Re: Status of Debian package utility tester
On 2013-04-05 13:37, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 11:56:04AM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> as I've posted some minutes ago I'm searching to generate the files in debian/
>> and remembered the DPU project[1]. It took me some time to find the blogpost
>> again and thus the name of the project. It seems the project is stalled since
>> august and it has not yet been uploaded to the archive?
>
> Yeah. It got to the point where there was enough there to start writing
> tests to help replace Lintian's, but never got around to actually
> porting them over.
>
> It's actually not a bad tool, if you want to hack on it, I'll move it
> off my github and onto a git.d.o repo
It is already on git.d.o:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/dpu-test-framework.git
In sync with your github repo.
> -- I'd be happy to help (and perhaps nthykier as well)
>
Indeed, I am still interested in this project.
>>
>> [1] http://blog.pault.ag/post/30552124986/a-bit-more-on-dpu
>>
>> I'll have a look whether its useful for my needs.
>
> Yep! I'd be happy to help with it, if it's got some problems (which I
> bet it does, we never actually put it to real use)
> [...]
>
~Niels
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