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here comes my usual report about my work on RC bugs. this time a bit more "added a comment" or "sent a patch" but also some uploads.

• #616203 – src:coinor-cgl: "coinor-cgl: replace doxygen and texlive-* build dependencies with doxygen-latex"
  update build dependencies, upload to DELAYED/2
• #616204 – src:coinor-dylp: "coinor-dylp: replace doxygen and texlive-* build dependencies with doxygen-latex"
  update build dependencies, upload to DELAYED/2
• #636509 – src:liboil: "liboil: FTBFS on i386: segmentation fault in testsuite"
  manually closing, still unreproducible
• #636614 – loop-aes-utils: "loop-aes-utils: mount/umount option '--no-canonicalize' support from util-linux for fuse"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Colin Watson, QA upload
• #643084 – src:cutter-testing-framework: "cutter-testing-framework: FTBFS: dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b cutter-testing-framework-1.1.7 gave error exit status 2"
  send a patch to the BTS, still FTBFS later; later NMUd by a fellow DD
• #643088 – src:dia-newcanvas: "dia-newcanvas: FTBFS: dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b dia-newcanvas-0.6.10 gave error exit status 2"
  send a patch to the BTS, still FTBFS later
• #648892 – gnome-osd: "TypeError: integer argument expected, got float"
  add patch from Thibaut Girka, upload to DELAYED/2
• #650228 – src:gedit-valencia-plugin: "FTBFS: GModule-2.0.gir:46.7-46.66: error: unknown child element `function' in `record'"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Colin Watson, upload to DELAYED/2
• #651865 – python-gnutls: "python-gnutls: gnutls.library.functions fails with libgnutls28-3.0.8-2"
  send patch with upstream changes to the BTS
• #652244 – src:basic256: "basic256: FTBFS: dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b basic256-0.9.6.66 gave error exit status 2"
  add patch to clean generated files, upload to DELAYED/2, then rescheduled to 0-day with maintainer's permission
• #657410 – libcheese-dev: "libcheese-dev: fails to upgrade from squeeze - trying to overwrite ..."
  send a patch to the BTS, doesn't build due to #657942

thanks to the Paris BSP & other activities we're seeing a nice decline in RC bugs. here are my recent contributions:

• #554752 – src:gtklp: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  add patch from Hideki Yamane, upload to DELAYED/2
• #640613 – src:jaminid: "jaminid: FTBFS: xargs: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/javac: No such file or directory"
  build-depend on default-jdk and set JAVA_HOME in debian/rules accordingly, upload to DELAYED/2
• #640630 – src:policycoreutils: "policycoreutils: FTBFS: chmod: cannot access `/build/policycoreutils-r6ObWS/policycoreutils-2.0.82/debian/policycoreutils/etc/init.d/policycoreutils': No such file or directory"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / Mitsuya Shibata, upload to DELAYED/4
• #640633 – src:tunnelx: "tunnelx: FTBFS: xargs: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/javac: No such file or directory"
  build-depend on default-jdk and set JAVA_HOME in debian/rules accordingly, upload to DELAYED/2
• #642686 – src:javamorph: "javamorph: FTBFS: /bin/sh: 1: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/javac: not found"
  build-depend on default-jdk and set JAVA in Makefile accordingly, upload to DELAYED/2
• #645493 – src:postler: "Will FTBFS with libindicate 0.6"
  apply patch from Evgeni Golov, upload to DELAYED/2
• #646388 – speech-dispatcher: "FTBFS due to locally changed files without patch"
  update autotools handling, partly taken from Ubuntu / Luke Yelavich, upload to DELAYED/2
• #646647 – src:latex-cjk-chinese-arphic: "latex-cjk-chinese-arphic: FTBFS: The requested file, gbsn00lp.ttf, does not exist"
  apply (modified) patch from Hideki Yamane, upload to DELAYED/2
• #652222 – src:sensors-applet: "sensors-applet: FTBFS: Could not parse DTD http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf-1.0/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd"
  add patch to use local DTD, upload to DELAYED/2
• #652758 – src:policycoreutils: "policycoreutils: FTBFS: cc: error: /usr/lib/libsepol.a: No such file or directory"
  multiarchify, based on patch by Hideki Yamane, upload to DELAYED/4
• #658054 – instead: "Can not upgrade package instead, because new package instead-data try rewrite files from old package instead."
  add a comment to the BTS

I was at FOSDEM over the last weekend, so here's my report for two weeks now:

• #445842 – rmagic: "rmagic: fails with current libgd"
  add patch from Andreas Beckmann, upload to DELAYED/2
• #610332 – aiccu: "/etc/pm/sleep.d/60aiccu hook may cause unacceptable resume delays"
  improve pm-utils hook script, upload to DELAYED/2, then moved to 0-day on maintainer's request
• #628305 – src:gpa: "gpa: FTBFS: checking LIBASSUAN API version... does not match. want=1 got=2."
  apply upstream patch, upload to DELAYED/2
• #629693 – src:spim: "spim: FTBFS: ../CPU/spim-utils.c:117:7: error: invalid use of void expression"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Matthias Klose, upload to DELAYED/2
• #629747 – src:fso-abyss: "fso-abyss: FTBFS: build-dependency not installable: libvala-dev (>= 0.8.1)"
  switch to vala-0.10, inspired by the patch from Ubuntu / Barry Warsaw, upload to DELAYED/2
• #629782 – src:fso-misc-vapi: "fso-misc-vapi: FTBFS: build-dependency not installable: libvala-dev"
  switch to vala-0.10, inspired by the patch from Ubuntu / Barry Warsaw, upload to DELAYED/2
• #635550 – pmw: "pmw: piuparts: fails to install (update-gsfontmap again)"
  send patch to the BTS, fixed by maintainer later
• #642375 – cardstories: "cardstories: ftbfs on i386 due to test value > sys.maxint"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Barry Warsaw, upload to DELAYED/3
• #642566 – python-saga: "python-saga: doesn't depend on python"
  apply missing part of Jakub Wilk's patch, upload to DELAYED/2, later integrated in maintainer upload
• #650800 – src:hiredis: "hiredis: FTBFS on mipsel: rm: cannot remove `/tmp/redis.sock': No such file or directory"
  sponsor maintainer upload
• #652182 – src:cardstories: "cardstories: FTBFS: TypeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '__getitem__'"
  drop "X-Python-Version: all", upload to DELAYED/3
• #652231 – src:brickos: "brickos: FTBFS: semop(2): encountered an error: Invalid argument"
  close as unreproducible
• #656153 – jspwiki: "jspwiki: postinst failure: chown: invalid user: `tomcat6'"
  add thoughts in the BTS
• #656178 – mandos: "mandos FTBFS on buildds"
  add build dependency and set locale for manpage building, upload to DELAYED/2
• #657478 – biomaj-watcher: "biomaj-watcher: doesn't use invoke-rc.d"
  use invoke-rc.d in postinst (and quote variable in config), upload to DELAYED/2, later cancelled on maintainer's request
• #657746 – prolix: "prolix: under- and wrongly-documented, not working interactively at all"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl)
• #658394 – src:libio-socket-socks-perl: "libio-socket-socks-perl: FTBFS - test failures without network (was: [Bug 924169] [NEW] libio-socket-socks-perl fails to build without a network connection)"
  upload package prepared by Jonathan Yu (pkg-perl)