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good news: from looking through RC bugs in the BTS, it seems that more & more people are starting to join the RCBW effort!

& here's my usual list for the past week:

• #633935 – src:fim: "fim: Please Build-Depends on libjpeg-dev, not libjpeg62-dev"
  do as the bug report says, upload to DELAYED/2
• #634400 – src:morituri: "morituri: FTBFS: tests failed"
  add upstream patch (via Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen), upload to DELAYED/2
• #643464 – src:radeontool: "radeontool: FTBFS: radeontool.c:42:5: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  apply patch from Jonathan Nieder, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643473 – src:python-kinterbasdb: "python-kinterbasdb: FTBFS with firebird-dev (2.5) -- removed defines"
  do a QA upload with the patch from Damyan Ivanov
• #650788 – src:python-osd: "python-osd: binary-indep doesn't build python-osd"
  update build-* target in debian/rules, upload to DELAYED/2
• #652245 – src:tomoe: "tomoe: FTBFS: dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source --after-build tomoe-0.6.0 gave error exit status 1"
  send ideas for fix to BTS, later NMUd by a fellow DD
• #652700 – haildb: "haildb ftbfs if libcloog-ppl0 is not installed"
  sponsor NMU by Tobias Frost, upload to DELAYED/2
• #654255 – src:cmucl: "cmucl: FTBFS: Error: Unbound symbol."
  suggest manual close, done by maintainer
• #654257 – src:newlib: "newlib: FTBFS: cannot find the library `sys/linux/liblinux.la' or unhandled argument `sys/linux/liblinux.la'"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / Wookey and Steve Langasek, upload to DELAYED/2

here's the list of RC bugs I've worked on during the last week:

• #590822 – python-jaxml: "python-jaxml: cannot be bytecompiled with Python 2.7: SyntaxError: cannot assign to __debug__"
  sponsor (modified) NMU by Miguel Landaeta, upload to DELAYED/2
• #592382 – src:liblunar: "liblunar: hardcoded dependency on python-support"
  use ${python:Depends} in Depends [Jakub Wilk], upload to DELAYED/2
• #615765 – pornview: "pornview: ftbfs with gold or ld --no-add-needed"
  add patch to pass -lm to linker, upload to DELAYED/2
• #641971 – gsnmp: "Fix FTBFS with moved glib-2.0 headers."
  add patch from Ubuntu / Matthias Klose, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643050 – src:autodir: "autodir: FTBFS: dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b autodir-0.99.9 gave error exit status 2"
  change config.{sub,guess} handling to a "3.0 (quilt)" compatible way, upload to DELAYED/2
• #648384 – buildbot: "buildbot: FTBFS due to missing build-dependency on python-twisted-words"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #653953 – magicmaze: "magicmaze searches for Isabella.ttf in wrong place, crashes."
  add patch to search .ttf file in new location, upload to DELAYED/2
• #654257 – src:newlib: "newlib: FTBFS: cannot find the library `sys/linux/liblinux.la' or unhandled argument `sys/linux/liblinux.la'"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Wookey & Steve Langasek, send to BTS
• #654911 – python-lunar: "python-lunar: missing dependency on python-gtk2"
  add python-gtk2 to Depends [Jakub Wilk], upload to DELAYED/2

while working on RC bugs, I noticed that some DDs sent patches to the BTS in the last weeks (yeah!) but did not upload the fixes in NMUs. short request: could you please either state the reason for not uploading, or just go ahead and dput/dupload the fixed packages?

& here's my list:

• #587698 – ipcheck: "ipcheck: on python2.6: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'close'"
  sponsor NMU by Miguel de Val-Borro, upload to DELAYED/2
• #633843 – python-sqlobject: "python-sqlobject: autocommit issue with psycopg2"
  add upstream patch, upload to DELAYED/2
• #639068 – src:python-glpk: "python-glpk: FTBFS: unsatisfiable build-dependency: libglpk-dev (< 4.44) but 4.45-1 is to be installed"
  close-by-forcemerge (duplicate)
• #651320 – src:ganglia: "FTBFS: aborting due to unexpected upstream changes"
  fix handling of config.{guess,sub} and patches, upload to DELAYED/2
• #651625 – src:gnash: "gnash: FTBFS (npapi/plugin.cpp)"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #651763 – rutilt: "rutilt FTFBS in sid include/WE17Driver.h:107:31: error: reference 'm_Data' cannot be declared 'mutable' [-fpermissive]"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Colin Watson, upload to DELAYED/2
• #654899 – libarchive-zip-perl: "libarchive-zip-perl: jh_manifest from javahelper creates corrupt archives (jars)"
  upload package with patches from Niko Tyni (pkg-perl)
• #655825 – src:libmojomojo-perl: "libmojomojo-perl: FTBFS: tests failed"
  add patch to use Digest::SHA (pkg-perl)

new year, old hobby: trying to fix an RC bug per day, & reporting about it. – here's the first episode of 2012:

• #554737 – src:gpivtools: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  close manually, already fixed through an NMU
• #623253 – libcrypt-ssleay-perl: "libcrypt-ssleay-perl: Crypt::SSLeay aborts hard with HTTPS_VERSION=2"
  adopt package, add patch from CPAN RT (pkg-perl)
• #640688 – src:slxfig: "slxfig: FTBFS: configure: error: unable to find the slang library and header file slang.h"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Ilya Barygin, upload to DELAYED/2
• #651906 – binutils-m68hc1x: "binutils-m68hc1x: FTBFS format security problems."
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #652179 – src:hardinfo: "hardinfo: FTBFS: ld: cannot find -lffi"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Julien Lavergne, upload to DELAYED/2
• #652192 – src:wsjt: "wsjt: FTBFS: gfortran: error: portaudio-v19/lib/.libs/libportaudio.a: No such file or directory"
  adjust to multiarch, based on patch from Hideki Yamane, upload to DELAYED/2
• #652252 – src:ust: "ust: FTBFS: tracepoint_benchmark.h:27: undefined reference to `unlikely'"
  sponsor NMU by Gregor Jasny, upload to DELAYED/2, later rescheduled, then cancelled after maintainer upload
• #652854 – libdecodeqr: "libdecodeqr FTBFS in unstable "configure: error: libcv.la not found.""
  add 2 patches from peter green, first upload to DELAYED/2, later to DELAYED/0 because of the FTBFSs on buildds

a rather lazy bugsquashing week but with a little cheating a managed to get at at least 7 RC bugs:

• #642738 – src:styx: "styx: FTBFS: ./config.status: 1358: ./config.status: gawk: not found"
  add missing build dependency, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643471 – src:lbreakout2: "lbreakout2: FTBFS: server.c:1093:16: error: 'LC_ALL' undeclared (first use in this function)"
  add a patch to include locale.h, upload to DELAYED/2
• #648842 – src:libpgplot-perl: "libpgplot-perl: needs to be rebuilt against perl 5.14"
  do a versioned close, Carlo Segre has manually rebuilt the package (pkg-perl)
• #650598 – src:pygpiv: "pygpiv: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h:34:24: fatal error: glibconfig.h: No such file or directory"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / Daniel Polehn, Michael Terry, upload to DELAYED/2
• #651231 – src:xymon: "FTBFS: PCRE not found"
  add (extended) patch from from Ubuntu / Steve Langasek, upload to DELAYED/5, later rescheduled to 0-day by maintainer
• #651907 – src:ido: "ido FTBFS uses G_CONST_RETURN with G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #652446 – p7zip: "p7zip FTBFS with multiarch libwxgtk2.8-dev"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2

thanks to my vacations starting I had a bit more time this week for working on RC bugs. – here's the usual list; again: thanks to all the restless patch providers!

• #555880 – src:overgod: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Julian Taylor, upload to DELAYED/2
• #556500 – src:transfermii: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Andreas Moog, upload to DELAYED/2
• #556715 – src:xoo: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Mahyuddin Susanto, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625117 – src:mm3d: "mm3d: FTBFS: cmdmgr.cc:27:47: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625404 – pidgin-sipe: "pidgin-sipe: ftbfs with gcc-4.6 -Werror"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625409 – uisp: "uisp: ftbfs with gcc-4.6 -Werror"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #630638 – pidgin-sipe: "pidgin-sipe: FTBFS with pdigin 2.8.0-1 in unstable"
  add patch from archlinux, upload to DELAYED/2
• #640319 – src:jed: "jed: FTBFS: gcc-4.6.real: error: unrecognized option '-V'"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643363 – src:clp: "clp: FTBFS: CbcOrClpParam.cpp:1078:43: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Wolfram Sang, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643364 – src:coinor-cbc: "coinor-cbc: FTBFS: ../../Clp/src/CbcOrClpParam.cpp:1078:43: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Wolfram Sang, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643365 – src:coinor-symphony: "coinor-symphony: FTBFS: Master/main.c:674:19: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add a patch to add a format argument, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643390 – src:glabels: "glabels: FTBFS: plessey.c:151:9: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add a patch to add a format argument, QA upload
• #643405 – src:hdate-applet: "hdate-applet: FTBFS: callbacks.c:360:2: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  do a versioned close, the bug is fixed by the previous NMU
• #643409 – src:ippl: "ippl: FTBFS: log.c:150:5: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add a patch to add format arguments, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643452 – src:palp: "palp: FTBFS: Subpoly.c:870:3: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add a patch to add format arguments, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643468 – src:rubrica: "rubrica: FTBFS: app.c:1831:8: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add a patch to add format arguments, upload to DELAYED/2
• #651581 – sac: "sac ftbfs on armel and armhf. struct user conflicts with system header"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2, later uploaded by maintainer
• #652229 – src:libhttp-lrdd-perl: "libhttp-lrdd-perl: FTBFS: Failed 1/2 test programs. 1/2 subtests failed."
  upload new upstream release, package prepared by Florian Schlichting (pkg-perl)
• #652749 – src:libmodule-install-xsutil-perl: "libmodule-install-xsutil-perl: FTBFS: unsatisfiable build-dependency: libextutils-parsexs-perl (>= 2.210000) (versioned dep on a virtual pkg?)"
  swap build dependencies (pkg-perl)
• #652760 – src:libextutils-xspp-perl: "libextutils-xspp-perl: FTBFS: unsatisfiable build-dependency: libextutils-parsexs-perl (>= 2.220200) (versioned dep on a virtual pkg?)"
  swap build dependencies (pkg-perl)
• #652774 – src:libmodule-build-perl: "libmodule-build-perl: FTBFS: unsatisfiable build-dependencies (purely virtual?): libextutils-cbuilder-perl (>= 0.2700), libextutils-parsexs-perl (>= 2.210000)"
  swap build dependencies (pkg-perl)

here's my RCBW report for this week. again, nothing spectacular, mostly uploading packages where patches were already in the BTS. – thanks to all the patch creators and forwarders!

• #553968 – src:blktrace: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Ilya Barygin, upload to DELAYED/2
• #554408 – src:fuse-umfuse-iso9660: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  add patch from Luk Claes, upload to DELAYED/2
• #554755 – src:gtodo: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  add patch from Bart Martens, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625319 – chiark-tcl: "chiark-tcl: ftbfs with gcc-4.6 -Werror"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625327 – filtergen: "filtergen: ftbfs with gcc-4.6 -Werror"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625343 – gltron: "gltron: ftbfs with gcc-4.6 -Werror"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #642709 – src:ctsim: "ctsim: FTBFS: /bin/sh: 0: Can't open ./config.status"
  fix debian/rules (config.{guess,sub} handling and duplicate make clean), upload to DELAYED/2
• #643403 – src:gtodo: "gtodo: FTBFS: callback.c:133:4: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Bart Martens, upload to DELAYED/2

a quiet RCBW week, here's the usual status report:

• #615766 – predict: "predict: ftbfs with gold or ld --no-add-needed"
  add patch from Ubuntu / John T. Nogatch, upload to DELAYED/2
• #619274 – myspell-gv: "myspell-gv: Remove unconditional call to soon to disappear 'update-openoffice-dicts'"
  drop debian/myspell-gv.post{inst,rm}, upload to DELAYED/2
• #624441 – scsitools: "rescan-scsi-bus call nonexistent usleep command"
  add patch based on suggestion from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625102 – src:aplus-fsf: "aplus-fsf: FTBFS: ../MSTypes/MSTypeData.H:54:23: error: declaration of 'operator new' as non-function"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Andreas Moog, upload to DELAYED/2
• #640444 – src:gtkhtml3.14: "gtkhtml3.14: FTBFS: gtkhtml.c:1541: undefined reference to `sqrt'"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #640591 – smbind: "smbind: installation fails: /var/lib/dpkg/info/smbind.postinst: 42: local: not in a function"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2, later rescheduled to DELAYED/0 at maintainer's request
• #644091 – src:genus2reduction: "genus2reduction: Unversioned build-dependency on libpari-dev"
  make build dependency versioned, upload to DELAYED/2
• #651537 – src:libio-socket-inet6-perl: "libio-socket-inet6-perl: FTBFS: Test failures"
  add build dependency and check before testing (pkg-perl)

here's my report about RC bug related activities for the last week. – besides working on the bugs mentioned below I've also documented my RCBW work flow for the NMUs, just in case it's interesting for others.

• #615705 – dasher: "dasher: ftbfs with gold or ld --no-add-needed"
  add patch from Mònica Ramírez Arceda, upload to DELAYED/2
• #628590 – siggen: "please make siggen depends on oss-compat"
  add missing dependency, do a QA upload
• #633453 – drac: "drac: fails to install due to incorrect dependencies in init.d LSB header"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #634451 – src:hwinfo: "hwinfo: FTBFS: /usr/include/dbus-1.0/dbus/dbus.h:29:33: fatal error: dbus/dbus-arch-deps.h: No such file or directory"
  add patch from Simon McVittie, upload to DELAYED/2
• #638379 – xine-ui: "xine-ui: fatal error: curl/types.h: No such file or directory"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #639772 – src:slrn: "slrn: FTBFS: checking for the slang library and header files ... no"
  point configure to multiarched slang, upload to DELAYED/2
• #639991 – guile-1.8-non-dfsg: "guile-1.8-non-dfsg fails to build from source in unstable"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Matthias Klose, upload to DELAYED/2
• #640439 – src:gtk-nodoka-engine: "gtk-nodoka-engine: FTBFS: nodoka_style.c:1279: undefined reference to `sqrt'"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Micah Gersten, upload to DELAYED/2
• #640883 – libnet-ldap-perl: "regression: breaks $ldap->start_tls()"
  add patch from Peter Marschall, taken from upstream's "next" branch (pkg-perl)
• #643339 – src:most: "most: build fails on configure-step (couldn't find slang.h)"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643371 – src:dasher: "dasher: FTBFS: game_mode_helper.cpp:327:15: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload the DELAYED/2
• #649066 – libmason-perl: "libmason-perl and mason: error when trying to install together"
  upload new upstream release, package prepared by Florian Schlichting (pkg-perl)

after the rather intensive last week, this week was more business as usual. – here's the list:

• #565064 – src:xshisen: "xshisen: ftbfs with gcc-4.5 and gcc-4.6"
  add patch inspired by patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #608927 – src:klog: "FTBFS with gold / ld --no-add-needed"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Felix Geyer, upload to DELAYED/2
• #613387 – libbio-das-lite-perl: "libbio-das-lite-perl: FTBFS: test failures"
  disable tests that need internet access, upload to DELAYED/2
• #618063 – src:fvwm: "fvwm: FTBFS: libfontconfig.so.1: could not read symbols: Invalid operation"
  close as unreproducible locally and on Grid'5000
• #618099 – src:kwave: "kwave: FTBFS: KwaveFileDialog.cpp:37:66: error: call of overloaded 'QString(int)' is ambiguous"
  close as unreproducible locally and on Grid'5000
• #618231 – src:wmnut: "wmnut: FTBFS: x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc: @LIBSSL_LDFLAGS@: No such file or directory"
  close as unreproducible locally and on Grid'5000
• #622068 – src:asio: "asio: FTBFS: ./../include/asio/ssl/detail/openssl_context_service.hpp:73:20: error: '::SSLv2_method' has not been declared"
  apply patch from Cristian Greco, upload to DELAYED/2
• #624203 – vpnc: "more verbose iproute makes vpnc fail connecting"
  sponsor NMU prepared by Florian Schlichting
• #639032 – src:gtklp: "gtklp: FTBFS: gtklp.h:99:1: error: unknown type name 'ppd_file_t'"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Colin Watson, upload to DELAYED/2
• #644113 – gtklp: "gtklp: FTBFS format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #646488 – src:wmtemp: "wmtemp: FTBFS: dockapp.c:52:16: error: variable 'stat' set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #646503 – src:xmlroff: "xmlroff: FTBFS: fo-area-page.c:907:12: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #646559 – gnome-alsamixer: "gnome-alsamixer: Latest version 0.9.7~cvs.20060916.ds.1-2.1 is unusable (segmentation fault)."
  sponsor maintainer upload