Free software activities in September 2025

Tuesday, 30 September 2025

Summer has been winding down here in southern Ontario and beautiful fall colours have been slowly appearing around us, and with that, it’s time for my September free software activities report — albeit a very short one, as it turned out to be a busy month and I had few free software contributions.

GNU & FSF

• GNU Spotlight: I prepared and sent the September GNU Spotlight to the FSF campaigns team, who will review and publish it on the FSF’s community blog and as part of the next issue of the monthly Free Software Supporter newsletter.

Debian

• recutils: Last month, I adopted the recutils package in Debian, and uploaded version 1.9-4 to unstable to fix FTBFS bug #1066370. Today, I uploaded 1.9-4~bpo13+1 to trixie-backports to provide an easy way for users of Debian 13 (Trixie) to install recutils. The upload is currently in the backports NEW queue pending review by the backports team, and will appear in the archive if approved.

Misc

• I had a lovely chat with Prot earlier this month for his ‘Prot Asks’ series, where we talked about free software, free knowledge, the importance of community and the commons, and life in Canada.

That’s about it for this month’s report. I hope to have more to share next month.

Take care, and so long for now.

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