Many packaging tasks can be automated, and are likely to succeed without any human intervention: - creating a backport for Debian stable from a packaging in Debian testing - upgrading a package to a newer upstream version - packaging a simple Perl, Python or Ruby using one of the tools listed on AutomaticPackagingTools However, doing those tasks still require Debian packaging knowledge. As a step towards Debian's world domination, it would be great if we could automate those tasks and provide ready-to-use Debian packages, so that users are left with a deb-based alternative when there are no packages for their needs in Debian itself, instead of using upstream packages or building from source. Autodeb is a project that tries to automatically create and distribute package updates and backports. This talk will present the current status of the projects, statistics, and takeaways.
Speakers: Alexandre Viau