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Details

• Announcement: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/11/msg00007.html

• Location: SteveMcIntyre's house, 87 Kendal Way, Cambridge CB4 1LP

• Start: Friday 27th Jan 2017, 19:00 UTC
• End: Sunday 29th Jan 2017, 19:00 UTC

• Bugs: user debian-release@lists.debian.org, usertags bsp-2017-01-gb-cambridge

  • bts user debian-release@lists.debian.org . usertag nnnnnn bsp-2017-01-gb-cambridge

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Transport

Accommodation

• 2 spare beds at Sledge's place - please ask!

• Room at the RattusRattus residence - ask on IRC

Bring

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• computers

Useful links

• Beginners HOWTO

• Vorlon's Bug Squashing HOWTO

• BSP

• Bug metadata manipulation

• Reference for Debian tools

Bugs

investigated

• 705152 RattusRattus - Not been touched for years.... Is marked for auto removal 20170129. Let it Die.

• 841575 Kinnison - Already marked for auto removal 20170129. Let it Die.

• 830214 Kinnison & jmw - Attempts to access internet during build. Already marked for auto removal 20170129. Let it Die.

• 796636 - patch sent, but testing failed, so no NMU. Intending to remove the oss4-dev build-dependency from dependent packages instead. -smcv

• 665334 RattusRattus - Licenses of type1 fonts. looked at the issues and we believe we we have a way forward - asked for guidance before continuing. Several RC bugs are blocked by this...

• 840733 RattusRattus - Asked Ted to remove non-DFSG compliant file from source as he has indecated he is willing to do so.

• 848976 848977 - jmw - merged with important bug 848978 where the future of courier needs to be determined

• 849504 - jmw - nudged maintainer for upload

• 795055 RattusRattus - nudged maintainer.

• 790796 RattusRattus - nudged maintainer.

• 852985 patch sent, unable to test so no NMU -smcv

• 831540, 831541, 848764 - marked for autoremoval, NPOASR, let it die -smcv

• 834910 - marked for autoremoval, NPOASR, RFA, not an upstream release, let it die -smcv

• 849333, 849652 - RC bugs for a month, NPOASR, let it die -smcv

• 838116 - unnecessary complexity for what turns out to be zero space saving in "causes bugs" shock. Preparing patch, cannot test functionally -smcv

• 777511 RattusRattus - Triage. tested against multiple kernel versions. nudged Ben as maintainer.

removal from testing sought

• 851099 Removed - jcristau

• 805660, 812649, 844795, 797239, 808654, 827738, 777901, 820797, 844227, 830371, 797867, 797869, 828420, 841769, 830214, 773586, 804584, 784181 (RoM), 705152, 788319, 814767, 817744, 806127 - mass removal 852945 -smcv, jcristau

• 852751 -smcv

• 852654 (RoM) -smcv

removal from unstable sought

• 705152 removed from testing, removal from unstable proposed -smcv

• 852659 last MU 2005, removal suggested in 852972 -smcv

• 850991 last MU 2012, tiny popcon, FTBFS and other problems - Sledge

uploaded

• 851803 Kinnison

  • Forced use of legacy location files (for now)

  • Opened new bug for Buster to correctly use the Debian location file. See 852946

  • Lintian also raises an error re user home directories, this is already mentioned in 665917

• 843496 JMW

  • Fixed i368 lib symlink in Python Package

• 852044 Kinnison

  • Passed correct path to MultiArch include header

• 795690 Sledge

  • Force a sane timezone during build of libcdio

  • Also fixed several other bugs: 850628 777222 812915

• 834746 Kinnison

  • Adds use of -msse4.1 when building the TESTS on i386 to fix the bug

• 846679 Sledge

  • Fix up linker line to fix FTBFS

• 851576 benh

  • New upstream version fixes this (and little else)

• 821892 Kinnison

  • Needed a patch to disable certain parts of badly written tests.

• 842446 benh

  • Fix up linker line to fix FTBFS

• 789118 -smcv

  • Insert a horrible hack into gdm to rewrite D-Bus messages from old libgdm (in a running gnome-shell/3.14's address space) on the way in to the process, compensating for a change to a private D-Bus interface between 3.14 and 3.16.

• 853018 -smcv

  • Ship one file from gnome-shell-common/3.14 in gnome-shell-common/3.22, so a running gnome-shell/3.14 won't fail to load an animation whose absence it handles poorly. Add patches from upstream git so stretch→buster upgrades won't suffer the same problem. -smcv

• 832858 jrtc27

  • Backported upstream PHP 7.0/7.1 fixes
  • Backported upstream fix for building in 2017 (and beyond)

  • Unblock requested - 853071

• 851770 - jmw - upload fix to delayed/2

• 852984, 852986 oss4-dev dependency dropped, NMU'd to delayed/7 -smcv

• 787956, 845793 - benh

  • Revert changes that introduced these bugs; add support for cross-building without multilib

• 827744 - benh

  • Apply patch from RH Bugzilla

severity lowered

• 843159 - Moved to wishlist.

• 811311 - Dropped to normal and responded to user

• 770130 - Dropped to important, concerns ~12 year old hardware -smcv

• 848927 - Works ok for me, so asked submitter for more info

• 851446 - Cloned from wrongly reopened RC bug; new problem probably rare; dropped to important - benh

• 777439 - Dropped to important - I expect we'd have seen lots of other reports by now - Sledge

• 847478 - Only triggered if source timestamps are changed; dropped to normal - benh

other fixes

• 835069 - NOT RC. Marked as done see 745034 (A bug I raised some time back!) - rattusrattus

• 813412 Marked as Done fixed in 0.89.1 - Kinnison

• 757083 Fix committed to git; maintainer upload requested - benh

• 794316 (not RC), 799179 (RC), 728180 (not RC) reproducible in jessie, unreproducible in stretch; believed to have been fixed upstream. Closed. -smcv

  • 796718 (not RC), 730653 (not RC), 734994 (not RC) closed as probable duplicates -smcv

• 832864 reassigned to the package where it was fixed -smcv

• Looked into some debootstrap bugs, considering new upload before Stretch (836525, 816892, 697488) - Sledge

opened

• 852983, 852984, 852985, 852986, 852988, 852989 to take 796636 and 829255 off the critical path -smcv

other administrative bugs handled

• 850827 (unblock, jmw)

• 851435 (unblock, jmw)

• 852855 (unblock, jmw)

• 852857 (unblock, jmw)

• 852865 (unblock, jmw)

• 852987 (unblock, jmw)

• 852990 (unblock, jmw)

• 852993 (unblock, jmw)

• 853050 (unblock, jmw)

• 853060 (unblock, jmw)

• 853063 (unblock, jmw)

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