seems I've neglected both my blog & my RC bug fixing activities in the last months. – anyway, since I still keep track of RC bugs I worked on, I thought I might as well publish the list:
#798023– src:cssutils: "cssutils: FTBFS with Python 3.5"
sponsor NMU by Chris Knadle, upload to DELAYED/2#800303– src:libipc-signal-perl: "libipc-signal-perl: Please migrate a supported debhelper compat level"
bump debhelper compat level, upload to DELAYED/5#808331– src:libpgplot-perl: "libpgplot-perl: needs manual rebuild for Perl 5.22 transition"
manually build+upload packages (pkg-perl)#809056– src:xca: "xca: FTBFS due to CPPFLAGS containing spaces"
sponsor NMU by Chris Knadle, upload to DELAYED/5#810017– src:psi4: "psi4: FTBFS with perl 5.22"
propose a patch#810707– src:libdbd-sqlite3-perl: "libdbd-sqlite3-perl: FTBFS: t/virtual_table/21_perldata_charinfo.t (Wstat: 512 Tests: 4 Failed: 1)"
investigate a bit (pkg-perl)#810710– src:libdata-objectdriver-perl: "libdata-objectdriver-perl: FTBFS: t/02-basic.t (Wstat: 256 Tests: 67 Failed: 1)"
add patch to handle sqlite 3.10 in test suite's version comparison (pkg-perl)#810900– libanyevent-rabbitmq-perl: "libanyevent-rabbitmq-perl: Can't locate object method "bind_exchange" via package "AnyEvent::RabbitMQ::Channel""
add info, versioned close (pkg-perl)#810910– libmath-bigint-gmp-perl: "libmath-bigint-gmp-perl: FTBFS: test failures with newer libmath-bigint-perl"
upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)#810912– libx11-xcb-perl: "libx11-xcb-perl: missing dependency on libxs-object-magic-perl"
update dependencies (pkg-perl)#813420– src:libnet-server-mail-perl: "libnet-server-mail-perl: FTBFS: error: Can't call method "peerhost" on an undefined value at t/starttls.t line 78."
close, as the underlying problem is fixed (pkg-perl)#814730– src:libmath-mpfr-perl: "libmath-mpfr-perl: FTBFS on most architectures"
upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)#815775– zeroc-ice: "Build-Depends on unavailable packages mono-gmcs libmono2.0-cil"
sponsor NMU by Chris Knadle, upload to DELAYED/2#816527– src:libtest-file-contents-perl: "libtest-file-contents-perl: FTBFS with Text::Diff 1.44"
upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)#816638– mhonarc: "mhonarc: fails to run with perl5.22"
propose a patch in the BTS#817528– src:libemail-foldertype-perl: "libemail-foldertype-perl: Removal of debhelper compat 4"
raise debhelper compat level, upload to DELAYED/2#817529– src:libimage-base-bundle-perl: "libimage-base-bundle-perl: Removal of debhelper compat 4"
raise debhelper compat level, upload to DELAYED/2#817530– src:liberror-perl: "liberror-perl: Removal of debhelper compat 4"
raise debhelper compat level, upload to DELAYED/2#817531– src:libimage-info-perl: "libimage-info-perl: Removal of debhelper compat 4"
raise debhelper compat level, upload to DELAYED/2#817647– src:randomplay: "randomplay: Removal of debhelper compat 4"
raise debhelper compat level, upload to DELAYED/2#818924– libjson-webtoken-perl: "libjson-webtoken-perl: missing dependency on libmodule-runtime-perl"
add missing (build) dependency (pkg-perl)#819787– libdbix-class-schema-loader-perl: "libdbix-class-schema-loader-perl: FTBFS: t/10_01sqlite_common.t failure"
close bug, works again with recent sqlite3 (pkg-perl)#821412– libnet-rblclient-perl: "libnet-rblclient-perl: Net::DNS 1.01 breaks Net::RBLClient"
add patch (pkg-perl)#823310– libnanomsg-raw-perl: "libnanomsg-raw-perl: FTBFS: test failures"
add patch from upstream git repo (pkg-perl)#824046– src:libtkx-perl: "libtkx-perl: FTBFS: Tcl error 'Foo at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.22/Tcl.pm line 585.\n' while invoking scalar result call"
first investigation (pkg-perl)#824143– libperinci-sub-normalize-perl: "libperinci-sub-normalize-perl: FTBFS: Can't locate Sah/Schema/Rinci.pm in @INC"
upload new upstream version (pkg-perl)#825366– src:libdist-zilla-plugin-ourpkgversion-perl: "libdist-zilla-plugin-ourpkgversion-perl: FTBFS: Can't locate Path/Class.pm in @INC"
add missing dependency (pkg-perl)#825424– libdist-zilla-plugin-test-podspelling-perl: "libdist-zilla-plugin-test-podspelling-perl: FTBFS: Can't locate Path/Class.pm in @INC"
first triaging, forward upstream, import new release (pkg-perl)#825608– libnet-jifty-perl: "libnet-jifty-perl: FTBFS: t/006-uploads.t failure"
triaging, mark unreproducible (pkg-perl)#825629– src:libgd-perl: "libgd-perl: FTBFS: Could not find gdlib-config in the search path. "
first triaging, forward upstream (pkg-perl)#829064– libparse-debianchangelog-perl: "libparse-debianchangelog-perl: FTBFS with new tidy version"
patch TML template (pkg-perl)#829066– libparse-plainconfig-perl: "FTBFS: Can't modify constant item in scalar assignment"
new upstream release (pkg-perl)#829176– src:libapache-htpasswd-perl: "libapache-htpasswd-perl: FTBFS: dh_clean: Please specify the compatibility level in debian/compat"
add debian/compat, upload to DELAYED/2#829409– src:libhtml-tidy-perl: "libhtml-tidy-perl: FTBFS: Failed 7/21 test programs. 8/69 subtests failed."
apply patches from Simon McVittie (pkg-perl)#829668– libparse-debianchangelog-perl: "libparse-debianchangelog-perl: FTBFS: Failed test 'Output of dpkg_str equal to output of dpkg-parsechangelog'"
add patch for compatibility with new dpkg (pkg-perl)#829746– src:license-reconcile: "license-reconcile: FTBFS: Failed 7/30 test programs. 11/180 subtests failed."
versioned close, already fixed in latest upload (pkg-perl)#830275– src:libgravatar-url-perl: "libgravatar-url-perl: accesses the internet during build"
skip test which needs internet access (pkg-perl)#830324– src:libhttp-async-perl: "libhttp-async-perl: accesses the internet during build"
add patch to skip tests with DNS queries (pkg-perl)#830354– src:libhttp-proxy-perl: "libhttp-proxy-perl: accesses the internet during build"
skip tests which need internet access (pkg-perl)#830355– src:libanyevent-http-perl: "libanyevent-http-perl: accesses the internet during build"
skip tests which need internet access (pkg-perl)#830356– src:libhttp-oai-perl: "libhttp-oai-perl: accesses the internet during build"
add patch to skip tests with DNS queries (pkg-perl)#830476– src:libpoe-component-client-http-perl: "libpoe-component-client-http-perl: accesses the internet during build"
update existing patch (pkg-perl)#831233– src:libmongodb-perl: "libmongodb-perl: build hangs with sbuild and libeatmydata"
lower severity (pkg-perl)#832361– src:libmousex-getopt-perl: "libmousex-getopt-perl: FTBFS: Failed 2/22 test programs. 2/356 subtests failed."
upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
