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[seth AT swoolley.homeip.net]

I'm about half way through and found a package database corruption 
affecting the following spells:

libxml2, tex-misc, gst-plugins, and thp

If you think a failure was caused by a dependency on one of those in 
stable-rc but it claims it was installed, well, it may not have been.  
Go ahead and mark it as a dupe of 12160.  I'll look at it and determine 
if it truly was the cause and reopen it if necessary.

In other news, we have _a lot_ of bugs we need people to work on.  Most 
of these are obvious dependency issues that are easy to see and fix.  If 
you feel like you are up to it, we need volunteers for this more than 
running prometheus itself.  Our bug finding rate is faster than our fix 
rate.  When that picture changes, I might need more hardware, but for 
now we simply need more gurus.

One thing that might be making it difficult is the myriad SCMs we're 
trying and the focus on that.  I'd like people to promise to take a look 
at bugs filed against certain sections and, even if you can't triage 
them all, look at them and see if they are a quick fix, and if so, fix 
them.  I'm going to go through the spells used by at least 25% of our 
users according to the ledger personally to at least determine whether 
or not they need to be fixed, so those are the highest priority, but it 
would still be good to have most of these bugs fixed in a couple months 
so that I can spend more time building a test-on-commit build revolver
instead of looking at hundreds of bugs that get caught by prometheus 
every round they don't get fixed.

I know a lot of them are already fixed in test, which is great, but if 
it isn't that's what I'm more concerned about.

Happy bug fixing!

Seth