since people keep talking to me about my RC bug fixing activities, I thought
it might be time again for a short report. to be honest, I mostly stopped my
almost daily work at some point in december, partly because the overall
number of RC bugs affecting both testing &
unstable is quite low (& therefore the number of
easy-to-fix bugs), due to the auto-removal policy of the release team
(kudos!). – but I still kept track about RC bugs I worked on, &
here's the list; as you can see, mostly pkg-perl bugs …
#711430– src:libcgi-cookie-splitter-perl: "libcgi-cookie-splitter-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.18: test failures"
add patch from CPAN RT (pkg-perl)#711436– src:libdbix-abstract-perl: "libdbix-abstract-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.18: test failures"
upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)#711444– src:libgraph-readwrite-perl: "libgraph-readwrite-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.18: test failure"
upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)#711620– src:libthread-queue-any-perl: "libthread-queue-any-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.18: test failures"
upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)#724137– src:libschedule-cron-perl: "libschedule-cron-perl: FTBFS: Tests failures"
upload new upstream release#725570– src:pgfincore: "build postgresql-9.3 extension only"
send improved debdiff to the bug, thanks to Martin Pitt#730906– src:libredis-perl: "libredis-perl: FTBFS: Failed tests"
upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)#730925– src:libgeo-ip-perl: "libgeo-ip-perl: FTBFS: Failed tests"
upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)#731794– libanyevent-perl: "FBFTS: AnyEvent fails t/81_hosts.t on system with OpenDNS"
upload new upstream release prepared by Xavier Guimard (pkg-perl)#733364– src:libjxp-java: "libjxp-java: FTBFS: [javac] /«PKGBUILDDIR»/src/java/org/onemind/jxp/servlet/JxpServlet.java:29: error: package javax.servlet does not exist"
add missing build dependency (pkg-java)#733379– src:libonemind-commons-java-java: "libonemind-commons-java-java: FTBFS: [javac] /«PKGBUILDDIR»/src/java/org/onemind/commons/java/util/ServletUtils.java:28: error: package javax.servlet does not exist"
add missing build dependency (pkg-java)#733429– src:libcatalyst-modules-perl: "libcatalyst-modules-perl: FTBFS: Tests failed"
upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)#735054– src:libpoet-perl: "libpoet-perl: FTBFS: test failures: t/App.t"
add missing (build) dependency (pkg-perl)#735367– bti: "bti: stopped working after SSL/TLS traffic restriction, due to obsolete URL"
upload new upstream release#735823– src:libgtk3-perl: "libgtk3-perl: FTBFS: Tests failures"
set HOME for tests (pkg-perl)#736275– libmarc-xml-perl: "libmarc-xml-perl: CVE-2014-1626: XML External Entity privilege escalation"
upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)#736718– libalien-sdl-perl: "libalien-sdl-perl: depends on libtiff4 which is going away"
fix dependencies (pkg-perl)#736820– libnet-frame-perl: "libnet-frame-perl: package seems to depend on things that are not packaged"
upload new upstream release prepared by Daniel Lintott (pkg-perl)#736866– src:libjpfcodegen-java: "[src:libjpfcodegen-java] Sourceless file (minified)"
drop sourceless minified .js files (pkg-java)#737739– src:mumble: "mumble: CVE-2014-0044 CVE-2014-0045"
sponsor security upload for Chris Knadle#738419– src:libsvn-hooks-perl: "libsvn-hooks-perl: FTBFS: Tests failures"
fix (build) dependencies (pkg-perl)#738431– src:latex-make: "latex-make: FTBFS: Font T1/cmr/m/n/10=ecrm1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found"
propose patch, then fixed by maintainer#739144– src:librpc-xml-perl: "librpc-xml-perl: FTBFS: Test failure"
upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
ps: the how-can-i-help package is a nice tool for finding RC
bugs in packages you care about. install it if you haven't so far!
