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:
- 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:
For janitor internal status details, see the cupboard.