Hi, [ for those who don't know piuparts: piuparts tests that .deb packages (as used by Debian) handle installation, upgrading, and removal correctly. It does this by creating a minimal Debian installation in a chroot, and installing, upgrading, and removing packages in that environment, and comparing the state of the directory tree before and after. ]
Before the etch release, I did a few piuparts runs on all packages, and filed the resulting bugs. I'd like someone to take over that task for lenny. What needs to be done is: - run installation/removal/purge tests for all packages - run upgrade tests for all packages in etch - make changes to piuparts to fix false positives or reduce the number of failures by ignoring the less critical ones - file all the bugs (many of those are RC) The main problem is that there's currently ~4400 failures for the installation/removal/purge tests. This includes issues about files being added/removed/modified during the test, which are not as critical as the tests where installation simply fails. But still. Skills needed: - python, since piuparts is written in python - understanding of issues piuparts reports (mostly maintainer scripts stuff) - ability to deal with large data sets and semi-automate the process by writing scripts I can of course help by running piuparts on all packages with the needed options, but that's only a small part of the task. If you are interested, the logs for all packages are available on http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2008/04/07/ , and a dd-list of the failing packages is available at http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2008/04/07-piuparts-ddlist.txt . -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
