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during the last weeks I was quite busy with other things (like DebCamp, DebConf, & vacations), so this is a report covering 4 weeks. – at least I managed to catch up during the last days a bit …

• #639565 – liboauth-dev: "liboauth-dev: please make loose libcurl dependency"
  send a patch to the BTS
• #642165 – src:libmime-lite-html-perl: "libmime-lite-html-perl: FTBFS: test failures"
  update test reference files, upload to DELAYED/2
• #656505 – taxbird: "taxbird: build-dependency on libgeier-dev needs to be versioned"
  propose a different patch in the BTS
• #662606 – php-horde-core: "php-horde-core: FTBFS: "This package contains role "horde" and requires package "horde/Role" to be used""
  add missing build dependency, upload to DELAYED/2
• #664724 – rrdcached: "rrdcached: fails to install, postinst, invoke-rc.d rrdcached start, start-stop-daemon, segfault"
  (re-)create directories needed by daemon in init script, upload to DELAYED/2
• #665018 – src:python-fixtures: "python-fixtures: FTBFS: AttributeError: 'BrokenFixture' object has no attribute 'items'"
  add patch from Emanuele Aina, upload to DELAYED/2
• #666231 – src:byzanz: "byzanz: FTBFS with gtk 3.4"
  sponsor NMU from Etienne Millon, upload to DELAYED/2
• #678108 – httpcomponents-core: "httpcomponents-core: FTBFS twice in a row - broken clean rule"
  call mh_clean as suggested by Niels Thykier, upload to DELAYED/2
• #678859 – libmozjs185-dev: "libmozjs185-dev depends on libffi-dev"
  add missing dependency as proposed by Nicolas Boulenguez, upload to DELAYED/2
• #679669 – src:underscore: "underscore: build-dependency on uglifyjs not satisfiable in wheezy"
  propose a patch in the BTS, maintainer prefers alternative ways of fixing it
• #680423 – trac-wikiprint: "trac-wikiprint: depends on nonexisting python-pil if rebuilt"
  propose a patch in the BTS
• #680424 – trac-odtexport: "trac-odtexport: depends on nonexisting python-pil if rebuilt"
  propose a patch in the BTS, then fixed & closed by maintainer
• #681146 – bitlbee-common: "bitlbee-common: fails to install, purge, and install again"
  propose a patch in the BTS, then upload to DELAYED/2 with maintainer's permission
• #681567 – opennebula-common: "opennebula-common: fails to install, purge, and install again"
  propose a patch in the BTS, then upload to DELAYED/2 with maintainer's permission

I'm here in managua since sunday evening, & by now DebCamp is slowly getting to its end. So here are some of my impressions so far:

• as each year, it's great to have time to work on Debian stuff for longer times undisturbed;
• it helps to have other people around, & be able to ask them something just across the table;
• I'm spending a good chunk of my time with the other guys from the Debian Perl Group, both in my "work time" & in my "free time" – it's just a pleasure;
• most of my work was on the Open Tasks of the Debian Perl Group – preparing our meeting next week, working on bugs, preparing changes to our policy, cleaning up never-uploaded packages in our repos, updating our documentation, doing mass-changes across hundreds of packages, ...;
• hotel, university, food, etc. are all fine & the people are all friendly & helpful;
• yesterday evening we even had "una noche de la poesia" in a nearby bar.

thanks to all organizers & sponsors who make this experience happen!

wheezy is frozen, the outside temperature in INN at midnight is 30°C, & in 3 hours my trip to MGA starts. – & here's the list of RC bugs; this week all but one were sponsored uploads where the BTS already contained a complete debdiff; thanks guys!

• #656421 – powertop: "Please update to libnl3"
  sponsor NMU from Julian Wollrath, upload to DELAYED/2
• #662236 – src:coinor-ipopt: "coinor-ipopt: hardcoded library dependencies on libmumps"
  sponsor NMU from Etienne Millon, upload to DELAYED/2
• #665629 – src:xoo: "xoo: Including individual glib headers no longer supported"
  sponsor NMU from Gregor Jasny, upload to DELAYED/2
• #669379 – abntex: "abntex: unowned file /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R after purge (policy 6.8, 9.1.2)"
  sponsor NMU from Andrew Starr-Bochicchio, upload to DELAYED/2
• #669393 – tetex-brev: "tetex-brev: unowned file /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R after purge (policy 6.8, 9.1.2)"
  sponsor NMU from Andrew Starr-Bochicchio, upload to DELAYED/2
• #677391 – latex-beamer: "latex-beamer: unowned file /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R after purge (policy 6.8, 9.1.2)"
  sponsor NMU from Andrew Starr-Bochicchio, upload to DELAYED/2, then fixed in maintainer upload
• #679135 – src:libsys-cpu-perl: "FTBFS on several architectures: Failed 2/4 subtests"
  mark one test as TODO (i.e. non-fatal) (pkg-perl)