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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)

"lange nacht der museen" – a warm late-summer evening, & it's amazing how many galleries, exhibition rooms, etc. innsbruck has.

a quick list of my tour (all places in the city center, & just a few minutes away from each other by bike). as usual, the quality was mixed.

1. kunstpavillon der tiroler künstlerschaft: no exhibition, & the projector for the movie wasn't ready yet
2. neue galerie der tiroler künstlerschaft: weird something (the confusing way)
3. fo.ku.s foto kunst stadtforum: a few boring photos
4. galerie 22a: great paintings from carmen m selma
5. galerie im taxispalais – galerie des landes tirol: some nice drawings, & a funny video
6. kunstraum innsbruck: weird installation & video (but somewhat funny)

• gösser's: delicious zwickl (wait – that's not art in the strict sense, & not included in the "long night" ticket)

7. fotoforum west: a projected photo blog
8. galerie nothburga: some nice mini-sculptures, & some paintings, not my style
9. artdepot – kommunikationszentrum für kunst und kultur: a few abstract (?) paintings, not my style
10. galerie kass: a few paintings, not my style
11. <some garden across the street from the last gallery>: music & fashion, if I understood it correctly
12. aut. architektur und tirol: installations, in the wider sense; with an interesting tour

ps: the only places I knew beforehand were 6, ●, & 7.