thanks to lucas & his trainees, we're seeing archive rebuilds & tons of new RC bugs again. – besides that, there are still some patches in the BTS.

here goes my list of recently worked on bugs; most of them in the pkg-perl group …

• #665549 – src:gtk-nodoka-engine: "gtk-nodoka-engine: Including individual glib headers no longer supported"
  apply patch from Michael Biebl, upload to DELAYED/2
• #665559 – src:indicator-applet: "indicator-applet: Including individual glib headers no longer supported"
  apply patch from Michael Biebl, upload to DELAYED/2
• #665596 – src:photoprint: "photoprint: Including individual glib headers no longer supported"
  apply patch from Michael Biebl, upload to DELAYED/2
• #665601 – src:qstardict: "qstardict: Including individual glib headers no longer supported"
  apply patch from Michael Biebl, upload to DELAYED/2
• #700229 – src:gpm: "FTBFS with glibc 2.17, missing include"
  add patch from Adam Conrad / Ubuntu (missing include), upload to DELAYED/2
• #701447 – src:zfs-fuse: "zfs-fuse: ftbfs with eglibc-2.17"
  add patch from Ben Collins / Ubuntu, upload to DELAYED/2, moved to 0-day after maintainer feedback
• #708809 – src:substance: "substance: FTBFS: [javac] /«PKGBUILDDIR»/src/test/contrib/setskin/MainClass.java:150: cannot find symbol"
  upload package prepared by Emmanuel Bourg (pkg-java)
• #713121 – src:libscalar-does-perl: "libscalar-does-perl: FTBFS: unsatisfiable build-dependency: perl (>= 5.16) but 5.14.2-21 is to be installed"
  fix build dependency in git (pkg-perl)
• #713223 – src:libredis-perl: "libredis-perl: FTBFS: tests failed"
  add patch from upstream bugtracker (pkg-perl)
• #713227 – src:libmail-deliverystatus-bounceparser-perl: "libmail-deliverystatus-bounceparser-perl: FTBFS: tests failed"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #713228 – src:libextutils-modulemaker-perl: "libextutils-modulemaker-perl: FTBFS: test failed"
  set HOME during build (pkg-perl)
• #713229 – src:libxml-compile-cache-perl: "libxml-compile-cache-perl: FTBFS: tests failed"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #713233 – src:libplack-perl: "libplack-perl: FTBFS: tests failed"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #713241 – src:libfile-save-home-perl: "libfile-save-home-perl: FTBFS: tests failed"
  set HOME during build (pkg-perl)
• #713245 – src:libtext-csv-encoded-perl: "libtext-csv-encoded-perl: FTBFS: tests failed"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #713246 – src:libmojomojo-perl: "libmojomojo-perl: FTBFS: tests failed"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #713247 – src:librt-client-rest-perl: "librt-client-rest-perl: FTBFS: tests hang"
  update build dependency (pkg-perl)
• #713251 – src:libmojolicious-plugin-authentication-perl: "libmojolicious-plugin-authentication-perl: FTBFS: tests failed"
  add patch from upstream bugtracker (pkg-perl)
• #713253 – src:libtemplate-plugin-latex-perl: "libtemplate-plugin-latex-perl: FTBFS: tests failed"
  apply patch from CPAN RT (pkg-perl)
• #713259 – src:libdist-zilla-plugin-git-perl: "libdist-zilla-plugin-git-perl: FTBFS: # Unable to open source/.gitnxtver_cache: No such file or directory"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #713265 – src:perlbrew: "perlbrew: FTBFS: tests failed"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #713266 – src:libsql-abstract-more-perl: "libsql-abstract-more-perl: FTBFS: tests failed"
  upload fixed package prepared by Oleg Gashev (pkg-perl)
• #713267 – src:libmojolicious-plugin-basicauth-perl: "libmojolicious-plugin-basicauth-perl: FTBFS: tests failed"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #713556 – src:iodine: "iodine: FTBFS: (.text+0x19a): undefined reference to `floor'"
  deactivate tests until the check library is fixed
• #713682 – src:libnet-cups-perl: "libnet-cups-perl: FTBFS: CUPS.xs:10:24: fatal error: cups/image.h: No such file or directory"
  add patch from upstream bugtracker (pkg-perl)

I've set up a windows machine yesterday (& today since this takes so long). on my own old laptop. at home. & it's running in my apartment.

feels strange after living in windows-free apartments for quite some years. & I'm still not sure how I feel about it.

the purpose of resurrecting my old laptop is to run a CPAN smoke tester. there are constant complaints in the perl community about the low amount of test reports from windows installations (& for older distributions, so I'm running CPAN::Reporter::Smoker with 'reverse' => 1, at least once).

for the time being, I'm using non-free software to improve free software. – let's see how this develops …

ps: I'm also running a CPAN smoke tester on my raspberry pi (under raspbian with a perlbrewed perl) since a few days. it's a bit slow but well :)

I know, I'm starting to repeat myself but: this week was again characterized more be RC bug prevention than by actual RC bug fixing. – in other words: I was mostly dealing with not-yet release-critical bugs around the perl 5.18 transition.

actual RC bugs I've worked on (also mostly pkg-perl related):

• #666799 – libapache2-reload-perl: "libapache2-reload-perl: sourceful transition towards Apache 2.4"
  upload to unstable after review (adaption to apache 2.4) (pkg-perl)
• #666800 – libapache-singleton-perl: "libapache-singleton-perl: sourceful transition towards Apache 2.4"
  upload to unstable after review (adaption to apache 2.4) (pkg-perl)
• #666807 – libapache-authenhook-perl: "libapache-authenhook-perl: sourceful transition towards Apache 2.4"
  upload to unstable after review (adaption to apache 2.4) (pkg-perl)
• #707528 – libpackage-stash-perl: "libpackage-stash-perl: Package::Stash::* used only once; causes FTBFS in other packages"
  some investigation (pkg-perl)
• #710873 – libapache2-mod-perl2: "libapache2-mod-perl2: FTBFS with newer libhttp-message-perl: t/api/err_headers_out.t failures"
  prepare a patch in git and upload after some tweaks and ntyni's help (pkg-perl)
• #711314 – libmockito-java: "Missing jars in /usr/share/maven-repo"
  re-upload built against recent maven-*-helper packages to DELAYED/1
• #711419 – src:libcgi-application-plugin-devpopup-perl: "libcgi-application-plugin-devpopup-perl: FTBFS: Got copyright stanza with unrecognised field"
  fix debian/copyright and debian/components/copyright.in (pkg-perl)
• #711631 – src:libstring-toidentifier-en-perl: "libstring-toidentifier-en-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.18: test failure"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #711632 – src:libtest-www-mechanize-mojo-perl: "libtest-www-mechanize-mojo-perl: FTBFS: pod coverage test failure"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)

here's the overview about my RC bug fixing activities for the last week:

• #666799 – libapache2-reload-perl: "libapache2-reload-perl: sourceful transition towards Apache 2.4"
  prepare adaption to apache 2.4 in git (pkg-perl)
• #666800 – libapache-singleton-perl: "libapache-singleton-perl: sourceful transition towards Apache 2.4"
  prepare adaption to apache 2.4 in git (pkg-perl)
• #666807 – libapache-authenhook-perl: "libapache-authenhook-perl: sourceful transition towards Apache 2.4"
  prepare adaption to apache 2.4 in git (pkg-perl)
• #666822 – libapache2-mod-perl2: "libapache2-mod-perl2: sourceful transition towards Apache 2.4"
  upload the package to unstable, most of the work done by Niko Tyni (pkg-perl)
• #666837 – libapache2-authcookie-perl: "libapache2-authcookie-perl: sourceful transition towards Apache 2.4"
  try to prepare adaption to apache 2.4 in git (pkg-perl)
• #678380 – remotetea: "remotetea: FTBFS with Java7 as default java"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / James Page, upload to DELAYED/2
• #684296 – tomcat-maven-plugin: "tomcat-maven-plugin: Drop build dependency on openjdk-6-jdk"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / James Page, upload to DELAYED/2
• #684305 – umlet: "umlet: Transition package to use default java implementation"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / James Page, upload to DELAYED/2
• #709055 – netmrg: "netmrg: FTBFS with multiarch net-snmp"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / Colin Watson, upload to DELAYED/2
• #709183 – librep: "librep: FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64"
  apply patch from Steven Chamberlain, upload to DELAYED/2
• #710416 – courier-filter-perl: "courier-filter-perl: postinst uses /usr/share/doc content (Policy 12.3)"
  fix installation of config file (pkg-perl)