FTBFS fixes and other patches available for your package!

Wheeze is planned to release very soon! There is still a fair amount of work to push the release out, but it does mean that a lot of fun can begin for jessie.

Over the past cycle in Ubuntu, many packages where synced from experimental, many fixes were applied and many packages were upgraded ahead of debian version strings.

If one goes to your package PTS page at:

packages.qa.debian.org/$SCRPACKAGENAME

One can find the following box titled "ubuntu" in it:

Please click on "patches for VERSION STRING" to find:

Useless irrelevant changes =) oh well, it happens
FTBFS fixes due to GCC 4.8 (*)
FTBFS fixes due to new GlibC
FTBFS fixes due to multiarched Python2.7 and Python3.3
FTBFS fixes due to multiarched Tcl/Tk
FTBFS fixes due to Python hash randomisation enabled
FTBFS fixes due to Boost 1.53 (*)
Fixes to minimise dependencies when bootstrapping packages
Fixes to multiarch more and more libraries
Fixes to enable package cross-building
Updates to new upstream releases
Usage of pybuild
Completed migration away from guile1.6

(*) more of those will be available after S-series opens in ubuntu, from April the 29th onwards

Some of the above patches were submitted to debian, with majority of submitted patches have not been applied, simply because none of them were appropriate during freeze and could have been disruptive to Wheezy release.

Please check useful patches available on your PTS!

Please take those patches!

Not taking Ubuntu patches results in more duplicate work in Ubuntu (i.e. rebasing those patches), thus reducing total dev-time available to work to fix other issues.

I myself uploaded a few of those patches into Ubuntu. And in the beginning I was filing BTS bugs with a patch against relevant packages in Debian. Very quickly I realised that since Debian is frozen a lot of those patches would just bitrot in BTS. I of course wished that they would all be instantly applied and uploaded into Experimental, but that did not happen. At the moment there are still 8 bugs open with patches I submitted, with oldest one opened on 6th of July 2012. So that's the reason why I stopped pushing patches to BTS, because well they are not reviewed nor applied in a timely manner =) where my expectation of timely manner is less than 6 months to be uploaded into Experimental or reviewed/rejected/commented on. Not uploading patches because they don't apply to Debian yet, is silly as they will apply to Debian eventually. Unapplied patches continue to generate more work on a more universal scope (e.g. requiring those patches to be rebased in ubuntu, thus many developers spending their time doing that, instead of writting fixes for new issues).

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