RC bugs of the week - issue 21

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:43:27 +0100
bsp, debian, lang/english, planet-debian, rcbw

RCBW - #21

I've accumulated one more day of delay, but here is a full RCBW issue. Still, I've a nice good excuse for the extra delay: I've changed house in Paris, the new one is very small (a chambre de bonne), but also very comfortable.

Without any further ado, here are this week's squashes:

Debian bug #555325 - gq - requested removal from testing

Debian bug #567265 - tinyproxy - clarify ambiguous debian/copyright

Debian bug #569391 - gmetadom - fix CDBS include order, to ensure proper generation of ${ocaml:Depends}

Debian bug #559814 - hamlib - libltdl privilage escalation (sponsor upload for Kamal Mostafa)

Debian bug #567192 - ircd-hybrid - apply patch from DSA-1980-1 (thanks Steffen Joeris)

Debian bug #563883 - python-dmidecode - avoid shipping /usr/local/ stuff (sponsor upload for Nima Talebi)

Debian bug #561904 - python-dmidecode - fix file clash w/ -dbg package (ditto for the sponsoring)

And here are the usual highlights:

a quote from #debian-devel, on 10/02/2010:

    (11:41:49) Zhenech: zack, damn you, now you infected me with the nmu virus :P
    (11:42:08) zack: Zhenech: yay, another one \o/
    (11:42:30) zack: Zhenech: can I quote you? ;-)
    (11:42:45) Zhenech: zack, only if you don't sell it to elsevier ;)
    (11:43:12) zack: deal!

in some particular cases RC bugs can be "fixed" by requesting the removal of a package from testing (when it is not appropriate to remove the involved packages completely from the archive, which is often the case). As I didn't that much often in the past, I forgot how to do that: just file a bug against release.debian.org respecting the usual removal conventions

gregor hermann is my hero

bernd zeimez posted on planet an impressive summary of Moenchengladbach's BSP