Debian CD Tester
Mentor: SteveMcIntyre
Summary: A program to sanity-check Debian CD and DVD images, like lintian/linda do for packages.
Required skills:
Not many, to start with at least
Description:
One of the problems we have in Debian CD and DVD production is effectively testing the images. There are a lot of potential problems with the built images and checking for all of them by hand is time-consuming and error-prone. What would be really useful is a tool that can read ISO image files and validate them.
Issues that we already look for include:
- images being too large
- missing/inconsistent kernel / debian-installer packages
- missing boot files
- broken Packages, Sources or Release files
but as the tool develops I'm sure there are many more that could be added to that list.