On 15/11/17 at 16:43 +0100, Steffen Möller wrote: > Hello, > > my QA page or our blend's task page (like > https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio-ngs) regularly informs me about > updates that should be performed to packages I alone maintain or (more > likely) with the help of my blend. The updates are often (but now > always, admittedly) easy to do. > > I would really like to see updates performed in some automated fashion. > Maybe into a different section of Debian like sid-auto? The problem with > that obviously is the missing scrutiny by the human maintainer, so it > cannot go straight into sid. Or can it? Maybe with an auto-created bug > report against the package so it does not auto-migrate into testing? > > A similar situation I see with backports. Most commonly all that is > needed is a recompilation. Would an automation of that process be > acceptable? Would it be acceptable for packages that offer some means of > automated testing and are in backports already?
Hi, FYI: I proposed a GSOC project to play with some aspects of the above ideas: https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects/AutomaticPackagesForEverything Co-mentors welcomed (as well as applicants of course)! Lucas
