News from the Package Tracking System

Work on MIA

Ask Myon & Jeroen.

Latest improvements to DDPO

Ask Myon.

Systematic tests with piuparts

see [http://wiki.debian.org/piuparts http://wiki.debian.org/piuparts]

Search for file conflicts among packages

There are a few scripts at [http://qa.debian.org/~filippo/file_conflicts/] to check packages installing the same files starting from Contents.

Only packages who do not list Conflicts at all are considered, alternatives are not considered so this is a "static" check, automatic checking is being made every four weeks. Logs will be published if needed.

Note that there's room for improvement, tools like edos-debcheck can be used to check for packages that can be effectively installed together.