot of conversions between variables of different sizes. Part of that investigation surfaced that the SA_LEN macro was no longer useful, so I removed that from INN and rra-c-util.

I'm still of two minds about whether adding the casts and code to correctly build with -Wsign-conversion is worth it. I started a patch to rra-c-util (currently sitting in a branch), but wasn't very happy about the resulting code quality. I think doing this properly requires some thoughtfulness about macros and a systematic approach.

Releases:

• C TAP Harness 4.2 (includes new is_blob contribution)
• DocKnot 1.02
• pam-krb5 4.8
• podlators 4.10
• rra-c-util 7.0
• Tasker 0.4 (final release)

In Debian Policy, I wrote and merged a patch for one bug, merged patches for two other bugs, and merged a bunch of wording improvements to the copyright-format document. I also updated the license-count script to work with current Debian infrastructure and ran it again for various ongoing discussions of what licenses to include in common-licenses.

Debian package uploads:

• lbcd (now orphaned)
• libafs-pag-perl (refreshed and donated to pkg-perl)
• libheimdal-kadm5-perl (refreshed and donated to pkg-perl)
• libnet-ldapapi-perl
• puppet-modules-puppetlabs-apt
• puppet-modules-puppetlabs-firewall (team upload)
• puppet-modules-puppetlabs-ntp (team upload)
• puppet-modules-puppetlabs-stdlib (two uploads)
• rssh (packaging refresh, now using dgit)
• webauth (now orphaned)
• xfonts-jmk

There are a few more orphaning uploads and uploads giving Perl packages to the Perl packaging team coming, and then I should be down to the set of packages I'm in a position to actively maintain and I can figure out where I want to focus going forward.