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Nathanael Nerode

2004-03-11, 11:34 pm

These are simply packages in sarge with RC bugs in sarge, such that the RC
bugs are marked 'patch' and have been so for a while -- and furthermore
the fixes really are straightforward and clearly correct.

Some of these have *other* RC bugs as well, of course,....

ccache (#200185)

db3 (#223142)

db4.0 (#223140)

(Be very sure you get the upload right with the db packages, given the number
of things which depend on them.)

horde2 (#204138)

snort (#231580)

sysklogd (#223210)

util-linux (#231477) -- but other RC bugs may make this unfeasible

xemacs21-packages (#169861) -- but other RC bugs may make this unfeasible

There are probably lots of other good candidates, I just made this list fairly
conservatively.

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Andreas Barth

2004-03-12, 4:34 am

* Nathanael Nerode (neroden@twcny.rr.com) [040312 04:25]:
> sysklogd (#223210)


sysklogd has also the second RC-bug that it doesn't work w/o
/usr/share/doc, but the maintainer considers this to be a feature.
Given that the last NMU was rolled back by the maintainer, and that
there is a special readme that NMUs are not allowed, I wish the NMUer
much fun with it.


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Petter Reinholdtsen

2004-03-12, 4:34 am

[Andreas Barth]
> Given that the last NMU was rolled back by the maintainer, and that
> there is a special readme that NMUs are not allowed, I wish the
> NMUer much fun with it.


I guess NMUing this package isn't enough. This is the testing status:

- 161 days old (needed 5 days)
- sysklogd (source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips,
mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc) is buggy! (1 > 0)
- Not considered

And this is the bug status:

- 73 outstanding
- 1 forwarded to upstream software authors
- 2 pending upload
- 1 resolved

I guess a caring hand is needed.

The maintainer, Martin Schulze, is busy in other parts of Debian, and
I suspect the package would be better off with some co-maintainers.
Martin seem to look at sysklogd 1-2 times a year, so there are still
hope, but it seems to me that the package need more time spent on it.


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Anthony Towns

2004-03-12, 12:34 pm

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:32:05AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Nathanael Nerode (neroden@twcny.rr.com) [040312 04:25]:
> sysklogd has also the second RC-bug that it doesn't work w/o
> /usr/share/doc, but the maintainer considers this to be a feature.


What's the bug number for this issue? If it hasn't been filed as a bug,
where's the archived discussion that's taken place about it, or at least
the original problem report?

Cheers,
aj

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Petter Reinholdtsen

2004-03-12, 12:34 pm

[Anthony Towns]
> What's the bug number for this issue? If it hasn't been filed as a
> bug, where's the archived discussion that's taken place about it, or
> at least the original problem report?


Have a look at
<URL:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...758&archive=yes>.


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Andreas Barth

2004-03-12, 1:34 pm

* Anthony Towns (aj@azure.humbug.org.au) [040312 17:40]:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 09:32:05AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
[color=darkred]
> What's the bug number for this issue?


#222758


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Amaya

2004-03-12, 8:34 pm

Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> These are simply packages in sarge with RC bugs in sarge, such that
> the RC bugs are marked 'patch' and have been so for a while -- and
> furthermore the fixes really are straightforward and clearly correct.


Please get imwheel in that list. If any of you guys feel like NMUing for
me I'd be a happy girl, cause I'm overworked, and not taking proper
care of it.

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Jochen Voss

2004-03-12, 9:34 pm

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 05:49:42PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Have a look at
> <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...758&archive=yes>.

Funny feature ;-) But maybe a prominent

if ! [ -d /usr/share/doc ]; then
echo "error: /usr/share/doc not present" 1>&2
exit 1
di

at the top of the maintainer scripts would be a cleaner way to
implement it? The way it is currently implemented seems a little bit
obscure.

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Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña

2004-03-17, 4:39 pm

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 08:52:59PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> These are simply packages in sarge with RC bugs in sarge, such that the RC
> bugs are marked 'patch' and have been so for a while -- and furthermore
> the fixes really are straightforward and clearly correct.

(...)
> snort (#231580)


I'll probably upload a patched version and fix some other bugs along the
way, the current changelog entry for the NMU (patch sent today to
maintainer and co-maintainer) includes:

snort (2.1.0-4.1) unstable; urgency=high

* NMU
* Snort group is now created using --system in all packages
Closes: #231580
* Both the cron.daily script and the postinst scripts set a default
value for STATS_RCPT and STATS_TRESHOLD to avoid buggy behaviours
if the user does not setup a proper value when interfacing with
debconf. Still, these values should be checked in the config
scripts. (Closes: #173331)
* Snort-stat now exists if there are no results which will avoid
it from sending empty emails (Closes: #217913, #174508, #192401,
#172529)
* Improved the explanations in several templates (Closes: #217173)
* Updated Japanese translation (and fixed some po format errors,
hopefully without damaging the po file) (Closes: #226680)
* Included Catalan debconf translation (Closes: #236644)
* Updated pt-BR debconf translation (Closes: #228244)
* Re-Added (partial) spanish debconf translation (it seems that
the work I did back in december 2001 has not been moved to
po-debconf!)

I'll have to ask the po-maintainers to revise the po files though.

Regards

Javier

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