RC bugs of the week - week 17

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:54:03 +0100
debian, lang/english, planet-debian, rcbw

RCBW - #17

Given that my "most blogged" Debian activity since last summer has been RCBW, what else could be my first post of 2010 if not a RCBW update? With further ado, here are this week squashes by yours truly:

Debian bug #559898 - flowcanvas - fixed in unstable, tag as needed

Debian bug #562503 - man-db - downgrading severity (RC-ness was in zlib, which is now fixed)

Debian bug #541610 - docbook2odf - switch dep away from (now gone) libxml-sablot-perl

Debian bug #528088 - ttf-aenigma - fonts are actually free, as detailed in debian/copyright

Debian bug #544113 - tiger - remove dep on essential package (bonus: misc deps/debhelper fixes)

Debian bug #561466 - ttf-beteckna - rebuild against fixed defoma (thanks Julien Cristau who spotted a wrong fix of mine)

Debian bug #561470, Debian bug #549987 - halevt - add missing dep on policykit (bonus: QA upload with misc fixes)

No particular remarks, but a long overdue tip of the week: the turmzimmer BTS interface is a great tool for bug squashing. Still, it has a issue with comments which can slow down some activities, but which you can help getting better! First of all you should know that comments are per-package and not per-bug (which might not be obvious, especially since often packages listed on the page have just one bug per-package). That means that you should generally mention the bug you are referring to when you post comments, unless the comments are really package-specific.

Additionally, old comments are persistent, so you might get baffled by old comments that "invalidate" current issues. So, if you notice a comment that predates the actual bug numbers, please remove the comment by editing it and stating "no comment" in the form.

Ah, happy new year (in case you care about sharp, calendar-based time partitions).