Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

[Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>]

'Dale Scheetz wrote:'
>
>Back to the testing issue: it is easy to get folks interested in
>maintaining packages and hard to get them interested in a system wide
>testing scheme, for fairly obvious reasons. Folks with the resources might
>consider focusing their efforts in these areas.

dpkg -c and dpkg -I before installing as part of the testing procedure
have helped me catch a lot of silly packaging mistakes before
uploading to master!  Maybe debmake or dpkg-build should ask the
package maintainer to check the output of these commands before
uploading a new package.

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