The [[https://janitor.debian.net/lintian-fixes/|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.

 * [[https://www.jelmer.uk/debian-janitor.html|Original Announcement]]
 * [[https://salsa.debian.org/jelmer/janitor|Source Code]]
 * [[https://janitor.debian.net/lintian-fixes/merge-proposals|Merge Proposals]]
 * [[https://janitor.debian.net/lintian-fixes/stats|Statistics]]
 * [[https://janitor.debian.net/api/|API]]
 * [[https://wiki.debian.org/Services/DebianJanitor|Service Census]]

Community:

 * #debian-qa or #debian-janitor on irc.oftc.net
 * #debian-janitor:matrix.debian.social

Talks about the Janitor:

 * [[https://debconf20.debconf.org/talks/41-the-debian-janitor/|DebConf 2020]]
 * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs6zGDZNvZw|Linux.Conf.Au 2022]]
 * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2a0VYIPtAQ|Debian Reunion Hamburg 2022]]