Sunday 20 June 2021

+1 maintenance report

The packages I managed to resolve issues for on the week 14-17th June:

- xscreensaver - merged from Debian.
- v4l-utils - had one test that had timed out, but worked once retried.
- micropython - diagnosed the build failure, found the commit that fixes it upstream and filed https://launchpad.net/bugs/1931955 to show on update-excuses page.
- libcamera - diagnosed the build failure, found the commit that fixes it upstream and filed https://launchpad.net/bugs/1931958 to show on update-excuses page.
- notcurses - diagnosed the build failure, contacted Debian upstream with suggested fix which they applied. Filed https://launchpad.net/bugs/1932103 to show on update-excuses page.
- tiff - breaks pylibtiff due to deprecated defines in header file that aren't handled in pylibtiff. Proposed fix upstream https://github.com/pearu/pylibtiff/pull/128 and noted on Debian bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=989951.