Re: Bits from the autopkgtest maintainer

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Martin Pitt writes ("Bits from the autopkgtest maintainer"):
> A lot has happened on the DEP-8 [1]/autopkgtest[2] front in the last months,
> and today's autopkgtest 2.9 upload marks the completion of a lot of
> long-standing feature, usability, and documentation development.

Thanks Martin.  I just wanted to say again how pleased I am to see all
of this development.

> http://ci.debian.net / debci
> ----------------------------
> http://ci.debian.net is a new service that will continuously run package
> tests declared in the DEP-8 format, using autopkgtest. Each package will
> get its test suite run whenever there is a new version of itself, or of
> any package in its dependency chain (except the base system), or
> periodically to account for changes in the base system. The service is
> backed up by a tool called debci[5] which is being prepared to be
> uploaded to the Debian archive, and is in heavy development.

This is particularly exciting.

Thanks,
Ian.