RC bugs of the week - week 6

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:11:47 +0200
debian, lang/english, planet-debian, rcbw

RCBW - week #6

RC bugs squashed this week by yours truly:

05/10/2009 Debian bug #549828, Debian bug #549829 - lablgtkmathview - dh_ocaml transition (fix FTBFS)

06/10/2009 Debian bug #549773 - calendar - dh_ocaml transition (fix FTBFS)

07/10/2009 Debian bug #549750 - pxp - dh_ocaml transition (fix FTBFS)

08/10/2009 Debian bug #549850 - galax - dh_ocaml transition (fix FTBFS)

09/10/2009 Debian bug #547831 - lxml - python 2.6 transition (fix [future] FTBFS)

10/10/2009 Debian bug #541560 - gramps - python-gnome2-desktop split (fix uninstallability)

11/10/2009 Debian bug #536959 - helium - port to editline (fix FTBFS), patch by Chris Lamb

This week I've cheated for at least two reasons:

1. the first 4 entries in the list above are bugs of "mine", since within the Debian OCaml Maintainers team we migrated to a new package toolchain called dh_ocaml (with a lot of advantages I've anticipated before my summer break). The migration to that triggered (thanks, Lucas! ) more than 30 FTBFSs which had to be dealt with. So, even if not cheating, it is at least breaking the NMU tradition of RCBW, but they were still RC bugs looking for a fix! All in all, I'm impressed by the fact that in about a week we dealt with most of them.

2. the lxml fix above is severity "important" and as such, not RC. I attacked that because I intended to help out with the Python 2.6 transition which is still, at the time of writing, 41 bugs away from hitting unstable. I confess I did not find the task particularly fun (which is a requirement for me when I work on packages which are not mine) yet, we'll see next week ...

The feeling of the week I've to share is that I'm more and more impressed to not have received any complaint about my NMU activity, and I'm approaching the 50 NMUs. Actually I've received several "thank you" replies (you rock guys and you know who you are).

On one hand this is probably a good indication that I haven't (yet) done any serious mistake; I do love peer-review! On the other hand, and more importantly, this is dispelling inside me the folklore / cultural block we have in Debian that "NMU is bad", while NMUing should become a way to help each other routinely. Really.