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here's the short overview about my activities around release-critical bugs for the last week:

• #623578 – gadfly: "gadfly: build wrong version of the packaging during a binNMU"
  fix patch after feedback from Jakub Wilk, re-upload to DELAYED/2
• #675971 – mumble: "Cannot communicate with the vast majority of Mumble servers due to lack of required baseline codec"
  apply patch from Chris Knadle, upload to DELAYED/2 after RT reply in #691098
• #689779 – pptpd: "pptpd: modifies conffiles during squeeze2wheezy upgrade (policy 10.7.3): /etc/pptpd.conf, /etc/init.d/pptpd, /etc/ppp/pptpd-options"
  bug triaging, NMUd by a fellow DD
• #689946 – lat: "lat: Cannot open assembly '/usr/lib/lat/lat.exe': No such file or directory."
  send a patch to the BTS, uploaded by maintainer
• #690147 – cyrus-common-2.2: "cyrus-common-2.2: missing copyright file after upgrade from squeeze"
  send a patch to the BTS, uploaded by maintainer
• #690148 – gcc-mingw32: "gcc-mingw32: missing copyright file after upgrade from squeeze"
  send a patch to the BTS, already fixed by maintainer the same way
• #690150 – libphone-ui-dev: "libphone-ui-dev: missing copyright file after upgrade from squeeze"
  send a patch to the BTS, uploaded by maintainer
• #690947 – lat: "lat: Missing dependency on libmono-corlib2.0-cil"
  merge with #689946 after a bit triaging

as zack has mentioned earlier today, the count of RC bugs is falling. & the release team is again proposing RC buggy packages for removal from testing.

these were my RC bug related activities during the last week:

• #623578 – gadfly: "gadfly: build wrong version of the packaging during a binNMU"
  apply patch from Guillem Jover, upload to DELAYED/2
• #675971 – mumble: "Cannot communicate with the vast majority of Mumble servers due to lack of required baseline codec"
  file pre-approval unblock request #691098
• #677943 – munin: "/etc/apache2/conf.d/munin removed on upgrade"
  send a patch to the BTS
• #685632 – liquidsoap: "liquidsoap: missing versioned depend on libcamomile-ocaml-data"
  make dependency versioned, upload to DELAYED/2
• #688891 – psad: "psad: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/psad/psad.conf"
  send a patch to the BTS
• #689537 – pdnsd: "pdnsd: deletes conffiles on package removal (policy 10.7.3): /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/002_NetMan_pdnsd"
  include patch from Stuart Prescott, do a QA upload
• #689683 – prelude-manager: "prelude-manager: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/prelude-manager/prelude-manager.conf"
  fix conffile handling, upload to DELAYED/2
• #690368 – pdnsd: "pdnsd: postinst overwrites admin changes to /etc/default/pdnsd"
  fix conffile handling, do a QA upload
• #691015 – conserver-client: "conserver-client: fails to upgrade from testing: Can't locate Tie/Hash/NamedCapture.pm in @INC"
  propose a patch to fix the mistake in my NMU

these are the RC bugs I've worked on during the last week:

• #575087 – wbar: "On a default installation wbar will fail due dot.wbar"
  add comments to the bug report, severity lowered later by maintainer
• #652638 – libuuid-perl: "libuuid-perl: conflict with older doc-base versions to fix upgrade problems"
  add Conflicts (pkg-perl)
• #656505 – taxbird: "taxbird: build-dependency on libgeier-dev needs to be versioned"
  fix versioned build/runtime dependencies, upload to DELAYED/2
• #657465 – conserver-client: "conserver-client: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user"
  fix configuration file handling, upload to DELAYED/2
• #688206 – pure-ftpd-common: "pure-ftpd-common: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/default/pure-ftpd-common"
  fix configuration file handling, upload to DELAYED/2
• #688223 – emacspeak: "emacspeak: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/emacspeak.conf"
  fix configuration file handling, QA upload
• #688231 – acgvision-agent: "acgvision-agent: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/acgvision/agent.ini"
  add comments, and file #690170 while we're there
• #688796 – src:libkdtree++: "libkdtree++: incomplete debian/copyright"
  sponsor maintainer upload
• #688891 – psad: "psad: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/psad/psad.conf"
  add thoughts and questions to bug report
• #689120 – gstreamer0.10-gconf: "gstreamer0.10-gconf: does not really provide sinks and sources"
  send a patch to the BTS
• #690355 – libfile-data-perl: "libfile-data-perl: (virtually) empty binary package"
  prepare a patch (pkg-perl)

this week I focussed mostly on bugs where conffiles are modified in maintainer scripts. thanks to the recipe in debconf-devel(7) many cases are not so hard to solve.

• #632604 – src:libatomic-ops: "libatomic-ops: FTBFS on i386"
  prepare a patch for testing-proposed-updates, upload after ack from maintainer and release team
• #687858 – tasksel-data: "tasksel-data: copyright file missing after upgrade (policy 12.5)"
  add info and tag in BTS
• #687944 – mason: "mason: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/masonrc"
  fix configuration file handling, upload to DELAYED/2
• #688196 – mimedefang: "mimedefang: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/default/mimedefang"
  fix configuration file handling, upload to DELAYED/2, then included in maintainer upload
• #688200 – fprobe: "fprobe: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/default/fprobe"
  fix configuration file handling, upload to DELAYED/2
• #688205 – mono-xsp2: "mono-xsp2: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/default/mono-xsp2"
  fix configuration file handling, upload to DELAYED/2, rescheduled to 0-day with maintainer's permission
• #688375 – ntlmaps: "ntlmaps: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/ntlmaps/server.cfg"
  fix configuration file handling, upload to DELAYED/2
• #688378 – gom: "gom: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/default/gom"
  fix configuration file handling, upload to DELAYED/2
• #688499 – netmrg: "netmrg: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/netmrg/netmrg.xml"
  install only template configuration file, upload to DELAYED/2
• #688565 – mono-apache-server2,mono-apache-server4: "mono-apache-server2, mono-apache-server4: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/default/mono-apache-server[24]"
  fix configuration file handling, upload to DELAYED/2, rescheduled to 0-day with maintainer's permission
• #688736 – w3c-linkchecker: "w3c-linkchecker: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/w3c/checklink.conf"
  remove configuration file on purge (pkg-perl)

today was again the lange nacht der museen, & again I used the opportunity to visit some sites in innsbruck:

1. galerie im taxispalais – galerie des landes tirol: contemporary austrian paintings, some nice, & a good guided tour
2. kunstraum innsbruck: the secret diary of an affair ~1970 in texts & photos, weird but impressive
3. fo.ku.s foto kunst stadtforum: a few boring photos
4. fotoforum west: some photos ..., & I didn't see a trace of the announced guided tour
5. stadtarchiv/stadtmuseum: documentary movies about innsbruck (1934-1976), not a single one without schützen & blasmusik no matter if during the austro fascist era, national socialism, or the second republic
6. tiroler landesmuseum/ferdinandeum: not so impressive paintings & a nice reading of a local novelist, & free drinks on the balcony