new year, old hobby: trying to fix an RC bug per day, & reporting about it. here's the first episode of 2012:

• #554737 src:gpivtools: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  close manually, already fixed through an NMU
• #623253 libcrypt-ssleay-perl: "libcrypt-ssleay-perl: Crypt::SSLeay aborts hard with HTTPS_VERSION=2"
  adopt package, add patch from CPAN RT (pkg-perl)
• #640688 src:slxfig: "slxfig: FTBFS: configure: error: unable to find the slang library and header file slang.h"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Ilya Barygin, upload to DELAYED/2
• #651906 binutils-m68hc1x: "binutils-m68hc1x: FTBFS format security problems."
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #652179 src:hardinfo: "hardinfo: FTBFS: ld: cannot find -lffi"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Julien Lavergne, upload to DELAYED/2
• #652192 src:wsjt: "wsjt: FTBFS: gfortran: error: portaudio-v19/lib/.libs/libportaudio.a: No such file or directory"
  adjust to multiarch, based on patch from Hideki Yamane, upload to DELAYED/2
• #652252 src:ust: "ust: FTBFS: tracepoint_benchmark.h:27: undefined reference to unlikely'"
  sponsor NMU by Gregor Jasny, upload to DELAYED/2, later rescheduled, then cancelled after maintainer upload
• #652854 libdecodeqr: "libdecodeqr FTBFS in unstable "configure: error: libcv.la not found.""
  add 2 patches from peter green, first upload to DELAYED/2, later to DELAYED/0 because of the FTBFSs on buildds

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)