# Mobian development update: packaging, Salsa migration, and kernel status from July to October 2022

DevFeed: [Mobian development update: packaging, Salsa migration, and kernel status from July to October 2022](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/these-past-4-months-in-mobian-july-october-2022-34229.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2022/11/01/tmim/>)

Author: Mobian team

Published: 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Mobian's Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mobian-s-blog.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [Debian](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debian.md>), [systemd](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systemd.md>), [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ci.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [GitLab](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gitlab.md>)

Tags: [ci](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci.md>), [debian](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debian.md>), [dev](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dev.md>), [gitlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gitlab.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [patches](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/patches.md>), [systemd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systemd.md>)

## AI overview

Mobian's July-October 2022 development update covers progress on puremaps packaging, resolution of an image resizing bug, the move to Salsa for package maintenance and builds, and changes to issue tracking. It also reports kernel updates, including camera and USB-C improvements on supported devices, alongside a camera regression after the Linux 6.0 update.

## Source excerpt

As we're reaching the end of the month we slightly overshot the month, it's time to look back at what happened since July. Monthly dev meeting Highlights: puremaps packaging is progressing. Some of the dependencies are now in Debian unstable, clearing the way for the main package. The image resizing bug has been solved by switching to systemd-repart and systemd-growfs. @undef was instrumental in this switch by contributing several fixes upstream to make things work smoothly. Currently working on the best way to support config fragments in u-boot-menu (#1012333) to support encrypted PinePhone Pro installs and PinePhones with the VCCQ mod. Everyone loves salsa! We completed the move to Salsa, though there were a few issues along the way: kernels couldn't be built through CI due to limits in artifacts size, forcing us to create a simpler, different pipeline for those packages the issue tracker remained on gitlab.com for a while, until we decided on the best way to handle this migration These problems have now been solved, meaning all packages are now maintained and built on Salsa. We also decided to get rid of the single issue tracker and instead ask users to open issues in the corresponding repo/project. Finally, we won't be migrating issues from gitlab.com as they would then lose all authorship information. We therefore ask users who had previously opened issues on gitlab.com to create new issues on Salsa, notifying them by leaving a comment on existing issues explaining the way forward (example). Kernel status Due to a desire to ship a kernel with a working camera the 5.18 release cycle was skipped for most devices. 5.19 on the other hand has been released shortly after upstream, and most device families can now even use 6.0-based kernels, although this is not the default yet. Those more recent kernels contains a number of improvements including: Working camera on the PinePhone Pro (using a script like https://salsa.debian.org/-/snippets/611, no Megapixels support y