Peter Green's talk very clear and well received.

Now for (almost) the last of the day - Steve McIntyre (93sam / Sledge) for his annual presentation on the state of UEFI

Good talk on what it means to transfer LARGE data sets in academia and the downfalls of networking.

Peter Green is about to give a talk on Raspbian - these talks filling in for the missing talk mentioned earlier

Raspbian project - What is it, why it was needed, who is behind it etc.

Lots of typing around me and IRC on #debconf-cambridge

this week(end) I was more in the "RC bug fix flow" than in the last weeks, & here are the results:

• #665518 src:clipit: "clipit: Including individual glib headers no longer supported"
  add patch from Michael Biebl, upload to DELAYED/2 (NMU originally prepared by Sebastian Ramacher)
• #701406 src:nagios-plugins: "nagios-plugins: ftbfs with eglibc-2.17"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Robie Basak, upload to DELAYED/2, then cancelled on maintainer's request, who uploaded the fixed package himself
• #707393 src:gorm.app: "gorm.app: FTBFS: GormCore/./obj/libGormCore.so: undefined reference to class_pose_as'"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Julian Taylor, upload to DELAYED/2
• #710768 ganglia-webfrontend: "ganglia-webfrontend: please update libgd dependencies"
  drop dependency on libgd2*, upload to DELAYED/2
• #711800 src:python-poppler: "python-poppler: FTBFS: /usr/bin/make: unrecognized option '--prefix --exec-prefix --includes --libs --cflags --ldflags --extension-suffix --help --configdir'"
  apply changes from Ubuntu / Matthias Klose, upload to DELAYED/2
• #713204 src:voms-api-java: "voms-api-java: FTBFS: cp: cannot stat 'target/site/javadoc/apidocs': No such file or directory"
  upload NMU with BouncyCastle patch prepared by Emmanuel Bourg to DELAYED/2
• #713360 src:regina-normal: "regina-normal: FTBFS: CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND. PYTHON_LIBRARY"
  apply improved patch from Peter Green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #713450 src:oregano: "oregano: FTBFS: ld: sheet/libsheet.a(grid.o): undefined reference to symbol 'floor@@GLIBC_2.2.5'"
  add patch from Petter Reinholdtsen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #713627 src:rox: "rox: FTBFS: ld: support.o: undefined reference to symbol 'floor@@GLIBC_2.2.5'"
  add patch to link against math lib, upload to DELAYED/2
• #713649 src:gdis: "gdis: FTBFS: gdis.h:269:18: fatal error: glib.h: No such file or directory"
  propose a patch

I note that the Raspberry Pi folks are recommending the Raspbian fork of Debian for the Pi. This is the hard float port to ARM version 6 undertaken by Mike Thompson and Peter Green (who is also a Debian developer).

That being said, though, they have also released an armel copy that is fully binary compatible with Debian Wheezy for use with software that can't readily be rebuilt e.g. Oracle Java. This is understood to be slower than Raspbian but otherwise contains identical software.

The changes made by the Raspberry Pi folks are fairly minimalist: /opt contains some of the graphics example code which takes advantage of the non-free GPU and the raspi-config script under /usr/bin which allows initial configuration at first boot.

The /etc/apt/get/sources.list refers solely to Debian repositories and the software supplied by the Raspberry Pi project can be readily updated to latest Debian Wheezy. All in all a nice way to have a silent Debian machine in a tiny case.

while working on RC bugs, I noticed that some DDs sent patches to the BTS in the last weeks (yeah!) but did not upload the fixes in NMUs. short request: could you please either state the reason for not uploading, or just go ahead and dput/dupload the fixed packages?

& here's my list:

• #587698 ipcheck: "ipcheck: on python2.6: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'close'"
  sponsor NMU by Miguel de Val-Borro, upload to DELAYED/2
• #633843 python-sqlobject: "python-sqlobject: autocommit issue with psycopg2"
  add upstream patch, upload to DELAYED/2
• #639068 src:python-glpk: "python-glpk: FTBFS: unsatisfiable build-dependency: libglpk-dev (< 4.44) but 4.45-1 is to be installed"
  close-by-forcemerge (duplicate)
• #651320 src:ganglia: "FTBFS: aborting due to unexpected upstream changes"
  fix handling of config. guess,sub and patches, upload to DELAYED/2
• #651625 src:gnash: "gnash: FTBFS (npapi/plugin.cpp)"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #651763 rutilt: "rutilt FTFBS in sid include/WE17Driver.h:107:31: error: reference 'm_Data' cannot be declared 'mutable' [-fpermissive]"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Colin Watson, upload to DELAYED/2
• #654899 libarchive-zip-perl: "libarchive-zip-perl: jh_manifest from javahelper creates corrupt archives (jars)"
  upload package with patches from Niko Tyni (pkg-perl)
• #655825 src:libmojomojo-perl: "libmojomojo-perl: FTBFS: tests failed"
  add patch to use Digest::SHA (pkg-perl)

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

a rather lazy bugsquashing week but with a little cheating a managed to get at at least 7 RC bugs:

• #642738 src:styx: "styx: FTBFS: ./config.status: 1358: ./config.status: gawk: not found"
  add missing build dependency, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643471 src:lbreakout2: "lbreakout2: FTBFS: server.c:1093:16: error: 'LC_ALL' undeclared (first use in this function)"
  add a patch to include locale.h, upload to DELAYED/2
• #648842 src:libpgplot-perl: "libpgplot-perl: needs to be rebuilt against perl 5.14"
  do a versioned close, Carlo Segre has manually rebuilt the package (pkg-perl)
• #650598 src:pygpiv: "pygpiv: /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h:34:24: fatal error: glibconfig.h: No such file or directory"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / Daniel Polehn, Michael Terry, upload to DELAYED/2
• #651231 src:xymon: "FTBFS: PCRE not found"
  add (extended) patch from from Ubuntu / Steve Langasek, upload to DELAYED/5, later rescheduled to 0-day by maintainer
• #651907 src:ido: "ido FTBFS uses G_CONST_RETURN with G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #652446 p7zip: "p7zip FTBFS with multiarch libwxgtk2.8-dev"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2

thanks to my vacations starting I had a bit more time this week for working on RC bugs. here's the usual list; again: thanks to all the restless patch providers!

• #555880 src:overgod: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Julian Taylor, upload to DELAYED/2
• #556500 src:transfermii: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Andreas Moog, upload to DELAYED/2
• #556715 src:xoo: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Mahyuddin Susanto, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625117 src:mm3d: "mm3d: FTBFS: cmdmgr.cc:27:47: error: 'NULL' was not declared in this scope"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625404 pidgin-sipe: "pidgin-sipe: ftbfs with gcc-4.6 -Werror"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625409 uisp: "uisp: ftbfs with gcc-4.6 -Werror"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #630638 pidgin-sipe: "pidgin-sipe: FTBFS with pdigin 2.8.0-1 in unstable"
  add patch from archlinux, upload to DELAYED/2
• #640319 src:jed: "jed: FTBFS: gcc-4.6.real: error: unrecognized option '-V'"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643363 src:clp: "clp: FTBFS: CbcOrClpParam.cpp:1078:43: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Wolfram Sang, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643364 src:coinor-cbc: "coinor-cbc: FTBFS: ../../Clp/src/CbcOrClpParam.cpp:1078:43: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Wolfram Sang, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643365 src:coinor-symphony: "coinor-symphony: FTBFS: Master/main.c:674:19: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add a patch to add a format argument, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643390 src:glabels: "glabels: FTBFS: plessey.c:151:9: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add a patch to add a format argument, QA upload
• #643405 src:hdate-applet: "hdate-applet: FTBFS: callbacks.c:360:2: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  do a versioned close, the bug is fixed by the previous NMU
• #643409 src:ippl: "ippl: FTBFS: log.c:150:5: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add a patch to add format arguments, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643452 src:palp: "palp: FTBFS: Subpoly.c:870:3: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add a patch to add format arguments, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643468 src:rubrica: "rubrica: FTBFS: app.c:1831:8: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add a patch to add format arguments, upload to DELAYED/2
• #651581 sac: "sac ftbfs on armel and armhf. struct user conflicts with system header"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2, later uploaded by maintainer
• #652229 src:libhttp-lrdd-perl: "libhttp-lrdd-perl: FTBFS: Failed 1/2 test programs. 1/2 subtests failed."
  upload new upstream release, package prepared by Florian Schlichting (pkg-perl)
• #652749 src:libmodule-install-xsutil-perl: "libmodule-install-xsutil-perl: FTBFS: unsatisfiable build-dependency: libextutils-parsexs-perl (>= 2.210000) (versioned dep on a virtual pkg?)"
  swap build dependencies (pkg-perl)
• #652760 src:libextutils-xspp-perl: "libextutils-xspp-perl: FTBFS: unsatisfiable build-dependency: libextutils-parsexs-perl (>= 2.220200) (versioned dep on a virtual pkg?)"
  swap build dependencies (pkg-perl)
• #652774 src:libmodule-build-perl: "libmodule-build-perl: FTBFS: unsatisfiable build-dependencies (purely virtual?): libextutils-cbuilder-perl (>= 0.2700), libextutils-parsexs-perl (>= 2.210000)"
  swap build dependencies (pkg-perl)

here's my RCBW report for this week. again, nothing spectacular, mostly uploading packages where patches were already in the BTS. thanks to all the patch creators and forwarders!

• #553968 src:blktrace: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Ilya Barygin, upload to DELAYED/2
• #554408 src:fuse-umfuse-iso9660: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  add patch from Luk Claes, upload to DELAYED/2
• #554755 src:gtodo: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  add patch from Bart Martens, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625319 chiark-tcl: "chiark-tcl: ftbfs with gcc-4.6 -Werror"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625327 filtergen: "filtergen: ftbfs with gcc-4.6 -Werror"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625343 gltron: "gltron: ftbfs with gcc-4.6 -Werror"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #642709 src:ctsim: "ctsim: FTBFS: /bin/sh: 0: Can't open ./config.status"
  fix debian/rules (config. guess,sub handling and duplicate make clean), upload to DELAYED/2
• #643403 src:gtodo: "gtodo: FTBFS: callback.c:133:4: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Bart Martens, upload to DELAYED/2

a quiet RCBW week, here's the usual status report:

• #615766 predict: "predict: ftbfs with gold or ld --no-add-needed"
  add patch from Ubuntu / John T. Nogatch, upload to DELAYED/2
• #619274 myspell-gv: "myspell-gv: Remove unconditional call to soon to disappear 'update-openoffice-dicts'"
  drop debian/myspell-gv.post inst,rm , upload to DELAYED/2
• #624441 scsitools: "rescan-scsi-bus call nonexistent usleep command"
  add patch based on suggestion from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #625102 src:aplus-fsf: "aplus-fsf: FTBFS: ../MSTypes/MSTypeData.H:54:23: error: declaration of 'operator new' as non-function"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Andreas Moog, upload to DELAYED/2
• #640444 src:gtkhtml3.14: "gtkhtml3.14: FTBFS: gtkhtml.c:1541: undefined reference to sqrt'"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #640591 smbind: "smbind: installation fails: /var/lib/dpkg/info/smbind.postinst: 42: local: not in a function"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2, later rescheduled to DELAYED/0 at maintainer's request
• #644091 src:genus2reduction: "genus2reduction: Unversioned build-dependency on libpari-dev"
  make build dependency versioned, upload to DELAYED/2
• #651537 src:libio-socket-inet6-perl: "libio-socket-inet6-perl: FTBFS: Test failures"
  add build dependency and check before testing (pkg-perl)

after the rather intensive last week, this week was more business as usual. here's the list:

• #565064 src:xshisen: "xshisen: ftbfs with gcc-4.5 and gcc-4.6"
  add patch inspired by patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #608927 src:klog: "FTBFS with gold / ld --no-add-needed"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Felix Geyer, upload to DELAYED/2
• #613387 libbio-das-lite-perl: "libbio-das-lite-perl: FTBFS: test failures"
  disable tests that need internet access, upload to DELAYED/2
• #618063 src:fvwm: "fvwm: FTBFS: libfontconfig.so.1: could not read symbols: Invalid operation"
  close as unreproducible locally and on Grid'5000
• #618099 src:kwave: "kwave: FTBFS: KwaveFileDialog.cpp:37:66: error: call of overloaded 'QString(int)' is ambiguous"
  close as unreproducible locally and on Grid'5000
• #618231 src:wmnut: "wmnut: FTBFS: x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc: @LIBSSL_LDFLAGS@: No such file or directory"
  close as unreproducible locally and on Grid'5000
• #622068 src:asio: "asio: FTBFS: ./../include/asio/ssl/detail/openssl_context_service.hpp:73:20: error: '::SSLv2_method' has not been declared"
  apply patch from Cristian Greco, upload to DELAYED/2
• #624203 vpnc: "more verbose iproute makes vpnc fail connecting"
  sponsor NMU prepared by Florian Schlichting
• #639032 src:gtklp: "gtklp: FTBFS: gtklp.h:99:1: error: unknown type name 'ppd_file_t'"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Colin Watson, upload to DELAYED/2
• #644113 gtklp: "gtklp: FTBFS format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #646488 src:wmtemp: "wmtemp: FTBFS: dockapp.c:52:16: error: variable 'stat' set but not used [-Werror=unused-but-set-variable]"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #646503 src:xmlroff: "xmlroff: FTBFS: fo-area-page.c:907:12: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #646559 gnome-alsamixer: "gnome-alsamixer: Latest version 0.9.7~cvs.20060916.ds.1-2.1 is unusable (segmentation fault)."
  sponsor maintainer upload

as expected this week was characterised by fixing bugs around the perl 5.14 transition. besides that I've also uploaded a couple of NMUs with patches kindly provided in the BTS by some tireless bug fixers.

• #554047 src:cellwriter: "FTBFS with binutils-gold"
  add patch from Ubuntu / Mahyuddin Susanto, upload to DELAYED/2
• #628500 src:prima: "prima: FTBFS with perl 5.14: error: 'sv_undef' undeclared"
  patch to change functions that rely on removed PERL_POLLUTE, upload to DELAYED/2 (perl-5.14)
• #629284 src:libpod-constants-perl: "libpod-constants-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: Can't use string [...] as an ARRAY ref"
  patch Makefile.PL (older and newer EUMM) (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #636268 src:libdbix-class-timestamp-perl: "libdbix-class-timestamp-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: test failures"
  upload new upstream release (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #636271 src:libtest-www-declare-perl: "libtest-www-declare-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: tests fail"
  new patch to work with perl 5.14 regexp (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #636517 src:libregexp-optimizer-perl: "libregexp-optimizer-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: test failures"
  new patch to work with perl 5.14 regexp (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #636520 src:libtest-html-content-perl: "libtest-html-content-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: tests fail"
  send a patch to the BTS, uploaded by the maintainer (perl-5.14)
• #636521 src:libtest-log4perl-perl: "libtest-log4perl-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: tests fail"
  new patch to work with perl 5.14 regexp (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #636522 src:libtest-simpleunit-perl: "libtest-simpleunit-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: tests fail"
  new patch to work with perl 5.14 regexp (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #643040 src:abcm2ps: "abcm2ps: FTBFS: dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b abcm2ps-5.9.22 gave error exit status 2"
  backup/restore Makefile in debian/rules, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643359 src:blktool: "blktool: FTBFS: util.c:31:3: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643362 src:cellwriter: "cellwriter: FTBFS: src/statusicon.c:215:17: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643369 src:crack-attack: "crack-attack: FTBFS: callbacks.cxx:116:38: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643370 src:d52: "d52: FTBFS: d52pass2.c:935:3: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643374 src:dis51: "dis51: FTBFS: pass2.c:186:4: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643375 src:ebview: "ebview: FTBFS: dialog.c:72:6: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643383 src:gfan: "gfan: FTBFS: application.cpp:548:22: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643384 src:gfccore: "gfccore: FTBFS: error.cc:116:52: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643413 src:jack-tools: "jack-tools: FTBFS: jack.dl.c:20:3: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from M nica Ram rez Arceda, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643417 src:libccscript3: "libccscript3: FTBFS: compiler.cpp:1147:38: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Ilya Barygin, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643448 src:nvramtool: "nvramtool: FTBFS: hexdump.c:94:7: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #643457 src:pidgin-librvp: "pidgin-librvp: FTBFS: rvp.c:4271:3: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add patch from Eric Alexander, upload to DELAYED/2
• #646286 src:genders: "genders: FTBFS: crti.o: No such file or directory"
  send a patch to the BTS, uploaded by the maintainer (perl-5.14)
• #646297 src:spread: "spread: FTBFS: Spread.xs:463:4: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]"
  add format argument, do a QA upload (perl-5.14)
• #648858 src:libdbd-oracle-perl: "libdbd-oracle-perl: needs to be rebuilt against perl 5.14"
  manually rebuild against perl 5.14 (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #649055 libgnome2-gconf-perl: "libgnome2-gconf-perl: FTBFS (Failed 1/1 test programs. 0/0 subtests failed)"
  add patch from Colin Watson (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #649058 libdata-alias-perl: "libdata-alias-perl: FTBFS on mips powerpc s390 sparc"
  add patch from Niko Tyni (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)
• #649180 src:libmouse-perl: "libmouse-perl: swap libextutils-parsexs-perl/perl dep"
  upload fixed package prepared by Alessandro Ghedini (pkg-perl, perl-5.14)

& another mix of various RC bug fixes: applying patches from others, fixing stuff myself, closing obsolete bugs:

• #634650 src:xplanet: "xplanet: Please Build-Depends on libjpeg-dev, not libjpeg62-dev"
  do as the bug report requests, upload to DELAYED/2
• #637936 libtunepimp: "FTBFS: fatal error: curl/types.h: No such file or directory"
  add patch from peter green, upload to DELAYED/2
• #639152 src:csmash: "csmash: Please Build-Depends on libjpeg-dev, not libjpeg62-dev"
  fix build-deps, upload to DELAYED/2
• #639176 src:fdm: "fdm: FTBFS: unsatisfiable build-dependency: tdb-dev (>= 1.1.1~svn26294-1.1) (versioned dep on a virtual pkg?)"
  fix build-deps, upload to DELAYED/2, later sponsor maintainer upload
• #640588 roundup: "roundup: package purge (after dependencies removal) fails"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #640597 ekeyd: "ekeyd: installation fails"
  fix postinst (check for existence of init script), upload to DELAYED/2
• #640599 anon-proxy: "anon-proxy: installation fails: chown: cannot access /var/run/anon-proxy': No such file or directory"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / Daniel T Chen, upload to DELAYED/2
• #642689 src:mailsync: "mailsync: FTBFS: configure: error: a working c-client installation is required for building mailsync"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / Ilya Barygin, upload to DELAYED/2
• #642721 src:libcaca: "libcaca: FTBFS: make[4]: *** [refman.pdf] Error 1"
  unreproducible with the newest version neither locally nor on Grid'5000, do a versioned close
• #642793 src:tkgate: "tkgate: FTBFS: ERROR: Unable to find library X11"
  apply patch from Ubuntu / Andreas Moog, QA upload
• #647120 src:libgeo-proj4-perl: "libgeo-proj4-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: CCFLAGS should include $Config ccflags "
  add patch from Dominic Hargreaves, upload to DELAYED/2

in somehow related news: the perl 5.14 transition has begun. that also means that the severity of some bug reports was raised, & maybe we'll see some new ones. but it also means these bugs are easier to fix now that perl 5.14 is in unstable.

a short update on my RC-bug squashing activities:

• #526210 scim-kmfl-imengine: "FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include"
  apply patch from the BTS, upload to DELAYED/2
• #531715 gcin: "FTBFS with GCC 4.4: missing #include"
  add comment to BTS, later NMU'd by zack
• #534600 spatialindex: "spatialindex: FTBFS with GCC 4.4"
  apply patch from the BTS, upload to DELAYED/2
• #539543 hubbub: "FTBFS with GCC 4.4: 'cptr' may be used uninitialized"
  apply patch from the BTS, upload to DELAYED/2
• #546386 fam: "FTBFS with gcc4.4"
  apply patch from the BTS, upload to DELAYED/2
• #549223 chuck: "fails to build with gcc-4.4/newer eglibc"
  apply patch from the BTS, upload to DELAYED/2
• #550115 gbgoffice: "FTBFS: invalid const conversion"
  apply patch from the BTS, upload to DELAYED/2
• #553706 glob2: "FTBFS with GCC 4.4: 'class GAGCore::StreamBackend' has no member named 'getc'"
  apply patch from the BTS, upload to DELAYED/2

remarks:

• to be honest, these were all easy bugs, I just grabbed existing patches (by Martin Michlmayr, peter green, & several Ubuntu folks).
• reactions so far: one "thank you" mail, no other comments.

RCBW - week #16 ... and here are christmas (for those who care) RC squashes, by yours truly (for those who care too):

• bug #530527 - ipsec-tools - gcc 4.4 strict-aliasing, patch by peter green
• bug #539010 - opensrs-client - stop using deprecated Perl module MD5, patch by Ansgar Burchardt
• bug #539542 - libnsgif - gcc 4.4 strict-aliasing, patch by peter green
• bug #531715 - gcin - gcc 4.4 missing include, patch by Martin Michlmayr (+ lintian overrides for appropriate use of rpath)
• bug #504873 - im-sdk - gcc 4.4 missing include, patch by Martin Michlmayr (bonus: package orphaning, misc QA, kfreebsd patches applied)
• bug #540681 - beast - cast to volatile pointer, patch by Jakub Wilk
• bug #560499 - beast - gcc 4.4 missing includes

and here are the usual notes:

• most of them come from Luk, which this week provided me with a looong list (and of course I was not able to empty it) ...
• ... that list has probably entered the radar of others: let's thank Christoph Egger, gregor hermann, and David Paleino, which contributed quite a lot of RC-fixing NMUs in the past few days (probably others did too, but these 3 got into my way the most )
• I got annoyed by bug #562518 (zlibg b0rkage) for a while: while my main system got saved by apt-listbugs, my cowbuilder environment was not that lucky
• I've tried following a wise advice to speed up pkg building, but it does not work w/ cowbuilder, which insists in creating hard links and hence fail due to cross-device linking. I need to investigate whether this can be fixed without loosing APT cache sharing with the host system
• "thanks" to im-sdk, I discovered yet another patch management system: dbs: how many others are still out there?
• how dumb is a BTS instance which is not accessible by default w/o registration even for read-only purposes?

Hint/request of the week: please add +pending when you do DELAYED/ NMUs, that way filtering out already taken care of bugs gets easier and refreshing a bug log page in the browser will immediately show the new tag at the top.
(Yes, I agree that nmudiff should offer that when passed --delay, I intend to propose a patch for that, but feel free to beat me at it :-P) In other news, christmas vacations are awesome to catch up with books you planned to finish reading months ago ... Update: the patch for nmudiff I've mentioned has been kindly provided by gregor hermann, thanks!

I really liked doing stuff like Zack s RCBW in the past, but nowadays I m busy with some buildds, reporting RC bugs because some maintainers don t test their uploads, as well as posting patches to fix FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD. But from time to time, it s also fun to close RC bugs. Here s a new concept (that I probably won t reproduce as regularly as Zack and his minions, though): RCBN for Release-Critical Bugs of the Night. Those are now closed:

• #552862: postman: FTBFS: cgi-lib.c:238: error: conflicting types for 'getline'
• #545621: regina-normal: FTBFS: problem linking with boost
• #540427: jconv: Build-Depends on libc6-dev (>= 2.7)
• #540669: kflickr: FTBFS: '.libs/libkflickrpart.so': No such file or directory
• #554638: jconv_0.8.1-1(ia64/unstable): FTBFS: build-depnds libc6-dev
• #527732: orpie: FTBFS: (.data+0x2c0): undefined reference to 'ml_gsl_vector_float_minmaxindex'
• #520862: libkarma - FTBFS: /usr/bin/csc: Command not found

Many thanks to Peter Green, to Ruben Molina, and to Ilya Barygin for their patches. Special thanks to Richard Darst for orpie s patches: he even managed to get rid of embedded code copies while addressing the FTBFS. Nice! Unfortunately, in the same time, I had to open some FTBFS/RC bugs:

• #559766: java3d: FTBFS on non-Linux ports
• #559767: java3d: FTBFS on armel: install: cannot stat 'j3d-core/build/default/ '
• #559768: java3d: FTBFS on hppa: java compilation issues
• #559771: evolution-dev: Might be missing a Depends on libgtkhtml*-dev
• #559781: ktoon: FTBFS with current ffmpeg
• #559794: libfvm-dev: *LOTS* of undefined references

So, what s next? Get back to work!