Re: tooling to perform updates to many packages in a team?

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Tue, 2025-07-29 at 09:35:15 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> I will be looking into doing some mass updates/cleanup in the context of
> the Ruby team, and was wondering: what are the useful tools in that
> case?
> 
> I'm aware of:
> - the salsa CLI tool (in devscripts)
> - the glab package
> - mr (multi repo)
> - lintian-brush
> 
> What are teams typically using?

In addition to what has also been said elsethread, there is also:

  - cme
  - routine-update (AFAIK used by the Med team at least)
  - pkg-perl-tools

The Go Team also has/had a service which could be executed to do mass
updates from the server side.

  <https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/infra/pkg-go-tools>

Thanks,
Guillem