RC Bugs 2012/18
Here is my recent activity on RC bugs for 2012/18:
#666383 - distcc: FTBFS: mkdir: cannot create directory `/etc/distcc': Permission denied
Send patch to BTS.
#670808 - libfuse-perl: FTBFS on kfreebsd-(i386|amd64): error: 'struct stat' has no member named 'st_atimespec'
Prepare a patch and ask on debian-bsd Mailing list for help. Finally upload the fixed package to unstable.
#665033 - lwat: FTBFS: build- dependency not installable: smarty-gettext
Check the build failure. smarty-gettext depends on smarty, which is not present anymore in the archive. Reassign bug to smarty-gettext. Merge #665040 into the same bug.
#669446 - redhat-cluster: FTBFS: pacemaker.c:19:40: fatal error: pacemaker/crm/common/stack.h: No such file or directory
Prepare patch and send it to the BTS.
#665232 - libmoosex-method-signatures-perl: FTBFS: tests failed
Update to version 0.42. The new upstream version marks the failing tests (due to Eval::Closure isues) as TODO.
RC Bugs 2012/17
Here is my activity on release critical bugs for 2012/17:
#669530 - dsc-statistics: FTBFS: ! LaTeX Error: File `path.sty' not found.
Add texlive-generic-recommended to Build-Depends. Sent patch to the bugtracker.
#666382 - ocaml-libvirt: FTBFS: debian/xml-man/en/mlvirsh.1: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/dh_installman line 127.
Verify package if it still FTBFS. Close bugreport as the package builds fine now.
Furthermore asked debian-wb-team to give-back ocaml-libvirt on mips to see if the FTBFS was a transient issue there.
#663562 - wmmail: FTBFS: wmmail.h:32:35: fatal error: WINGs/proplist-compat.h: No such file or directory
Investigate the FTBFS. wmaker 0.95.1 dropped WINGs/proplist-compat.h.
#666339 - tcptrace: FTBFS: cp: cannot stat `debian/tmp/tcptrace': No such file or directory
Correct use of build-arch target in debian/rules. Propose a NMU to the BTS.
#670717 - fuse: unknown option `'
Rebuilding 0.14 for solves the issue. Prepare the new upstream version 0.15.1 and upload to the archive.
RC Bugs 2012/16
Here is my activity on release critical bugs for 2012/16:
#666606 - okumura-clsfiles: FTBFS: I can't find the format file `ptex.fmt'!
Build the package locally. texlive-lang now builds a transitional dummy package ptex-bin.
#666619 - derivations: FTBFS: sed: can't read /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/book.cls: No such file or directory
Only prepare a patch to fix the build failure by changing the clsdir path in tex/Makefile.
#666663 - pymecavideo: FTBFS: /bin/sh: 4: inkscape: not found
Triage the bug. librsvg (2.36.0-2) reverts upstream commit which dropped the "rsvg" script until all reverse dependencies are fixed. This is tracked in #666481 for pymecavideo.
#666631 - libsystem-command-perl: FTBFS: tests failed
Prepare new upstream version updating the t/20-zombie.t test.
RC Bugs 2012/15
Here is my activity on release critical bugs for 2012/15:
#665226 - libgnupg-perl: FTBFS: test failed
GnuPG 1.4.12 adds a new status message DECRYPTION_INFO which leads to FTBFS for libgnupg-perl when using gnupg 1.4.12. Prepared a patch to check for this additional status message.
RC Bugs 2012/14
Here is my activity for 2012/14:
#666574 - libcairo-perl: FTBFS: tests failed
Propose a patch to make the build under unstable again succeed with the newer cairo version.
#665256 - performous: FTBFS: Required library Pango NOT FOUND.
Propose a patch (adding libpango1.0-dev to Build-Depends) to fix the FTBFS.
#664923 - wmauda: FTBFS: wmauda.c:19:21: fatal error: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory
Propose a patch by adding libgtk2.0-dev to Build-Depends to fix the FBTFS.
RC Bugs 2012/13
I got motivated by gregoa to report my own release critical bugs activities. Here what I have done in the 13th week for 2012:
#664940 - pyentropy: FTBFS: tries to write to $HOME.
Upload to the archive directly without delay with maintainers permission.
#664900 - libio-socket-ssl-perl: FTBFS, failing test.
Upload new upstream versions. Patch to fix FTBFS prepared by Alessandro Ghedini.
#661566 - libnet-ssleay-perl: Segfault when lniked into an Apache/mod_ssl/mod_perl process.
Upload to the archive with patch cherry-picked from upstream svn repository.
#666562 - libpadre-plugin-moose-perl: FTBFS Failing tests
#666563 - libpadre-plugin-pdl-perl: FTBFS
