after the release is before the release. – or: long time no RC bug report.

after the jessie release I spent most of my Debian time on work in the Debian Perl Group. we tried to get down the list of new upstream releases (from over 500 to currently 379; unfortunately the CPAN never sleeps), we were & still are busy preparing for the Perl 5.22 transition (e.g. we uploaded something between 300 & 400 packages to deal with Module::Build & CGI.pm being removed from perl core; only team-maintained packages so far), & we had a pleasant & productive sprint in Barcelona in May. – & I also tried to fix some of the RC bugs in our packages which popped up over the previous months.

yesterday & today I finally found some time to help with the GCC 5 transition, mostly by making QA or Non-Maintainer Uploads with patches that already were in the BTS. – a big thanks especially to the team at HP which provided a couple dozens patches!

& here's the list of RC bugs I've worked on in the last 3 months:

• #752026 – libpdl-stats-perl: "libpdl-stats-perl: FTBFS on arm*"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #755961 – autounit: "FTBFS with clang instead of gcc"
  apply patch from Alexander <sanek23994@gmail.com>, QA upload
• #755963 – clearsilver: "FTBFS with clang instead of gcc"
  apply patch from Alexander <sanek23994@gmail.com>, upload to DELAYED/5
• #777776 – src:apron: "apron: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  tag as unreproducible
• #777780 – src:asmon: "asmon: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Martin Michlmayr, upload to DELAYED/5
• #777783 – src:atftp: "atftp: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Martin Michlmayr, upload to DELAYED/5
• #777797 – src:bbrun: "bbrun: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  add patch to build with "-std=gnu89", upload to DELAYED/5
• #777806 – src:booth: "booth: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  tag as unreproducible
• #777808 – src:bwm-ng: "bwm-ng: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  merge patch from Ubuntu, and build with "-std=gnu89", upload to DELAYED/5
• #777831 – src:deborphan: "deborphan: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Jakub Wilk, upload to DELAYED/5, then rescheduled to 0-day with maintainer's permission
• #777835 – src:dsbltesters: "dsbltesters: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  tag as unreproducible
• #777853 – src:flow-tools: "flow-tools: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Alexander Balderson, upload to DELAYED/5
• #777880 – src:gnac: "gnac: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Greg Pearson, upload to DELAYED/5
• #777881 – src:gngb: "gngb: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Greg Pearson, upload to DELAYED/5
• #777895 – src:haildb: "haildb: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  tag as unreproducible
• #777902 – src:hfsplus: "hfsplus: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  merge patch from Ubuntu, QA upload
• #777903 – src:hugs98: "hugs98: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Elizabeth J Dall, upload to DELAYED/5
• #777965 – src:libpam-chroot: "libpam-chroot: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Linn Crosetto, upload to DELAYED/5
• #777975 – src:libssh: "libssh: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Matthias Klose, upload to DELAYED/5
• #778009 – src:mknbi: "mknbi: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Matthias Klose, QA upload
• #778020 – src:mz: "mz: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Joshua Gadeken, upload to DELAYED/5
• #778051 – src:overgod: "overgod: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Nicholas Luedtke, upload to DELAYED/5
• #778056 – src:pads: "pads: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Andrew Patterson, upload to DELAYED/5
• #778121 – src:sks-ecc: "sks-ecc: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Brett Johnson, QA upload
• #778129 – src:squeak-plugins-scratch: "squeak-plugins-scratch: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Brett Johnson, upload to DELAYED/5
• #778137 – src:tabble: "tabble: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from David S. Roth, QA upload
• #778146 – src:tinyscheme: "tinyscheme: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Nicholas Luedtke, upload to DELAYED/5
• #778148 – src:trafficserver: "trafficserver: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  lower severity
• #778151 – src:tuxonice-userui: "tuxonice-userui: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Nicholas Luedtke, upload to DELAYED/5, later sponsor maintainer upload
• #778152 – src:uaputl: "uaputl: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Brett Johnson, upload to DELAYED/5
• #778153 – src:udftools: "udftools: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Jakub Wilk, upload to DELAYED/5
• #778159 – src:uswsusp: "uswsusp: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Andrew James, upload to DELAYED/5
• #778167 – src:weplab: "weplab: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Elizabeth J Dall, QA upload
• #778171 – src:wmmon: "wmmon: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  add patch to build with "-std=gnu89", upload to DELAYED/5
• #778173 – src:wmressel: "wmressel: ftbfs with GCC-5"
  apply patch from Elizabeth J Dall, upload to DELAYED/5
• #780199 – src:redhat-cluster: "redhat-cluster: FTBFS in unstable - error: conflicting types for 'int64_t'"
  apply patch from Michael Tautschnig, upload to DELAYED/2, then rescheduled by maintainer
• #783899 – liblog-any-perl: "liblog-any-perl, liblog-any-adapter-perl: File conflict when being installed together"
  add Breaks/Replaces/Provides (pkg-perl)
• #784844 – libmousex-getopt-perl: "libmousex-getopt-perl: FTBFS: test failures"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #785020 – libmoosex-getopt-perl: "libmoosex-getopt-perl: FTBFS: test failures"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #785158 – libnet-ssleay-perl: "libnet-ssleay-perl: FTBFS: Your vendor has not defined SSLeay macro LIBRESSL_VERSION_NUMBER"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #785229 – sqitch: "sqitch: FTBFS: new warnings"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #785232 – libdist-zilla-plugin-requiresexternal-perl: "libdist-zilla-plugin-requiresexternal-perl: FTBFS: More than one plan found in TAP output"
  make tests non-verbose (pkg-perl)
• #785659 – libdist-zilla-perl: "libdist-zilla-perl: FTBFS: t/plugins/testrelease.t failure"
  make tests non-verbose (pkg-perl)
• #786447 – libcgi-application-plugin-authentication-perl: "libcgi-application-plugin-authentication-perl FTBFS in unstable"
  add patch from Micah Gersten/Ubuntu (pkg-perl)
• #786591 – libtext-quoted-perl: "libtext-quoted-perl: broken by libtext-autoformat-perl changes"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #786667 – libcatalyst-plugin-authentication-credential-openid-perl: "libcatalyst-plugin-authentication-credential-openid-perl: FTBFS: Bareword "use_test_base" not allowed"
  patch Makefile.PL (pkg-perl)
• #788350 – libhttp-proxy-perl: "FTBFS - proxy tests"
  add patch, improved from CPAN RT (pkg-perl)
• #789141 – src:libdancer2-perl: "libdancer2-perl: FTBFS with Plack >= 1.0036: t/classes/Dancer2-Core-Response/new_from.t"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #789669 – src:starlet: "starlet: FTBFS with Plack 1.0036"
  add patch for test compatibility with newer Plack (pkg-perl)
• #789838 – src:starman: "starman: FTBFS with Plack 1.0036"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #791493 – libpadre-plugin-datawalker-perl: "libpadre-plugin-datawalker-perl: missing dependency on padre"
  add missing dependency (pkg-perl)
• #791510 – libcatalyst-authentication-credential-authen-simple-perl: "libcatalyst-authentication-credential-authen-simple-perl: FTBFS: Can't locate Test/Exception.pm in @INC"
  add missing build dependency (pkg-perl)
• #791512 – libcatalyst-plugin-cache-store-fastmmap-perl: "libcatalyst-plugin-cache-store-fastmmap-perl: FTBFS: Can't locate Test/Exception.pm in @INC"
  add missing build dependency (pkg-perl)
• #791709 – libjson-perl: "libjson-perl: FTBFS: Recursive inheritance detected"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #792063 – src:libmath-mpfr-perl: "FTBFS: lngamma_bug.t and test1.t fail"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #792844 – libatombus-perl: "libatombus-perl: ships usr/share/man/man3/README.3pm.gz"
  don't install README manpage (pkg-perl)
• #792845 – libclang-perl: "libclang-perl: ships usr/share/man/man3/README.3pm.gz"
  don't install README POD/manpage (pkg-perl)