Quoting Julien Puydt (2021-11-21 15:07:52)
> For my packages I don't have personal tools, only a personal routine:
> 
> (1) "lintian -I" to get things right (sometimes adding a --pedantic
> when I'm feeling in the mood) ;
> 
> (2) build the source package in a schroot-sbuild-unstable to check I
> got deps right after the initial round of ;
> 
> (3) if it's a sensitive package (fragile and important rdeps I know
> about), I put the binary packages in my local repo, and try to build a
> random few of the reverse-deps by hand with them ;
> 
> (4) upload.
> 
> This isn't perfect: I uploaded a newer node-typescript a few weeks ago
> and it broke ts-node (which obviously wasn't in the list of rdeps I had
> checked). I can't update it to a newer upstream which would fix the
> issue because it has new deps (or deps with newer versions), so I'm
> mostly waiting for those to clear before I can finally fix it.

Before I upload, I do a debdiff against previous package, which catches 
some classes of mistakes (e.g. changes to files installed, or to control 
file hints).


 - Jonas

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