RC Bugs 2012/52
For the last week of the year I have only worked on following RC issues:
#695845 - open-vm-tools: Init script should Required-{Start,Stop} $remote_fs
Sent proposed t-p-u debdiff to the BTS, and asked the release team for an approval to upload to t-p-u.
#696691 - freetype: multiple vulnerabilities in freetype before 2.4.11
Report the issues to the BTS and submit also the debdiff for the version in unstable with small comment.
After an ACK by Steve Langasek on IRC uploaded the NMU without delay to unstable.
#696304 - nmu: tsung_1.4.2-1
Add a comment on the request to binNMU tsung.
#649068 - rgmanager and resource-agents: error when trying to install together
Upload the package targetting t-p-u prepared by Ivo Decker.
#696736 - Insecure permissions on database files
Looked at the patches in Ubuntu and submit a debdiff for unstable to the BTS.
#654341 - inkscape reads .eps files from /tmp instead of the current directory
Checked the issue and asked if this warrants a CVE. Furhermore sent a comment to the BTS.
RC Bugs 2012/51
Due to limited time no real work on RC bugs again this week.
#603428 - snort: prompting due to modified conffiles which where not modified by the user
Tried to repoduce and sent information to the BTS.
#696066 - fuse-utils: directory vs. symlink mess after squeeze => wheezy upgrade: /usr/share/doc/fuse-utils/
Tested the proposed solution and sent patch to the BTS.
RC Bugs 2012/50
No real work done for 2012/50. Sponsoring a t-p-u upload and only investigated one further issue with open-vm-tools and rgl.
#687848 - extlinux-update: fails to correctly update changed syslinux debian themes
Work not done by me but by Ivo De Decker. Upload the approved package to t-p-u.
#695845 - open-vm-tools: Init script should Required-{Start,Stop} $remote_fs
Looked at the bugreport and noticed that with $remote_fs added this causes problems with the boot dependencies. Report this to the bugreport.
#684810 - rgl: FTBFS: types.h:98:5: error: 'copy' was not declared in this scope, and no declarations were found by argument-dependent lookup at the point of instantiation [- fpermissive]
Sent comments to the unblock request bugreport.
RC Bugs 2012/49
Not much work on RC done this week. Here is the short summary:
#675895 - parrot: FTBFS in sid: (.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main'
Check that the package indeed builds fine in wheezy and unstable for the current verison in wheezy. Reassign the bug to icu and mark the fixed versions.
#694368 - libfuzzy{2,-dev}: missing Breaks+Replaces: ssdeep (<< 2.6)
Add comment to the BTS.
#695274 - libparse-debian-packages-perl: Problem parsing stanzas with more than 1 multiline entry
Checked the report and looked at current rdepends. Forwarded the bugreport upstream to the CPAN RT and downgrated the severity.
