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I've orphaned "taglib" in response to the hostilities found in the
FESCo meeting log. Most likely Rex Dieter will pick it up, but I want
to let the list know as there are other dependencies on it.

Just for kicks, the current

Upgrade from 12+updates to 13+updates+testing

broken deps look like below.

Since http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/nautilus lists too many bugs,
does anyone know whether the following is tracked in bugzilla already?

If I open the "Sound Preferences" dialog in the GNOME panel, Nautilus
disappears/exits.

I've had a brief look at the open tickets, squashed one duplicate.

At least two show symptoms of memory corruption. They crashed in
g_object_unref with a saved icon reference that isn't modified by the
applet (because it must not be modified except for unref'ing it).

One crash is deep in Pango layout, with no call trace from within the
netspeed applet. With memory corruption somewhere, that backtrace
doesn't tell much else. Unless one is intimately familiar with Pango
and can rule out a problem in Pango. The netspeed applet only calls
a very few layout functions.

About three weeks ago, I've run into multiple package review requests
being marked FE_NEEDSPONSOR by a person who is a sponsored already
with a different email address [at Red Hat]:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/554234#c6

Sometimes FE_NEEDSPONSOR is set by mistake, because submitters
misunderstand the purpose of that extra tracking and think packages
need a sponsor. I've removed the tracking links from the review tickets
and have asked for clarification.

According to yesterday's reply, the person really wants to create a second
account.

Bugzilla status for packages violating the Static Library guidelines:

acl 556036 -> CLOSED
atlas 556037
attr 556038 -> CLOSED
audit 556039
binutils 556040
brltty 556041
Canna 556034 -> CLOSED
cdparanoia 547682
comedilib 556043
dnssec-tools 556044
e2fsprogs

How much do we adhere to our Packaging Guidelines for static libraries?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Lib...

What had started with a few Yum queries for corner-cases (see
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2009-December/msg00012.... )
has continued with another remote repository checking script:

[...]

Target distribution:
rawhide
Reading repository metadata...

Misnamed -devel/-static packages:
db4-devel-static from db4-4.8.24-1.fc13.src.rpm
elfutils-devel-static from elfutils-0.143-1.fc12.src.rpm
elfutils-lib

What's wrong with ABRT?

Originally, with stock F-12, I had received a couple of good backtraces in
bugzilla. Incredibly useful. A wonderful improvement over F-11 and older.

And later? - Recently, in all the backtraces dozens of debuginfo packages
are missing. :-(

Fedora 12 with LD_PRELOAD=libefence.so.0.0 EF_ALLOW_MALLOC_0=1, what is
more likely that these are false positives or real bugs?
$ gnome-terminal

Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <<...> at perens dot com>
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

==> in ORBit corba-any.c

$ geeqie

Electric Fence 2.2.2 Copyright (C) 1987-1999 Bruce Perens <<...> at perens dot com>
Geeqie 1.0beta2, This is an alpha release.
Could not init LIRC support

ElectricFence Aborting: free(86c6e00): address not from malloc().
Illegal instruction (core dumped)

==> in glib2 gslice.c

$ gnome-calculator

Why are you overly brief when you could be a bit more verbose? Which
platform? Which terminal/console? Which package release of pinfo?

Compared with "info grub" (or other info readers you might find), does
it look unusual/not normal or like some personal configuration problem
(e.g. due to choice of terminal colours)? In case it looks like a bug,
http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/pinfo
if the distribution is still alive and hasn't reached EOL yet.

"pinfo grub" here works fine on F13 development.

http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=src
http://files.musepack.net/source/musepack_src_r435.tar.gz

It seems we only have the old libmpcdec 1.2.6 in Fedora, which can decode
SV7 but not SV8.

Is the new set of libs and tools (from March 2009) hidden somewhere?
Or are there new legal problems?

I'm in search for somebody who can give me feedback about whether the
following builds of the audacious-plugins package succeed or fail
at playing Musepack (.mpc) audio files:

Fedora 12: audacious-plugins-2.1-18.fc12
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=141715

Fedora 11: audacious-plugins-1.5.1-18.fc11
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=141710

Fedora 10: audacious-plugins-1.5.1-18.fc10
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=141711

In particular, I'm interested in tests on x86_64, since playback
works fine for me on i686.

In F-10, F-11 and F-12, with a combination of GNOME, xterm, Emacs,
Firefox, Claws Mail, ...

... all of a sudden my keyboard input layout changes from QWERTZ to QWERTY
(or Germany to USA) and back again some time later. Inside Emacs, for
example, while editing some text. I can open new xterms, and they are
affected, too. A previously opened root xterm is not affected. Or not
always. Can't tell.

Do other people see this, too?
Is anyone aware of existing tickets that perhaps track this?

Results of an extras-repoclosure run for F-11 + Updates to F-12 + Updates and i686:

| source rpm: PolicyKit-olpc-1.2-2.fc11.src.rpm
| package: PolicyKit-olpc-1.2-2.fc11.noarch from fedora-11-i386
| unresolved deps:
| /var/lib/PolicyKit-public
| related pkgs:
| PolicyKit

The new "polkit" package set does not provide this directory anymore.
And nothing replaces/obsoltes PolicyKit-olpc in F-12.

| source rpm: asterisk-1.6.1-0.23.rc1.fc11.src.rpm
| package: asterisk-mobile-1.6.1-0.23.rc1.fc11.i586 from fedora-11-i386
| unresolved deps:
| asterisk = 0:1.6.1-0.23.rc1.fc11
| related

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/bugs/libsndfile

What's up with libsndfile in Fedora and EPEL?
There are open tickets about CVEs filed in March.
There are additional tickets without any reply.

It seems so. What will be the next step? Fedora bookmarks for Firefox,
which point at the same web sites that gnaughty uses and advertises?
More tools like that? A competing tool for a competitor's adult web site?
A comps group for such software packages?

| Description: Application to download automatically adult sex content, i.e.
| : movies and pictures, from a known internet directory.

"Known"? Known by whom? It can't be spelled out like in the README?
All what the tool seems to do is to serve as an advertisement.

The current thread on "ksensors, id3lib" has reminded me to give
gnome-applet-sensors another try right now. In F11. It works for me
while that hasn't been true before (troubles with acpi thrm or
no sensors).

As a result, I'd like to retire GAI (General Applet Interface Library)
and two of the applets that are in the Fedora Package Collection:

gai-temp
gai-pal
gai

There has not been any new release since 2005. Several patches
have been mailed upstream, but later without any response.

Does plain Data DVD file writing+verifying with k3b and GNOME still work
on Fedora 11?

I had "Verify written data" checked:

[...]
Writing successfully completed.

It then ejected the disc and closed the tray again immediately.
The infamous and premature "No medium found" dialog popped up.
I didn't touch it, because it would close after a few seconds
when it would recognise the disc it just had reloaded.

In the background, a Nautilus opened for the recognised disc.
A disc icon appeared, too.
k3b, however, did not proceed to verifying any files.

The packaging style in the nss-softokn package continues to bug me.

There are RPM triggers being used to install/remove a prelink config file
whenever the prelink package gets installed/removed. According to a comment
in the spec file, it is only done like that because the package doesn't
want to own the /etc/prelink.conf.d directory.

There's a Fedora 11 bug report

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/519370

which claims that the new GnuPG 2.0.12 and GPGME 1.1.8

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8179

would break the message signing feature within Sylpheed. As I'm still
watching the bugzilla traffic for Sylpheed, I've tried to reproduce it,
but GPG signing still works for me in Sylpheed (and also in Claws Mail,
which uses GPGME, too).

Any Sylpheed users out there who would like to confirm/deny this
breakage?

Doubtful. How much will that save?

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Summary of broken packages (by src.rpm name):

beagle
bmpx
clipsmm
f-spot
fedora-business-cards
kdeedu
openmpi
openvrml
ppl
R-RScaLAPACK
rubygem-main
rubygem-rails
scheme2js
tomboy

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Broken packages in fedora-11-i386:

R-RScaLAPACK-0.5.1-19.fc11.i586 requires openmpi-lib

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Summary of broken packages (by src.rpm name):

beagle
bmpx
clipsmm
f-spot
fedora-business-cards
kdeedu
openmpi
ppl
qscintilla
R-RScaLAPACK
rubygem-actionmailer
rubygem-main
rubygem-rails
scheme2js
tomboy

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Broken packages in fedora-11-i386:

R-RScaLAPACK-0.5.1-19.fc11.

As I'd like to discontinue with packaging the XMMS SID Input plugin
for Fedora, I've dropped ownership, so somebody else may take over.

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/xmms-sid

Preferably, somebody who takes this also has some interest in triaging
XMMS bugs, as there have been several unresponded tickets that got lost
when the bug-triaging project closed them WONTFIX.

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The results in this summary consider Test Updates!
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Summary of broken packages (by src.rpm name):

beagle
clipsmm
openmpi
ppl
python-tgext-crud
R-RScaLAPACK
rubygem-actionmailer
rubygem-main
rubygem-rails
tomboy

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Broken packages in fedora-11-i386:

R-RScaLAPACK-0.5.1-19.fc11.i586 requires openmpi-libs
clipsmm-0.0.7-5.fc11.i586 requ

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The results in this summary consider Test Updates!
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Summary of broken packages (by src.rpm name):

beagle
clipsmm
gauche-gl
gauche-gtk
openmpi
ppl
python-tgext-crud
R-RScaLAPACK
rubygem-actionmailer
rubygem-main
rubygem-rails
synce-kde
tomboy
vdccm
vtk

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Broken packages in fedora-11-i386:

R-RScaLAPACK-0.5.1-19.fc11.i58

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The results in this summary consider Test Updates!
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Summary of broken packages (by src.rpm name):

beagle
CodeAnalyst-gui
gauche-gl
gauche-gtk
mono-tools
openmpi
pcmanx-gtk2
ppl
python-repoze-what
python-tgext-crud
R-RScaLAPACK
rubygem-actionpack
rubygem-activeldap
rubygem-main
rubygem-rails
synce-kde
tomboy
vdccm
vtk

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The results in this summary consider Test Updates!
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Summary of broken packages (by src.rpm name):

beagle
CodeAnalyst-gui
gauche-gl
gauche-gtk
gnome-bluetooth
gnome-phone-manager
mono-tools
openmpi
pcmanx-gtk2
ppl
python-repoze-what
python-tgext-crud
R-RScaLAPACK
synce-kde
tomboy
vdccm
vtk

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Broken packages in fedor

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Summary of broken packages (by src.rpm name):

db4o
gadget
gauche-gl
gauche-gtk
libvirt-qpid
llvm
php
ppl
python-morbid
python-repoze-what
trac-customfieldadmin-plugin
wine

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Broken packages in fedora-10-i386:

gauche-gl-0.4.4-3.fc9.i386 requires gauche = 0:0.8.13
gauche-gtk

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Summary of broken packages (by src.rpm name):

beagle
CodeAnalyst-gui
epiphany
gauche-gl
gauche-gtk
libguestfs
mono-tools
pcmanx-gtk2
ppl
python-repoze-what
tomboy
wine

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Broken packages in fedora-11-i386:

CodeAnalyst-gui-2.8.38-11.fc11.i586 requires libbfd-2.19.51.0.2-17.fc11.