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as expected this week was characterised by fixing bugs around the perl 5.14 transition. besides that I've also uploaded a couple of NMUs with patches kindly provided in the BTS by some tireless bug fixers.

• #554047 – src:cellwriter: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Mahyuddin Susanto, upload to DELAYED/2
• #628500 – src:prima: "prima: FTBFS with perl 5.14: error: 'sv_undef' undeclared"
  patch to change functions that rely on removed PERL_POLLUTE, upload to DELAYED/2 (perl-5.14)
• #629284 – src:libpod-constants-perl: "libpod-constants-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: Can't use string [...] as an ARRAY ref"
  patch Makefile.PL (older and newer EUMM) (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #636268 – src:libdbix-class-timestamp-perl: "libdbix-class-timestamp-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: test failures"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #636271 – src:libtest-www-declare-perl: "libtest-www-declare-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: tests fail"
  new patch to work with perl 5.14 regexp (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #636517 – src:libregexp-optimizer-perl: "libregexp-optimizer-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: test failures"
  new patch to work with perl 5.14 regexp (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #636520 – src:libtest-html-content-perl: "libtest-html-content-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: tests fail"
  send a patch to the BTS, uploaded by the maintainer (perl-5.14)
• #636521 – src:libtest-log4perl-perl: "libtest-log4perl-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: tests fail"
  new patch to work with perl 5.14 regexp (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #636522 – src:libtest-simpleunit-perl: "libtest-simpleunit-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: tests fail"
  new patch to work with perl 5.14 regexp (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #643040 – src:abcm2ps: "abcm2ps: FTBFS: dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b abcm2ps-5.9.22 gave error exit status 2"
  backup/restore Makefile in debian/rules, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643359 – src:blktool: "blktool: FTBFS: util.c:31:3: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643362 – src:cellwriter: "cellwriter: FTBFS: src/statusicon.c:215:17: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643369 – src:crack-attack: "crack-attack: FTBFS: callbacks.cxx:116:38: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643370 – src:d52: "d52: FTBFS: d52pass2.c:935:3: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643374 – src:dis51: "dis51: FTBFS: pass2.c:186:4: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643375 – src:ebview: "ebview: FTBFS: dialog.c:72:6: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643383 – src:gfan: "gfan: FTBFS: application.cpp:548:22: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643384 – src:gfccore: "gfccore: FTBFS: error.cc:116:52: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643413 – src:jack-tools: "jack-tools: FTBFS: jack.dl.c:20:3: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Mònica Ramírez Arceda, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643417 – src:libccscript3: "libccscript3: FTBFS: compiler.cpp:1147:38: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Ilya Barygin, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643448 – src:nvramtool: "nvramtool: FTBFS: hexdump.c:94:7: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643457 – src:pidgin-librvp: "pidgin-librvp: FTBFS: rvp.c:4271:3: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload to DELAYED/2
• #646286 – src:genders: "genders: FTBFS: crti.o: No such file or directory"
  send a patch to the BTS, uploaded by the maintainer (perl-5.14)
• #646297 – src:spread: "spread: FTBFS: Spread.xs:463:4: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add format argument, do a QA upload (perl-5.14)
• #648858 – src:libdbd-oracle-perl: "libdbd-oracle-perl: needs to be rebuilt against perl 5.14"
  manually rebuild against perl 5.14 (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #649055 – libgnome2-gconf-perl: "libgnome2-gconf-perl: FTBFS (Failed 1/1 test programs. 0/0 subtests failed)"
  add patch from Colin Watson (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #649058 – libdata-alias-perl: "libdata-alias-perl: FTBFS on mips powerpc s390 sparc"
  add patch from Niko Tyni (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #649180 – src:libmouse-perl: "libmouse-perl: swap libextutils-parsexs-perl/perl dep"
  upload fixed package prepared by Alessandro Ghedini (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)

& another mix of various RC bug fixes: applying patches from others, fixing stuff myself, closing obsolete bugs:

• #634650 – src:xplanet: "xplanet: Please Build-Depends on libjpeg-dev, not libjpeg62-dev"
  do as the bug report requests, upload to DELAYED/2
• #637936 – libtunepimp: "FTBFS: fatal error: curl/types.h: No such file or directory"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #639152 – src:csmash: "csmash: Please Build-Depends on libjpeg-dev, not libjpeg62-dev"
  fix build-deps, upload to DELAYED/2
• #639176 – src:fdm: "fdm: FTBFS: unsatisfiable build-dependency: tdb-dev (>= 1.1.1~svn26294-1.1) (versioned dep on a virtual pkg?)"
  fix build-deps, upload to DELAYED/2, later sponsor maintainer upload
• #640588 – roundup: "roundup: package purge (after dependencies removal) fails"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #640597 – ekeyd: "ekeyd: installation fails"
  fix postinst (check for existence of init script), upload to DELAYED/2
• #640599 – anon-proxy: "anon-proxy: installation fails: chown: cannot access `/var/run/anon-proxy': No such file or directory"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #642689 – src:mailsync: "mailsync: FTBFS: configure: error: a working c-client installation is required for building mailsync"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / Ilya Barygin, upload to DELAYED/2
• #642721 – src:libcaca: "libcaca: FTBFS: make[4]: *** [refman.pdf] Error 1"
  unreproducible with the newest version neither locally nor on Grid'5000, do a versioned close
• #642793 – src:tkgate: "tkgate: FTBFS: ERROR: Unable to find library X11"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / Andreas Moog, QA upload
• #647120 – src:libgeo-proj4-perl: "libgeo-proj4-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: CCFLAGS should include $Config{ccflags}"
  add patch from Dominic Hargreaves, upload to DELAYED/2

in somehow related news: the perl 5.14 transition has begun. that also means that the severity of some bug reports was raised, & maybe we'll see some new ones. but it also means these bugs are easier to fix now that perl 5.14 is in unstable.

this week showed an interesting mixture of RC bug fixes: applying patches from others, writing one on my one, adjusting build dependencies, & also closing some bugs that did not occur anymore during the last Grid'5000 run & are also unreproducible locally (thanks to Lucas for the hint).

• #625412 – tuxpuck: "tuxpuck: ftbfs with gcc-4.6 -Werror"
  false positive of the -Werror mass bug filing, close the bug
• #634283 – src:qsstv: "qsstv: FTBFS Please Build-Depends on libjpeg-dev, not libjpeg62-dev"
  do as the bug report requests, upload to DELAYED/2
• #634426 – src:mssh: "mssh: FTBFS: mssh-terminal.c:49:5: error: 'vte_terminal_fork_command' is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/vte-0.0/vte/vtedeprecated.h:82) [-Werror=deprecated-declarations]"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / Michael Vogt, upload to DELAYED/2
• #634532 – src:pyabiword: "pyabiword: FTBFS: libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libfreetype.la' is not a valid libtool archive"
  builds successfully locally and at Grid'5000, close the bug
• #634539 – src:rss-glx: "rss-glx: FTBFS: libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libfreetype.la' or unhandled argument `/usr/lib/libfreetype.la'"
  builds successfully locally and at Grid'5000, close the bug
• #634542 – src:morla: "morla: FTBFS: libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libcurl.la' is not a valid libtool archive"
  builds successfully locally and on the buildds, close the bug
• #634545 – src:pdl: "pdl: FTBFS: build-dependency not installable: libhdf4-alt-dev"
  builds successfully locally and at Grid'5000, close the bug
• #634547 – src:kdevelop-php: "kdevelop-php: FTBFS: /build/kdevelop-php-T0YRXE/kdevelop-php-1.2.2/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/parser/phpparser.h:7:20: fatal error: phpast.h: No such file or directory"
  builds successfully locally and at Grid'5000, close the bug
• #634557 – src:slcfitsio: "slcfitsio: FTBFS: configure: error: unable to find the cfitsio library and header file fitsio.h"
  adjust to multiarched build dependencies, upload to DELAYED/2
• #634562 – src:wv: "wv: FTBFS: libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libfreetype.la' is not a valid libtool archive"
  builds successfully locally and at Grid'5000, close the bug
• #634578 – src:arpon: "arpon: FTBFS: Libpthread not found!"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Steve Langasek, Andreas Moog, Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #634592 – src:libshout: "libshout: FTBFS: devlibs error: There is no package matching [libc6-dev] and noone provides it, please report bug to d-shlibs maintainer"
  builds successfully locally and at Grid'5000, close the bug
• #634606 – src:gcolor2: "gcolor2: FTBFS: *** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! ***"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Colin Watson, upload to DELAYED/2
• #634637 – src:tuxpuck: "tuxpuck: Please Build-Depends on libjpeg-dev, not libjpeg62-dev"
  do as the bug report requests, upload to DELAYED/2
• #634647 – src:xloadimage: "xloadimage: Please Build-Depends on libjpeg-dev, not libjpeg62-dev"
  do as the bug report requests, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643442 – src:morla: "morla: FTBFS: about.c:258:3: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add a patch which adds format arguments to g_snprintf(), upload to DELAYED/2

a bit late & short (I was travelling the last days) but here it is: the recent update of my RC bug acitivities:

• #625430 – vrb: "vrb: ftbfs with gcc-4.6 -Werror"
  add patch from Dmitri Bachtin, upload to DELAYED/2, then rescheduled to 0-day with maintainer's permission
• #625433 – simulavr: "simulavr: ftbfs with gcc-4.6 -Werror"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #628256 – src:boinc-app-milkyway: "boinc-app-milkyway: FTBFS: g++: error: unrecognized option '--export_dynamic'"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #628300 – src:arrayprobe: "arrayprobe: FTBFS: Configuration file ".config" not found!"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Matthias Klose, upload to DELAYED/2
• #628318 – src:kcheckgmail: "kcheckgmail: FTBFS: index.docbook:6: warning: failed to load external entity "dtd/kdex.dtd""
  add patch from Ubuntu / Michael Bienia, do a QA upload
• #628348 – src:nn: "nn: FTBFS: ymakefile:12: *** commands commence before first target. Stop."
  add patch from Ubuntu / Andreas Moog, upload to DELAYED/2
• #629658 – src:crossroads: "crossroads: FTBFS: start.cc:22: undefined reference to `pthread_create'"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Andreas Moog, upload to DELAYED/2

I'm not the first one who thought about managing their dotfiles & scripts in a (D)VCS in order to be able to have them in sync across different machines, & I even haven't re-invented the wheel for doing so. – short report on my experiences:

after looking around a bit I decided to try movein (info page with links to downloads & a README, blog post, git repo) because it looked liked it would easily do what I'd like to do without getting in my way too much; which means e.g.: no symlink farm, & only one simple command to manage the whole setup.

movein is a simple shell script that allows to setup & manage multiple modular repos tracking different sets of files quite easily, taking advantage of the powers of git & mr. & being written in shell means I also was able to make a few changes, which stew kindly accepted & applied to his tree already.

in fact I'm just starting to use it for real, but it looks good so far, & I think I'm going to stick with it for the time being.

2 minor observations:

• git in squeeze vs. wheezy/sid behave differently: the former happily & silently overwrites existing files, the latter dies loudly on each existing file. – not sure which behaviour I actually prefer.
• running mr up on a couple of repos from a machine without an ssh key on the target machine is kind of boring ...

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this week my activities were split between some freshly-reported pkg-perl bugs, & looking at some of the older RC bugs. for most of the ones in the latter category I found again ready-to-be-applied patches, many of them from Ubuntu again. – details:

• #565087 – njam: "njam: ftbfs with gcc-4.5"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Andreas Moog, upload to DELAYED/2
• #614476 – src:rtpproxy: "rtpproxy: FTBFS: rtpp_syslog_async.c:88: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments"
  add format argument, upload to DELAYED/2
• #621997 – src:tiemu: "tiemu: FTBFS: gui/calc/calc.c:589:4: error: 'GtkFunction' undeclared (first use in this function)"
  grab patches from Ubuntu, upload to DELAYED/2
• #622067 – src:gnome-alsamixer: "gnome-alsamixer: FTBFS: gnome-app-helper.h:620:2: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'GtkCallbackMarshal'"
  add patches from Ubuntu / Julien Lavergne, upload to DELAYED/2
• #624965 – src:critterding: "critterding: FTBFS: BulletSoftBody/btSoftBodyInternals.h:175:17: error: uninitialized const 'zerodummy' [-fpermissive]"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #641156 – tv-fonts: "FTBFS: xset: not found"
  unset DISPLAY in debian/rules, upload to DELAYED/2, later integrated in maintainer upload
• #645543 – src:libio-aio-perl: "libio-aio-perl: FTBFS(kfreebsd): error: 'O_CLOEXEC' undeclared (first use in this function)"
  upload package prepared by ghedo (pkg-perl)
• #645754 – libmath-base85-perl: "Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D"
  repack tarball to get rid of non-free rfc (pkg-perl)
• #646289 – src:libdata-amf-perl: "libdata-amf-perl: FTBFS: Missing build-deps on YAML::Base?"
  override test (move away old third-party file) (pkg-perl)
• #646290 – src:libdata-show-perl: "libdata-show-perl: FTBFS: test failures"
  add patch from upstream developer release (pkg-perl)
• #646296 – src:libxml-atom-service-perl: "libxml-atom-service-perl: FTBFS: test failures"
  patch test (pkg-perl)

here's my list of recent RC bug fixes, again comprising bugs which already had a patch in the BTS:

• #625330 – fileschanged: "fileschanged: ftbfs with gcc-4.6 -Werror"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Colin Watson, upload to DELAYED/2
• #634414 – src:libnsbmp: "libnsbmp: FTBFS: src/libnsbmp.c:297:11: error: variable 'uheight' set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Matthias Klose, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643348 – src:ale: "ale: FTBFS: ui/unsupported.h:35:30: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Bart Martens, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643350 – src:alsamixergui: "alsamixergui: FTBFS: Fl_AM.cxx:154:20: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Bart Martens, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643353 – src:asmix: "asmix: FTBFS: asmix.c:580:5: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Bart Martens, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643356 – src:babl: "babl: FTBFS: babl-model.c:49:7: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Bart Martens, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643404 – src:gyrus: "gyrus: FTBFS: gyrus-admin.c:1474:4: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Bart Martens, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643431 – src:libnet: "libnet: FTBFS: libnet_init.c:88:17: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Bart Martens, upload to DELAYED/2

another week, another list of fixed RC bugs, again most of them with patches from ubuntu. – &, as zack said today, the next freeze is not really imminent but it's getter closer.

• #625002 – src:ctemplate: "ctemplate: FTBFS: ./src/ctemplate/template_dictionary.h:73:11: error: 'ptrdiff_t' does not name a type"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Matthias Klose, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625005 – src:cdrdao: "cdrdao: FTBFS: ScsiIf-linux.cc:287:37: error: no matching function for call to 'stat::stat(const char [22], stat*)'"
  add patch from brian m. carlson, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625064 – src:zziplib: "zziplib: FTBFS: x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc: error: unrecognized option '--export-dynamic'"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Matthias Klose, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625068 – src:liborigin: "liborigin: FTBFS: tree.hh:138:21: error: 'ptrdiff_t' does not name a type"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Colin Watson, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625080 – src:fstrcmp: "fstrcmp: FTBFS: ./lib/diffseq.h:461:38: error: 'bxbest' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Colin Watson, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625096 – src:zipios++: "zipios++: FTBFS: directory.h:85:12: error: 'ptrdiff_t' does not name a type"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Julian Taylor, upload to DELAYED/2
• #634394 – src:gauche-c-wrapper: "gauche-c-wrapper: FTBFS: gcc: error: /usr/lib/libffi_pic.a: No such file or directory"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Matthias Klose, upload to DELAYED/2
• #644189 – libcrypt-dsa-perl: "libcrypt-dsa-perl: signing leaks secret key on systems"
  upload package with patch prepared by Harlan (pkg-perl)
• #644423 – libterm-readline-gnu-perl: "libterm-readline-gnu-perl: FTBFS: Could not find neither libtermcap.a, libncurses.a, or libcurses."
  add patch to find -ltinfo (pkg-perl)

another weekly report about RC bugs I've fixed, this time mostly by applying patches from ubuntu:

• #564971 – clamfs: "clamfs: ftbfs with gcc-4.5"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Colin Watson, upload to DELAYED/2
• #565088 – nitpic: "nitpic: ftbfs with gcc-4.5"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Colin Watson, QA upload
• #615684 – qucs: "qucs: ftbfs with gcc-4.5"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #621933 – src:libuninameslist: "libuninameslist: FTBFS: eval: 1: base_compile+= -c: not found"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Colin Watson, upload to DELAYED/2
• #624895 – src:magnus: "magnus: FTBFS: include/Associations.h:153:3: error: using temporary as lvalue [-fpermissive]"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Matthias Klose, QA upload
• #624967 – src:linpsk: "linpsk: FTBFS: ../../src/linpsk.cpp:693:67: error: taking address of temporary [-fpermissive]"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Matthias Klose, upload to DELAYED/2
• #624983 – src:idesk: "idesk: FTBFS: DesktopConfig.cpp:134:40: error: no matching function for call to 'stat::stat(const char*, stat*)'"
  add patch from brian m. carlson, upload to DELAYED/2
• #642803 – libmouse-perl: "libmouse-perl: test suite failure on ia64 causes FTBFS"
  upload patched package prepared by ghedo (pkg-perl)

quick overview over my RC bug activities during the last week:

• #594277 – blm: "blm: non-standard gcc/g++ used for build (gcc-4.3)"
  drop explicit build dependency on g++-4.3 and do a QA upload (which was REJECTed because another DD uploaded it between me looking at the bug and uploading it)
• #616254 – src:libcaca: "libcaca: replace doxygen and texlive-* build dependencies with doxygen-latex"
  update build dependencies as requested (more or less) and upload to DELAYED/2
• #635448 – collabtive: "collabtive: sources file that was removed in postrm purge"
  check for existence of script in postrm before using it and upload to DELAYED/2
• #638252 – chrony: "chrony refuses to start on kernel 3.x"
  forcemerge (and thereby close) with #628919
• #638589 – libcaca: "libcaca: Missing build dependancies for documentation building."
  fixed in connection with #616254
• #640559 – src:ircd-hybrid: "ircd-hybrid: FTBFS: make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/libpcre.a', needed by `ircd'. Stop."
  apply patch from Ubuntu / Colin Watson and upload to DELAYED/2
• #640565 – src:scrollz: "scrollz: FTBFS: make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/include/sys/stat.h', needed by `alias.o'. Stop."
  apply multiarch related patch from Ubuntu / Matthias Klose and upload to DELAYED/2
• #640568 – src:cpqarrayd: "cpqarrayd: FTBFS: tar (child): /usr/src/.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory"
  update packaging for 3.x kernels and upload to DELAYED/2
• #640625 – src:scim-bridge: "scim-bridge: FTBFS: rm: cannot remove `debian/tmp/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/*/immodules/im-scim-bridge.a': No such file or directory"
  apply multiarch changes from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen and do a QA upload
• #642034 – libjifty-plugin-oauth-perl: "FTBFS: Can't locate Test/Script/Run.pm in @INC"
  add missing build dependency (pkg-perl)
• #642166 – src:libjifty-plugin-wikitoolbar-perl: "libjifty-plugin-wikitoolbar-perl: FTBFS: missing build-dep on libtest-script-run-perl"
  add missing build dependency (pkg-perl)
• #642167 – src:libjifty-plugin-comment-perl: "libjifty-plugin-comment-perl: FTBFS: missing build-dep on libtest-script-run-perl"
  add missing build dependency (pkg-perl)
• #642237 – src:libdbd-odbc-perl: "libdbd-odbc-perl: FTBFS: fails to configure"
  adjust build system to multi-arched odbc-dev (pkg-perl)

random notes:

• "look, mom, #RCBW and /me are mentioned in the recent debian project news!"
• looking at the ubuntu box in a package's PTS page sometimes shows valuable patches that have not yet been forwarded to the debian BTS & are just waiting to be applied.