DebConf 2025
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to DebConf 25! | Anupa Ann Joseph, Bastien Roucariès, Benjamin Somers, Nicolas Dandrimont, Pierre-Elliott Bécue, Santiago Ruano Rincón | video |
The DebConf organisation team welcomes you to the 26th edition of the yearly Debian community conference! | ||
| Debian.net Team BoF | Kyle Robbertze, Stefano Rivera, highvoltage | video |
A meetup of the debian.net infrastructure team and users.
What’s the current state of the service? What should we be improving? | ||
| DebConf 101 | Thais R. Araujo, Tássia Camões Araújo | video |
This ice-breaker session is an introduction to the DebConf culture. Especially put together for newcomers to the conference, it should also (hopefully) bring… | ||
| Continuous Key-Signing Party introduction | Gunnar Wolf, Jonathan McDowell | video |
One of DebConf’s recurring activities is the Key Signing Party. It helps Debian strengthen and expand its web of trust. This session will:
- Explain how… | ||
| When Free Software Communities Unite: Tails, Tor, and the Fight for Privacy | - Intrigeri | video |
Wow, it's been 10 years since the last talk about Tails at DebConf! In the meantime, Tails has survived, evolved, and thrived despite challenges. Eventually… | ||
| FAIme web service hands-on workshop | Thomas Lange | video |
Let’s try the FAIme web service for customized installation, cloud and live images together with help of the main author. After a short introduction you will… | ||
| You don't need to be an expert! A hitchhiker's guide to non-specialist Free Software contributions | Solveig | video |
Our Free Software projects need experts in many areas: developers, UX designers, technical writers, you name it. Any healthy, sustainable collective project… | ||
| Dealing with Dormant Packages: Ensuring Debian’s High Standards | Andreas Tille | video |
Through the Bug of the Day effort, I have noticed a significant number of packages that have not been uploaded for a long time. In most cases, the maintainer… | ||
| Stemming with Snowball | Olly Betts | video |
Search is pervasive in the modern world, but for many human languages an
effective search feature benefits significantly from stemming.
Snowball provides… | ||
| Empowering Education with Debian: Fostering Open-Source Learning in Academia | Ranjana Gujrati | video |
This talk explores the transformative role of Debian in the education sector, focusing on how its free, stable, and community-driven ecosystem empowers… | ||
| I18N for Package Maintainers | Marc Haber | video |
Most documentation available in Debian and the "outside world" explains how to do translations. What is kind of missing is explanation for package maintainers… | ||
| Training Students in Free Software Development through GNU/Linux ecosystem contributions | David Tadokoro | video |
This talk will showcase how the Free Software Development course at the University of São Paulo (IME-USP) trains students to become active contributors to the… | ||
| Package Acceptance in Debian: Challenges and Opportunities | Andreas Tille | video |
Building on the "Meet the FTP Team" BoF at DebConf24 in Busan, this session aims to foster a constructive discussion on how we can work together to streamline… | ||
| l10n and i18n BoF | Carlos Henrique Lima Melara | video |
Internationalization and Localization are essential parts of an operating system that aims to be universal. Last year we had the kick-off BoF for members of… | ||
| Lomiri in Debian - Convergence for all Device Form Factors | Mike Gabriel | video |
For Debian, Lomiri is a new operating environment provided in a usable scope of functionalities starting with Debian 13. Some may remember the Ubuntu Touch… | ||
| Merge Request based Collaboration for Debian packages | Otto Kekäläinen | video |
While single-maintainer packages will continue to exist, there are also many maintainers who feel that working collaboratively is more motivating, helps… | ||
| Debian Financials BoF | Paulo Santana | video |
From Andreas email:
Debian incurs ongoing expenses to support its infrastructure--particularly hardware maintenance and upgrades--as well as to fund in-person… | ||
| Federated instant messaging, 100% debianized | Elena Grandi | video |
Getting away from centralized services is now more important than ever; thanks to prosody or ejabberd and a number of clients for all tastes, it is easy to… | ||
| Publicity Team BoF | Anupa Ann Joseph, Jean-Pierre Giraud, Joost van Baal-Ilić, Paulo Santana | video |
This talk from the Publicity team will share our workflow and how we work inside and outside of Debian. | ||
| Supporting WoA (Windows-on-Arm) Laptops in Debian | Christopher Obbard | video |
This BoF is to bring together developers, contributors and users who are interested in improving Debian support for Windows-on-Arm (WoA) laptops such as the… | ||
| tag2upload - upload simply by pushing a signed git tag | Ian Jackson | video |
Uploading to Debian is a complicated and balky business involving tarballs, patches, and arcane runes.
tag2upload allows DDs and DMs to upload by simply… | ||
| Welcome Address – DebConf 2025 Academic Track | Bastien Roucariès | video |
Welcome to the DebConf 2025 Academic Track! We are pleased to welcome fellow academics to the first academic sessions of DebConf, organized in collaboration… | ||
| A retrieval-augmented-generation pipeline to help users query system-provided documentation | Gunnar Wolf, Tzolkin GARDUNO ALVARADO | video |
The increasing integration of AI into computing workflows demands a re-evaluation of traditional operating system design. In environments like Debian, users… | ||
| Using sbuild in 2025 (extended version) | Chris Hofstaedtler, Jochen Sprickerhof | video |
A lot of changes have happened in sbuild during the Trixie development cycle. In this talk, two sbuild maintainers will give an overview of how sbuild can be… | ||
| Using Debusine to pre-test your unstable uploads | Colin Watson | video |
Debusine can build and run tests against your Debian uploads before sending them to the Debian archive. It can build your upload on multiple architectures and… | ||
| Integrating Knowledge Graphs into the Debian Ecosystem | Alexander Belikov | video |
In an era where software systems are increasingly complex and interconnected, understanding and managing the relationships between packages, maintainers… | ||
| Guidelines for Boosting Long-Lasting FLOSS Contributors | David Tadokoro | video |
Free Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) development is a validated approach to producing cutting-edge software solutions used by governments, companies… | ||
| Reviving (un)schroot? | Helmut Grohne | video |
The `schroot` tool has been the primary build backend used by `sbuild` for a long time. More and more work has gone into a new `unshare` backend that we are… | ||
| reproduce.debian.net - rebuilding what is distributed from ftp.debian.org | Holger Levsen | video |
reproduce.debian.net attempts to bit-for-bit identically rebuild each Debian binary package found in the distribution archive, using the .buildinfo file… | ||
| Debian in the Research Software ecosystem: An Exploratory Bibliometric Analysis | Joenio Marques da Costa | video |
_Context_:
The Debian system has historically participated in academic works and
scientific projects, with well-known examples including NeuroDebian… | ||
| Debusine Workflow BoF | Colin Watson, Enrico Zini, Raphaël Hertzog, Stefano Rivera | video |
Discussion about what workflows would be useful to build out in Debusine, to support Debian development.
This BoF is aimed at Debian contributors who have… | ||
| ArchWiki - a biased SWOT analysis | Jakub Klinkovský, Vladimir LAVALLADE | video |
In the vast landscape of Linux distributions, Arch Linux stands out for its rolling release model and the community-driven ArchWiki. We've been invited to… | ||
| Static linking pitfalls, harms and challenges | Bastien Roucariès | video |
A static library or a statically linked library contains functions and data that can be included in a computer program at build-time such that the library does… | ||
| From Realistic and Automated Fish Digital Twin to Data Ethics: Building Reproducible Pipelines and Dataset for Biological AI | Bastien Lagneaux | video |
This paper presents a limited and preliminary automated pipeline for generating hydrodynamic digital twins of fish from real-world experimental data, combining… | ||
| Debian LTS BoF | Bastien Roucariès, Carlos Henrique Lima Melara, Lucas Kanashiro, Santiago Ruano Rincón, Sylvain Beucler | video |
The Debian LTS team aims to provide security support for five years after the initial release, taking over the Security and Release Team on the third… | ||
| Debian Wiki BoF | Steve McIntyre | video |
Let's talk about the Debian wiki!
We've had some discussions already about a few topics:
- Updating the wiki software itself
- How best to organise the wiki… | ||
| Guix: From transparent and verifiable to long-term reproducible research? | Simon Tournier | video |
What's Guix? A build system? A package manager? An operating system? A Guile/Scheme library? And why academics already in love with Debian might be interested… | ||
| Packages not using the default build flags: a taxonomy | Emanuele Rocca | video |
Whilst working on PAC/BTI enablement on arm64, we found a sizable number of packages in the Debian archive not using the default build flags (think CFLAGS and… | ||
| Bits from the DPL | Andreas Tille | video |
It’s been an interesting experience to serve as DPL. I’d like to share my perspective on the project with the community. | ||
| The security of Debian - An introduction to advanced users | Samuel Henrique | video |
How Debian handles security vulnerabilities (CVEs) for its packages.
Learn how security vulnerabilities are tracked and fixed, together with some tips on how… | ||
| Community Team BoF | Andrew Martin Adrian Cater, Daniel Gröber, Daniel Lenharo, Luke Faraone, Steve McIntyre, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz | video |
Community Team BoF
Come and meet the Debian Community Team - hear what we do, ask us questions, discuss how to live in the world of Debian | ||
| ArKanjo: a tool for detecting function-level Code Duplication in the Linux Kernel | David Tadokoro | video |
The Linux kernel's massive scale (+28 M LoC, +20 K contributors) presents unique maintenance challenges. Surprisingly, Code duplication remains a persistent… | ||
| Semi-serious stand up comedy, 10 years later | Enrico Zini | video |
10 years have passed since Heidelberg.
I'm older~~ and wiser~~.
I will again ramble freely about Debian and everything else I care about. I will cover topics… | ||
| Twisting Debian for running on Mobile Devices | Arnaud Ferraris | video |
Over the past 5 years, the DebianOnMobile and Mobian teams have worked towards making it possible to run Debian on (a few) smartphones and tablets. This… | ||
| Meet the Technical Committee | Christoph Berg, Craig Small, Helmut Grohne, Matthew Vernon, Paul Tagliamonte, Stefano Rivera, Timo Röhling | video |
An opportunity to meet the members of the Debian Technical Committee who are in attendance at DebConf, learn about the work of the Technical Committee, and… | ||
| Kali Linux: Delivery of a rolling distro at scale with Mirrorbits | Arnaud Rebillout | video |
Kali Linux is a rolling Linux distribution based on Debian. Packages and images are distributed via a network of _community mirrors_, and a _redirector_ in… | ||
| Debian on mobile devices BoF | Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras | video |
Interested in running and/or developing Debian on your smartphone or tablet?
Mobian, a thin layer on top of Debian, has got you covered.
Topics for the meet… | ||
| Debian Python BoF | Stefano Rivera | video |
The annual Python Team BoF at DebConf! During this session we will discuss Python’s future in Debian and how people can help.
Whether you’re just using… | ||
| Real-Time capabilities on Debian: Concept and practical use | Erwann Roussy | video |
As Linux increasingly powers embedded systems, industrial automation, and time-sensitive applications, real-time capabilities have become essential. This talk… | ||
| Optimizing the Debian packaging workflow for easier collaboration and fewer burnouts | Otto Kekäläinen | video |
As a long-term Debian community member I am concerned about the [dropping number of active maintainers](https://salsa.debian.org/rafael/debian-contrib-years… | ||
| Go Team BoF | Ananthu C V, Mathias Gibbens | video |
A time for Go Team members and other interested parties to get together for discussion. While no formal plan currently exists, we'll probably spend a decent… | ||
| Don't fear the TPM | Jonathan McDowell | video |
After many years of being treated as something to be disabled or ideally avoided TPMs (Trusted Platform Modules) are gaining in popularity within the Linux… | ||
| Testing Debian on embedded systems using labgrid and gitlab-ci. | Manuel Traut, Philippe Mosberger | video |
Testing multiple embedded systems that run a partial Debian derivate is a challenge!
You might install kernels that do not boot and require a restore of the… | ||
| Salsa BoF | Antonio Terceiro, Thomas Goirand | video |
Please join this session, and meet Sasla admins. Let's discuss how we can improve Salsa, and the Debian Git packaging infrastructure.
We're open to many… | ||
| Hardening Debian from UEFI to Userland, an example with LF Energy SEAPATH | Eloi Bail, Mathieu Dupré | video |
Mathieu and Eloi are the main contributors of LF Energy SEAPATH which use Debian as an VM hypervisor to host critical applications within Digital… | ||
| What’s new in Apertis, a Debian derivative tailored for industrial embedded devices | Dylan Aïssi | video |
[Apertis](https://www.apertis.org/) is a collaborative OS platform that includes an operating system, but also tools and cloud services to optimize development… | ||
| Infrastructure as Code Meets Linux Distribution: Our Debian Derivative CI/CD Experience | Marcel Hamer, Mark Asselstine | video |
In this presentation, we share our experience developing eLxr, a Debian derivative distribution, using GitLab CI/CD pipelines over the past year. We'll focus… | ||
| Future of archive-wide testing | Lucas Nussbaum | video |
Over the years, Debian has grown many services and efforts to perform various kinds of tests on source or binary packages: archive rebuilds, autopkgtest &… | ||
| What's new in OpenStack Epoxy and in Debian | Thomas Goirand | video |
This talk will give an update on the new features available in the new Epoxy release, as shipped in Debian 13 (aka: Trixie). It's been a long time I haven't… | ||
| Automating "downstream" Debian package builds and updates in CI | Matthew Vernon | video |
The Wikimedia Foundation's infrastructure runs on Debian. We sometimes need to make local changes to packages provided by Debian, or to backport Debian… | ||
| Skills exchange: triaging large numbers of failures | Antonio Terceiro | video |
Large-scale QA work in Debian requires processing a significant number of packages, and eventually report bugs to the Debian BTS. Varying levels of automation… | ||
| Kubernetes in Debian: A Resurgence from the Ashes | Arthur Diniz | video |
Last year, we talked about the first steps of bringing Kubernetes into Debian. Since then, the Debian Kubernetes Team has made big progress!
In this talk… | ||
| Modern and interoperable email with JMAP | Benoit Tellier | video |
Landscape of email client applications is dominated by IMAP, the only ubiquitous interoperable protocol allowing one to read emails.
However IMAP suffers… | ||
| ci.rocm.debian.net: a Debian CI with AMD GPUs, for AI/ML packages | Christian Kästner | video |
Much of number-crunching today is performed on GPUs. This especially applies to AI/ML-driven workloads. ROCm is AMD's open source software stack for general… | ||
| Lightning Talks | highvoltage, Tobias Frost, Roland Clobus, Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras, Kiruthika NV, Philip Hands, Elena Grandi, Andrew Martin Adrian Cater, Holger Levsen, Edward Betts | video |
Lightning talks and Live Demos - present yours here! Lightning talk slots are 5 minutes.
* 00:40 Roland Clobus: QA with openQA
* 07:12 Evangelos Ribeiro… | ||
| virtme-ng: quickly test a kernel from Debian | Helen Koike | video |
In this talk, we’ll introduce virtme-ng, a tool used to easily test a Linux kernel on a virtual machine.
You can compile your own kernel and use your system’s… | ||
| Mitigating kernel development bottlenecks and supporting the GNU/Linux ecosystem with kworkflow | David Tadokoro | video |
The Linux kernel project sits at the base of a gigantic and complex Free Software ecosystem. As a two-way road, downstream projects - the most prominent… | ||
| Salsa CI now running for 27 000 packages - what have we learnt? | Otto Kekäläinen | video |
I have been using Salsa CI since its inception, and contributing as a
team member since 2019. Now in 2025 there are over 27,000 source
packages in Debian using… | ||
| The Role of Free Software and Debian in Green Sustainability | Mylena Angelica | video |
This talk explores the pivotal role of free software, with a focus on Debian, in advancing sustainability within the technology sector. As digital… | ||
| Preseed your PBX for Fun and Profit | Chris Maj | video |
## What is a PBX ?
Private Branch eXchange (PBX) systems connect desk phones in your school or office to outside lines from the telephone company. Over the… | ||
| apt install lucie --from-source : LUCIE, the Fully "Libre LLM" you can build, hack and trust ! | Michel-Marie Maudet | video |
As AI becomes a core part of our digital infrastructure, the need for fully Free and auditable models is critical. LUCIE-7B is one of the first large language… | ||
| Debian-on-the-go | Roland Clobus | video |
Audience: Non-technical audience
An introduction to the live images that can be used to have Debian with you without the need for installation.
I'll present… | ||
| Free as in Bytes | Craig Small | video |
How much memory is free on your system? It seems like a simple enough answer and for some people it is "whatever the free program says".
But what if you wrote… | ||
| cross building BoF | Helmut Grohne | video |
Cross building is the act of building a package for a machine running a different CPU architecture, kernel or C library than the one where the build is being… | ||
| Debian Outreach Session | Lucas Kanashiro | video |
In this session, current and previous interns from Outreachy and Google Summer of Code (GSoC) in the last year will be presenting their work. Stay tuned and do… | ||
| How we maintain 1000+ servers : from security updates to newer Debian releases. | Gregory Colpart, Jeremy Lecour | video |
As a hosting company, we manage more than 1000 Debian servers.
Almost every week we install security updates on 1000 servers in less than 1 hour. Every couple… | ||
| ci.debian.net/autopkgtest BoF | Antonio Terceiro, Paul Gevers | video |
This is the traditional (?) BoF about all things related to autopkgtest, ci.debian.net, and friends. autopkgtest-influenced testing migration is in the hands… | ||
| Mutual Support Across Local Teams | Aquila Macedo, Sérgio Cipriano | video |
Over the past few years, we’ve been working closely as a Local Team to grow our community and support Free Software events in Brazil.
This talk is a chance to… | ||
| Bits from Brazil | Daniel Lenharo, Paulo Santana | video |
Since 2022 We have reported the actions of Debian community in Brazil. This year, we will talk about the last year (2024/2025): The organization of events such… | ||
| Project ESSTRA : A software suite to enhance software transparency and traceability in the software supply chain | Hideki Yamane, Takuya Namae | video |
When you use open-source software, do you want to know which source files are compiled and included in the binaries? Project ESSTRA… | ||
| Free Software, creation & ownership: a designer's perspective | Juliana Camargo | video |
When using proprietary creative software, designers must agree that their work will be used to train AI models, with no compensation provided.
GIMP, Inkscape… | ||
| Finding bugs where nobody has found before: helping cURL to avoid patch releases | Carlos Henrique Lima Melara | video |
cURL has been consistently making patch releases for more than 26 years, but
now these days might be over. With a combination of Release Candidates and… | ||
| Meet the people behind Debian Artwork | Anupa Ann Joseph, Juliana Camargo, Juliette Taka, Woohee Yang | video |
In this session we will introduce four women who have done contributions to Debian through their artwork.
Juliette Taka: She has been doing artwork for… | ||
| Electronics BOF | Bdale Garbee | video |
This session will start with an update on the state of Debian packages used for electronics work, then transition to a discussion about work needed in the… | ||
| How Embedded C/C++ Toolchains Work | Keith Packard | video |
We've got a bunch of embedded C/C++ toolchains, but no real unifying strategy. GCC comes from a variety of sources; the supported C and C++ libraries vary and… | ||
| Approaching the speed of light with Debian: Debians' role in the worlds largest particle accelerator | Federico Vaga, Nikos Tsipinakis | video |
CERN is the home of the LHC, the largest particle accelerator in the world accelerating protons to 99.9999991% of the speed of light (that's ~300.000 km/s). To… | ||
| Rethinking Cryptography in the Linux Kernel: Preparing for the Post-Quantum (PQC) Era | Yunseong Kim | video |
# Preparing the Linux Kernel for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
This session explores practical steps and considerations for enabling Post-Quantum… | ||
| debian.social BoF | Kyle Robbertze, Rhonda D'Vine, Stefano Rivera, highvoltage | video |
A meetup of the debian.social team and community.
How are things going? What next? | ||
| Debian Science Team BoF | Anton Gladky | video |
This BOF is a chance for Debian Science team members and interested people to meet face-to-face. We will talk about who is working on what and share updates on… | ||
| What's new in the Linux kernel (and what's missing in Debian) | Ben Hutchings | video |
The Linux kernel has a very active development community, constantly adding not only new hardware support but new features. Some of these features can simply… | ||
| What I Learned while rewriting the d/copyright file for rsync | Matheus Polkorny | video |
Maintaining the `debian/copyright` file for a large package like `rsync` might seem straightforward at first, but in practice, it involves technical decisions… | ||
| QGIS and Debian: Making Geospatial Data Accessible Through Free Software | Ana Oliveira | video |
QGIS is a powerful and accessible free software tool for working with geospatial data — and it is available directly from Debian's repositories. In this talk… | ||
| wcurl - one year later | Samuel Henrique | video |
wcurl, the "simple wrapper around curl to easily download files", created for Debian, has come a long way since its creation 1 year ago and it's now shipped as… | ||
| Salsa CI BoF | Ahmed Siam, Emmanuel Arias, Otto Kekäläinen, Santiago Ruano Rincón | video |
A meeting for discuss about salsa-ci project, its current state and future work. Let's talk how to improve salsa-ci.
Whether you’re using salsa-ci or you… | ||
| DebConf Committee BoF | Antonio Terceiro, Gunnar Wolf, Nattie Mayer-Hutchings, Stefano Rivera | video |
Meet the DebConf committee. See and hear us discussing this years and next years’ DebConf. Give us feedback and ask for improvements. | ||
| Rust packaging in Debian | Fabian Grünbichler | video |
Over the past couple of years, Rust has seen more and more adoption in FOSS
projects, including within Debian. Core distribution components like apt,
desktop… | ||
| Bits from APT | Julian Andres Klode | video |
Fresh and clean, the new APT 3.0 is out. The new solver will soon be the default, the UI continues refinement, and a whole lot more.
Join me in looking at… | ||
| DebConf 26 BoF | Emmanuel Arias, Gunnar Wolf, Leonardo Martinez, Martin bayo | video |
We have the fine tradition of having DebConf N share their experiences with DebConf N+1. The DebConf committee will also be present and we invite a core member… | ||
| New Directions in Rust packaging - workshop | Ian Jackson | video |
There is considerable room for improvement in our Rust packaging workflows. In this Bof I hope to understand the constraints and consider options, outside of… | ||
| Ham Radio in Debian | Christoph Berg, Paul Tagliamonte | video |
Ham Radio is a hobby with many facets, and Debian offers a lot of packages for radio enthusiasts. We present various ways to get on the air with Debian.
-… | ||
| DebConf 27: In your city? | Antonio Terceiro, Gunnar Wolf, Nattie Mayer-Hutchings, Stefano Rivera | video |
Session to discuss possible locations for DebConf27!
DebConf 26 is planned to be held in Santa Fe, Argentina. But we have no plans for DebConf27, yet. | ||
| Xapian BoF | Olly Betts | video |
Xapian is used to implement fast search by dozens of packages in the archive, from akonadiconsole to zeitgeist-core, as well as by several parts of the Debian… | ||
| Closing Ceremony | Antonio Terceiro, Benjamin Somers, David Prévot, Gunnar Wolf, Leonardo Martinez, Martin bayo, Nattie Mayer-Hutchings, Nicolas Dandrimont, Pierre-Elliott Bécue, Santiago Ruano Rincón, Sruthi Chandran, Stefano Rivera | video |
We say farewell to DebConf 25 and look forward to DebConf 26! | ||
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