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[Hilton Gibson]

Wow. You guys were busy! Thanks for the work.


On 5 March 2013 11:36, Stefano Rivera <stefanor at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi ubuntu-za (2013.03.01_17:06:32_+0200)
> > Reminder: Global Jam at codebridge tomorrow morning.
> >
> > Details: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-za/2246/detail/
>
> Follow up (as requested my Miles):
>
> * General documentation for people getting started in Ubuntu
>   Development:
>   - http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/
>
> * Graham finished the SRU [0] uploads for the CUDA stack in quantal [1, 2].
>   These were prepared beforehand, but I hadn't got around to reviewing
>   them before the jam.
>
> * Raoul, Grant, and I had a look through the packages that are failing
>   to build in raring, but didn't see any obviously easy ones to fix.
>   The list from the most recent archive rebuild [3] is littered with
>   multi-arch python fallout, which has been fixed [4]
>
> * We then reviewed the RC bug fixes from Debian [5].
>   I cleaned up a bunch of spam on that page
>   We reviewed the bugs for accessodf, elilo, hamster-applet, imswitch,
>   rawstudio and found that they didn't affect Ubuntu.
>   The clang bug seems to affect Ubuntu but was far too complex for our
>   jam.
>   The ncpfs bug affects Ubuntu. It's already been synced [6] but isn't
>   installable in Ubuntu [7] because it depends on a newer initscripts
>   version.
>   The libticonv bug affects Ubuntu, but the libticonv package in Ubuntu
>   has a totally different ancestry to the Debian package. It should
>   probably be merged but that'd be a non-trivial job.
>
> * Reviewing Debian RC bug #700315 [8] for rawstudio pointed us to
>   flickcurl 1.23-1 which we synced [9] from Debian experimental, to fix
>   Debian bug #700050 [10].
>
> * I updated my build failure report for precise [11], for Graham, to see
> what
>   other CUDA related things hadn't built yet.
>
> * Julian Taylor (a MOTU who happened to be around on IRC, during our
>   jam) suggested that Graham look at SRUing bug 1113356 [12]. Graham
>   prepared a patch, which Julian sponsored for him.
>
> * We were about to start writing some autopkgtests [13] for some of my
>   packages in Debian, but decided we were hungry, and went to Hudsons
>   for beer, burgers, and coffee.
>
> Thanks, Graham, Grant, Raoul, and Maia!
>
> SR
>
> [0]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
> [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1092259
> [2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/950963
> [3]:
> http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20121221-raring.html
> [4]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1098317
> [5]: http://qa.ubuntuwire.org/bugs/rcbugs/raring/
> [6]: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ncpfs/2.2.6-9
> [7]:
> http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/update_output.txt
> [8]: http://bugs.debian.org/700315
> [9]: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/raring/+source/flickcurl/1.23-1
> [10]: http://bugs.debian.org/700050
> [11]:
> http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~stefanor/lp-ftbfs-report/historical/primary-precise.html
> [12]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1113356
> [13]:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/README.package-tests;hb=HEAD
>
> --
> Stefano Rivera
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