The Debian Janitor

The Debian janitor is a project to automatically make changes to Debian packages.

It finds VCS repositories associated with packages in the Debian archive, runs a set of predefined operations on them, builds the resulting package and then publishes the result (both as a VCS repository and as a Debian package).

The overall goal is to reduce the manual effort that is needed to maintain a Debian package, allowing maintainers to just click Merge in a web UI and allowing users to try out newer upstream versions of packages without the involvement of the maintainer.

• Fixes for common issues reported by Lintian
• Application of multi-arch hints
• Moving orphaned packages to the QA team
• Fresh releases and snapshots:
  • Packages of new upstream releases
  • Packages of new upstream snapshots
• Scrubbing of obsolete dependencies and configuration file entries
• Removal of MIA maintainers from the uploaders field
• Importing of uploads missing from the VCS
• Automatic backporting of packages:
  • from testing to bullseye (oldstable)
  • from testing to bookworm (stable)

By the numbers

• Codebases tracked: 40685
• Runs in queue: 183225
• Active runs: 6
• Successful runs (last 24 h): 939
• Runs absorbed (merged or pushed): 10
• Merge proposals: 12830 merged / 0 applied / 2078 open / 4000 closed / 0 abandoned / 0 rejected

For janitor internal status details, see the cupboard.