Evgeni Golov: Debian Bug Squashing Party Salzburg 2014
This weekend, Bernd Zeimetz organized a BSP at the offices of conova in Salzburg, Austria.
Three days of discussions, bugfixes, sparc removals and a lot of fun and laughter.
We squashed a total of 87 bugs: 66 bugs affecting Jessie/Sid were closed, 9 downgraded and 8 closed via removals. As people tend to care about (old)stable, 3 bugs were fixed in Wheezy and one in Squeeze. These numbers might be not totaly correct, as were kinda creative at counting Marga promised a talk about an introduction to properly counting bugs using the Haus vom Nikolaus algorithm to the base of 7 .
Speaking of numbers, I touched the following bugs (not all RC):
- #741806: pygresql: FTBFS: pgmodule.c:32:22: fatal error: postgres.h: No such file or directory
Uploaded an NMU with a patch. The bug was introduced by the recent PostgreSQL development package reorganisation. - #744229: qpdfview: FTBFS synctex/synctex_parser.c:275:20: fatal error: zlib.h: No such file or directory
Talked to the maintainer, explaining the importance of the upload and verifying his fix. - #744300: pexpect: missing dependency on dh-python
Downgraded to wishlist after verifying the build dependency is only needed when building for Wheezy backports. - #744917: luajit: FTBFS when /sbin is not in $PATH
Uploaded an NMU with a patch, which later was canceled due to a maintainer upload with a slightly different fix. - #742943: nagios-plugins-contrib: check_raid: wants mpt-statusd / mptctl
Analyzed the situation, verified the status with the latest upstream version of the ckeck and commented on the bug. - #732110: nagios-plugins-contrib: check_rbl error when nameserver available only in IPv6
Verify that the bug is fixed in the latest release and mark it as done. - #684726: nagios-plugins-contrib: RFP: check-v46 Icinga / Nagios plugin for dual stacked (IPv4 / IPv6) hosts
Mark bug as done, the changelog was missing a proper Closes tag. - #661167: nagios-plugins-contrib: please include nagios-check-printer-status
Mark bug as done, the changelog was missing a proper Closes tag. - #745895: nagios-plugins-contrib: does not compile against Varnish 4.0.0
Write a patch for supporting the Varnish 3 and 4 APIs at the same time. Also proposed the patch upstream. - #744922: nagios-plugins-contrib: check_packages: check for security updates broken
Forward oursecurity_updates_critical
patch and Felix fixes to it upstream, then updatingcheck_packages
to the latest upstream version. - #744248: nagios-plugins-contrib: check_cert_expire: support configurable warn/crit times
Forward Helmut s patch upstream, then updatingcheck_cert_expire
to the latest upstream version. - #745691: django-classy-tags: FTBFS: Sphinx documentation not found
Analyze the issue and the fix proposed in SVN, comment on the bug. - #713876: thinkfan: [PATCH] bugfix: use $MAINPID for ExecReload
Prepare and upload of the latest upstream release, which includes Michael s patch. - #713878: thinkfan: [PATCH] use dh-systemd for proper systemd-related maintscripts
Apply Michael s patch to the Debian packaging. - #728087: thinkfan: Document how to start thinkfan with systemd
Apply Michael s patch to the Debian packaging. - #742515: blktap-dkms: blktapblktap kernel module failed to build
Upload an NMU with a patch based on the upstream fix. - #745598: libkolab: FTBFS in dh_python2 (missing Build-Conflicts?)
Upload an NMU with a patch against libkolab s cmake rules, tightening the search for Python to 2.7. - #745599: libkolabxml: FTBFS with undefined reference to symbol _ZTVN5boost6detail16thread_data_baseE
Upload an NMU with a patch against libkolabxml s cmake rules, properly linking the tests to the Boost libraries. - #746160: libcolabxml: FTBFS when both python2 and python3 development headers are installed
Filling the bug while working on #745599, then uploading an NMU with a patch against libkolabxml s cmake rules, tightening the search for Python to 2.7. - #714045: blcr-dkms: blcr module is not built on kernel 3.9.1
Checking the status of the bug upstream, and marking it as forwarded. - #653404: hdapsd: init.d status support
Added Peter s patch to the Debian packaging, upload yet pending. - #702199: hdapsd: Typo in package description
Fixed typo in the description, upload yet pending. - #745219: crmsh: should depends on python-yaml
Verifying the bug with Stefan Bauer and sponsoring his NMU. - #741600: 389-ds-base: CVE-2014-0132
Sponsoring the NMU for Tobias Frost.