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#Freexian collaborators worked on preparations for DebConf 26, Python 3.14 as default transition, debvm, programmable container runtime and many more contributions to #Debian in June 2026.
Read all the details at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-06-2026/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social)
and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible. -
#Freexian collaborators worked on preparations for DebConf 26, Python 3.14 as default transition, debvm, programmable container runtime and many more contributions to #Debian in June 2026.
Read all the details at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-06-2026/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social)
and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible. -
#Debian LTS contributors released 56 DLAs fixing 877 CVEs in May, a larger number than usual. The Kernel team deserves a special mention for handling the disclosed vulnerabilities on #linux regarding Local Privilege Escalation with public proof-of-concept exploits. On the LTS side, the Front Desk team also triaged a significant flow of high severity CVEs and notable security updates were released for exim, gnutls28, krb5, lemonldap-ng, imagemagick, openjdk-11, openjdk-17, php7.4, python3.9 and more.
Several patches were prepared by Catalyst for #Samba 4.17 shipped with Debian 12, to fix vulnerabilities disclosed in May, thanks to Freexian's partnership with them to extend the support.
LTS team also contributed with updates to the latest Debian releases, #bookworm and #trixie.
Read the details in our full report at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-05/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).
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#Debian LTS contributors released 56 DLAs fixing 877 CVEs in May, a larger number than usual. The Kernel team deserves a special mention for handling the disclosed vulnerabilities on #linux regarding Local Privilege Escalation with public proof-of-concept exploits. On the LTS side, the Front Desk team also triaged a significant flow of high severity CVEs and notable security updates were released for exim, gnutls28, krb5, lemonldap-ng, imagemagick, openjdk-11, openjdk-17, php7.4, python3.9 and more.
Several patches were prepared by Catalyst for #Samba 4.17 shipped with Debian 12, to fix vulnerabilities disclosed in May, thanks to Freexian's partnership with them to extend the support.
LTS team also contributed with updates to the latest Debian releases, #bookworm and #trixie.
Read the details in our full report at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-05/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).
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37 Debian LTS advisories were released in February fixing 145 CVEs across various packages. These include security fixes for bind9, firefox-esr, imagemagick, libpng, mbedtls, openssh, packagekit, perl, postgresql-13, python3.9, systemd and many more.
Debian LTS contributors also prepared updates for more recent releases, Debian 12 (#bookworm), Debian 13 (#trixie) and Debian unstable.
Read the full report: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-04/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).
#debian #debianlts #freexian #imagemagick #libpng #openssh #packagekit #perl #systemd
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37 Debian LTS advisories were released in February fixing 145 CVEs across various packages. These include security fixes for bind9, firefox-esr, imagemagick, libpng, mbedtls, openssh, packagekit, perl, postgresql-13, python3.9, systemd and many more.
Debian LTS contributors also prepared updates for more recent releases, Debian 12 (#bookworm), Debian 13 (#trixie) and Debian unstable.
Read the full report: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-04/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).
#debian #debianlts #freexian #imagemagick #libpng #openssh #packagekit #perl #systemd
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37 Debian LTS advisories were released in February fixing 145 CVEs across various packages. These include security fixes for bind9, firefox-esr, imagemagick, libpng, mbedtls, openssh, packagekit, perl, postgresql-13, python3.9, systemd and many more.
Debian LTS contributors also prepared updates for more recent releases, Debian 12 (#bookworm), Debian 13 (#trixie) and Debian unstable.
Read the full report: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-04/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).
#debian #debianlts #freexian #imagemagick #libpng #openssh #packagekit #perl #systemd
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37 Debian LTS advisories were released in February fixing 145 CVEs across various packages. These include security fixes for bind9, firefox-esr, imagemagick, libpng, mbedtls, openssh, packagekit, perl, postgresql-13, python3.9, systemd and many more.
Debian LTS contributors also prepared updates for more recent releases, Debian 12 (#bookworm), Debian 13 (#trixie) and Debian unstable.
Read the full report: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-04/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).
#debian #debianlts #freexian #imagemagick #libpng #openssh #packagekit #perl #systemd
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37 Debian LTS advisories were released in February fixing 145 CVEs across various packages. These include security fixes for bind9, firefox-esr, imagemagick, libpng, mbedtls, openssh, packagekit, perl, postgresql-13, python3.9, systemd and many more.
Debian LTS contributors also prepared updates for more recent releases, Debian 12 (#bookworm), Debian 13 (#trixie) and Debian unstable.
Read the full report: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-04/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).
#debian #debianlts #freexian #imagemagick #libpng #openssh #packagekit #perl #systemd
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@freexian/116555001831661560
It was certainly an interesting cooperation between developers and sysadmin to get rid of the performance issues we faced! debusine.debian.net is becoming a non-trivial deployment where scaling issues can create real usability issues for end-users.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@freexian/116555001831661560
It was certainly an interesting cooperation between developers and sysadmin to get rid of the performance issues we faced! debusine.debian.net is becoming a non-trivial deployment where scaling issues can create real usability issues for end-users.
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In the latest in a series of articles about Debusine, our developers and sysadmins do a deep dive on how they managed to investigate and fix #Debusine workflow performance issues caused by complex interactions between a series of database concurrency and worker communication issues.
It involved delicate work to avoid system deadlocks, optimizing our workflow orchestration, scheduling fixes, worker refactoring and reducing the high database write volume.
Read the detailed breakdown at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-performance-issues/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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In the latest in a series of articles about Debusine, our developers and sysadmins do a deep dive on how they managed to investigate and fix #Debusine workflow performance issues caused by complex interactions between a series of database concurrency and worker communication issues.
It involved delicate work to avoid system deadlocks, optimizing our workflow orchestration, scheduling fixes, worker refactoring and reducing the high database write volume.
Read the detailed breakdown at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-performance-issues/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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24 Debian LTS Advisories fixing 250 CVEs for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors in March 2026. These include notable security updates for ansible, asterisk, gimp, gst-plugins-base1.0, gst-plugins-ugly1.0, imagemagick, libpng1.6, linux kernel, roundcube, strongswan and more.
In addtion to the LTS contributions, the team also prepared updates for recent releases - Debian 12(#bookworm), Debian 13(#trixie) and Debian unstable.
Read the full report at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-03/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits)
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Debusine projects in GSoC, incus backend landing in Debian CI and other updates, Salsa CI maintenance. #Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to #Debian in March 2026.
Read all the details at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-03-2026/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.
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Debusine projects in GSoC, incus backend landing in Debian CI and other updates, Salsa CI maintenance. #Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to #Debian in March 2026.
Read all the details at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-03-2026/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) for making this possible.
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Debusine's QA pipelines, which checks if #Debian packages are ready to upload, have recently gained a regression tracking mechanism. The regressions are found by checking for new failures in autopkgtests for packages in the archive that depends on the built package.
Read the new #Debusine blog post at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-regression-tracking/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social to know more about how it works and how you can use it in your own workflows.
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Debusine's QA pipelines, which checks if #Debian packages are ready to upload, have recently gained a regression tracking mechanism. The regressions are found by checking for new failures in autopkgtests for packages in the archive that depends on the built package.
Read the new #Debusine blog post at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-regression-tracking/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social to know more about how it works and how you can use it in your own workflows.
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#Debusine aims to be an integrated solution to build, distribute and maintain a Debian-based distribution. The lower-level pieces of its workflows are called tasks. A few examples are Sbuild, Lintian and Debdiff worker tasks.
Adding a new worker task can help you extend the capabilities of a Debusine instance.
Our new blogpost - https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-write-task/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social covers how to write one with a detailed example of adding a worker task that runs reprotest.
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#Debusine aims to be an integrated solution to build, distribute and maintain a Debian-based distribution. The lower-level pieces of its workflows are called tasks. A few examples are Sbuild, Lintian and Debdiff worker tasks.
Adding a new worker task can help you extend the capabilities of a Debusine instance.
Our new blogpost - https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-write-task/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social covers how to write one with a detailed example of adding a worker task that runs reprotest.
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We bid adieu to 2025 with a post detailing how files are stored by Debusine.
Read about how abstractions for low-level file storage and object collections in Debusine allows storage to be scalable beyond a single filesystem and be highly available. It also goes into detail about how data duplication is minimized using content-addressed storage.
Learn more at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-file-storage/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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We bid adieu to 2025 with a post detailing how files are stored by Debusine.
Read about how abstractions for low-level file storage and object collections in Debusine allows storage to be scalable beyond a single filesystem and be highly available. It also goes into detail about how data duplication is minimized using content-addressed storage.
Learn more at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-file-storage/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Ever thought about APT compatible add-on package repositories for Debian? Like PPAs but having proper compatibility with #Debian, QA tests and automatic built-in snapshot capabilities?
Glad to announce #Debusine repositories are now in public beta for Debian developers and maintainers.
Head to https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-repositories-beta/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social to learn more about it and how you can use it.
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Ever thought about APT compatible add-on package repositories for Debian? Like PPAs but having proper compatibility with #Debian, QA tests and automatic built-in snapshot capabilities?
Glad to announce #Debusine repositories are now in public beta for Debian developers and maintainers.
Head to https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-repositories-beta/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social to learn more about it and how you can use it.
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Our new post on #Debusine is about how we brought Dark Mode to the interface.
Learn about the neat little tricks we did to enable it for Debusine, and see how we built a site-wide feature out of simple minimalist touches.
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-dark-mode/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Our new post on #Debusine is about how we brought Dark Mode to the interface.
Learn about the neat little tricks we did to enable it for Debusine, and see how we built a site-wide feature out of simple minimalist touches.
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-dark-mode/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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We have a new blog post on Debusine to share with you!
It's our first design story for the UI, covering our unique approach towards JavaScript. It goes into detail on how to avoid having Debian infrastructure depend on it, how to integrate interactive widgets with Django, and how to keep complexities down to make Debusine code easier to write and to maintain.
Read more about us using JavaScript in Debusine without depending on JavaScript: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-and-javascript/
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We have a new blog post on Debusine to share with you!
It's our first design story for the UI, covering our unique approach towards JavaScript. It goes into detail on how to avoid having Debian infrastructure depend on it, how to integrate interactive widgets with Django, and how to keep complexities down to make Debusine code easier to write and to maintain.
Read more about us using JavaScript in Debusine without depending on JavaScript: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-and-javascript/
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Curious about how Debusine workflows actually work in practice?
Check out the recorded BoF session on Debusine Workflows from #DebConf25!
Learn about current developer workflows, challenges, and community discussions on what’s possible and what’s next for Debusine.
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Curious about how Debusine workflows actually work in practice?
Check out the recorded BoF session on Debusine Workflows from #DebConf25!
Learn about current developer workflows, challenges, and community discussions on what’s possible and what’s next for Debusine.
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@cjwatson from #Freexian gave a great talk at #DebConf25:
“Using Debusine to pre-test your unstable uploads”
https://debconf25.debconf.org/talks/29-using-debusine-to-pre-test-your-unstable-uploads/Learn what Debusine is, why we built it, and how you can use the features we have built to do QA work in Debian right now, including dput-ng integration, and scaling into clouds. Understand how Debusine runs builds & reverse-dependency tests before your package hits the archive — ideal for safer uploads and smoother transitions to Testing.
Watch the recording:
https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2025/DebConf25/debconf25-398-using-debusine-to-pre-test-your-unstable-uploads.av1.webm -
@cjwatson from #Freexian gave a great talk at #DebConf25:
“Using Debusine to pre-test your unstable uploads”
https://debconf25.debconf.org/talks/29-using-debusine-to-pre-test-your-unstable-uploads/Learn what Debusine is, why we built it, and how you can use the features we have built to do QA work in Debian right now, including dput-ng integration, and scaling into clouds. Understand how Debusine runs builds & reverse-dependency tests before your package hits the archive — ideal for safer uploads and smoother transitions to Testing.
Watch the recording:
https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2025/DebConf25/debconf25-398-using-debusine-to-pre-test-your-unstable-uploads.av1.webm -
UEFI Secure Boot Signing with Debusine
How do you handle Secure Boot signing for Debian-based systems?
We've just published a detailed write-up on how Freexian uses Debusine to manage UEFI Secure Boot signing for Debian 10 ELTS.
If any part of your work touches Secure Boot, package signing, or reproducible infrastructure for Debian distributions, it’s a relevant read.It covers:
* How signing workers are set up
* Secure Management of private keys
* Workflows to automate the tasks involved
* Future plans for extending the signing system and for better key protectionRead the post: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-secure-boot-signing/
If you're working on a Debian derivative and facing similar challenges, we’d love to hear from you: [email protected]
#Debian #UEFI #SecureBoot #Debusine #Freexian #LinuxSecurity
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UEFI Secure Boot Signing with Debusine
How do you handle Secure Boot signing for Debian-based systems?
We've just published a detailed write-up on how Freexian uses Debusine to manage UEFI Secure Boot signing for Debian 10 ELTS.
If any part of your work touches Secure Boot, package signing, or reproducible infrastructure for Debian distributions, it’s a relevant read.It covers:
* How signing workers are set up
* Secure Management of private keys
* Workflows to automate the tasks involved
* Future plans for extending the signing system and for better key protectionRead the post: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-secure-boot-signing/
If you're working on a Debian derivative and facing similar challenges, we’d love to hear from you: [email protected]
#Debian #UEFI #SecureBoot #Debusine #Freexian #LinuxSecurity
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54 Debian LTS Advisories about security updates for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors last month. These include critical security bug fixes for containerd, postgresql-13, request-tracker4, glibc and many more.
You can also read about LTS contributors testing out Debusine, an advanced CI platform for Debian-based distributions developed by Freexian, to upload packages into Debian and plans for an upcoming "sprint" during DebCamp 25.
Find more details in our monthly report for May: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-05/
This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Your organization too can sponsor the Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/) and join the esteemed list of sponsors in the monthly report.
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54 Debian LTS Advisories about security updates for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors last month. These include critical security bug fixes for containerd, postgresql-13, request-tracker4, glibc and many more.
You can also read about LTS contributors testing out Debusine, an advanced CI platform for Debian-based distributions developed by Freexian, to upload packages into Debian and plans for an upcoming "sprint" during DebCamp 25.
Find more details in our monthly report for May: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-05/
This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Your organization too can sponsor the Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/) and join the esteemed list of sponsors in the monthly report.
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Freexian offers Extended LTS (#ELTS) service which extends Debian's security support period up to 10 years.
In 2024, with #Debian 10 having reached its end-of-life on June 30th on the Debian side, #Freexian added Debian 10 to the set of ELTS releases that we are maintaining.
Debian 10 #buster is joining Debian 8 #jessie (still supported for 1 year) and Debian 9 #stretch (still supported for 3 years).
You can find more details by reading our blog post - https://www.freexian.com/blog/extended-lts-for-debian-10/
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Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian
Around a decade ago, I was happy to learn about bcache – a Linux block cache system that implements tiered storage (like a pool of hard disks with SSDs for cache) on Linux. At that stage, ZFS on Linux was nowhere close to where it is today, so any progress on gaining more ZFS features in general Linux systems was very welcome. These days we care a bit less about tiered storage, since any cost benefit in using anything else than nvme tends to quickly evaporate compared to time you eventually lose on it.
In 2015, it was announced that bcache would grow into its own filesystem. This was particularly exciting and it caused quite a buzz in the Linux community, because it brought along with it more features that compare with ZFS (and also btrfs), including built-in compression, built-in encryption, check-summing and RAID implementations.
Unlike ZFS, it didn’t have a dkms module, so if you wanted to test bcachefs back then, you’d have to pull the entire upstream bcachefs kernel source tree and compile it. Not ideal, but for a promise of a new, shiny, full-featured filesystem, it was worth it.
In 2019, it seemed that the time has come for bcachefs to be merged into Linux, so I thought that it’s about time we have the userspace tools (bcachefs-tools) packaged in Debian. Even if the Debian kernel wouldn’t have it yet by the time the bullseye (Debian 11) release happened, it might still have been useful for a future backported kernel or users who roll their own.
By total coincidence, the first git snapshot that I got into Debian (version 0.1+git20190829.aa2a42b) was committed exactly 5 years ago today.
It was quite easy to package it, since it was written in C and shipped with a makefile that just worked, and it made it past NEW into unstable in 19 January 2020, just as I was about to head off to FOSDEM as the pandemic started, but that’s of course a whole other story.
Fast-forwarding towards the end of 2023, version 1.2 shipped with some utilities written in Rust, this caused a little delay, since I wasn’t at all familiar with Rust packaging yet, so I shipped an update that didn’t yet include those utilities, and saw this as an opportunity to learn more about how the Rust eco-system worked and Rust in Debian.
So, back in April the Rust dependencies for bcachefs-tools in Debian didn’t at all match the build requirements. I got some help from the Rust team who says that the common practice is to relax the dependencies of Rust software so that it builds in Debian. So errno, which needed the exact version 0.2, was relaxed so that it could build with version 0.4 in Debian, udev 0.7 was relaxed for 0.8 in Debian, memoffset from 0.8.5 to 0.6.5, paste from 1.0.11 to 1.08 and bindgen from 0.69.9 to 0.66.
I found this a bit disturbing, but it seems that some Rust people have lots of confidence that if something builds, it will run fine. And at least it did build, and the resulting binaries did work, although I’m personally still not very comfortable or confident about this approach (perhaps that might change as I learn more about Rust).
With that in mind, at this point you may wonder how any distribution could sanely package this. The problem is that they can’t. Fedora and other distributions with stable releases take a similar approach to what we’ve done in Debian, while distributions with much more relaxed policies (like Arch) include all the dependencies as they are vendored upstream.
As it stands now, bcachefs-tools is impossible to maintain in Debian stable. While my primary concerns when packaging, are for Debian unstable and the next stable release, I also keep in mind people who have to support these packages long after I stopped caring about them (like Freexian who does LTS support for Debian or Canonical who has long-term Ubuntu support, and probably other organisations that I’ve never even heard of yet). And of course, if bcachfs-tools don’t have any usable stable releases, it doesn’t have any LTS releases either, so anyone who needs to support bcachefs-tools long-term has to carry the support burden on their own, and if they bundle it’s dependencies, then those as well.
I’ll admit that I don’t have any solution for fixing this. I suppose if I were upstream I might look into the possibility of at least supporting a larger range of recent dependencies (usually easy enough if you don’t hop onto the newest features right away) so that distributions with stable releases only need to concern themselves with providing some minimum recent versions, but even if that could work, the upstream author is 100% against any solution other than vendoring all its dependencies with the utility and insisting that it must only be built using these bundled dependencies. I’ve made 6 uploads for this package so far this year, but still I constantly get complaints that it’s out of date and that it’s ancient. If a piece of software is considered so old that it’s useless by the time it’s been published for two or three months, then there’s no way it can survive even a usual stable release cycle, nevermind any kind of long-term support.
With this in mind (not even considering some hostile emails that I recently received from the upstream developer or his public rants on lkml and reddit), I decided to remove bcachefs-tools from Debian completely. Although after discussing this with another DD, I was convinced to orphan it instead, which I have now done. I made an upload to experimental so that it’s still available if someone wants to work on it (without having to go through NEW again), it’s been removed from unstable so that it doesn’t migrate to testing, and the ancient (especially by bcachefs-tools standards) versions that are in stable and oldstable will be removed too, since they are very likely to cause damage with any recent kernel versions that support bcachefs.
And so, my adventure with bcachefs-tools comes to an end. I’d advise that if you consider using bcachefs for any kind of production use in the near future, you first consider how supportable it is long-term, and whether there’s really anyone at all that is succeeding in providing stable support for it.
#bcache #bcachefs #bcachefsTools #btrfs #Canonical #Debian #FOSDEM #Freexian #Packaging #Rust #Ubuntu #ZFS