Santiago Ruano Rincón

Linux live patching in Debian

Emmanuel and Santiago filed ITP #1070494 in May 2024 about adding live patching support for linux in Debian. More that an ITP, our project is an Intend to Design, Implement and Maintain livepatching for the kernel.

The goal of this talk is to present our current plans, including the design of a first approach, and all the questions and concerns that come with this project. Questions include but are not limited to how to triage the security issues, how to maintain the patches, how to match the kernel image Debian lifecycle and how to distribute the patches. The presentation includes a live demo of a simple livepatch.

The work-in-progress prototyping can be found in the Salsa linux-livepatching repo.

This talk would be the opportunity to discuss live what would be the best way to support linux livepatching in Debian.

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How LTS goes beyond LTS

The goal of this talk is to provide a review of ways the Debian LTS Team aims at contributing beyond what we generally think of as “LTS”. The talk will bring some recognition to the hard work of the team members and also give examples that we hope will spark additional contributions from and collaborations with our fellow Debian Developers.

This talk will include brief discussions of LTS history and background, the sorts of activities performed, a bit about the specific focus area of the LTS Team, and then a review of some contributions made by the LTS Team, starting at the individual package level, moving out to the Debian project as a whole, and then looking at contributions to the broader free software community.