Wiki Page of the Debian QA Group

This is the main wiki page of the Debian Quality Assurance (QA) Team.

• Website: https://qa.debian.org/

• Mailing Lists: https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/

• Public IRC channel: #debian-qa

• How to join and help us?

Some QA related links

• Bugs: qa.debian.org/bugs

• Debian Package Tracker: qa.debian.org/distro-tracker (website)

• Package Tracking System: qa.debian.org/pts (website)

• Package Popularity Contest: https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php

• Package Popularity Graphs: https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php (shows more results)

• Package Removals: qa.debian.org/removals

• Full archive rebuilds coordination: ?qa.debian.org/ArchiveTesting

• Current activities: qa.debian.org/activities

• DDPO (Debian Developer's Package Overview)

• DMD (Debian Maintainer Dashboard)

• "Collaborative QA" pages: qa.debian.org/collab-qa

• MIA Team qa.debian.org/MIATeam

• qa.debian.org/bapase (BAd PAckages SEarch)

• Debcheck (missing Depends, ?PreDepends, Recommends, Suggests, etc.)

• debgraph (cyclic dependencies)

• Dose Tools (archive wide tests, e.g.: non-installable packages, Debian weather, missing conflicts, ... Formerly known as EDOS) (debian-installer dose checks)

• the UltimateDebianDatabase

• http://portfolio.debian.net/ (Portfolio Service, inspired by DDPortfolio)

• Teams/unknown-package (Unknown-Package Task Force)

• RC bugs (release critical bug reports)

• QA/RC usertags (QA/RC bugs usertagging)

• how-can-i-help: (find bugs to work on)

• lintian (package static analysis)

  • lintian-brush (package auto-fixing tool)

  • Debian Janitor's lintian-fixes (package VCS auto-fixing service)

• Config::Model editor: can update debian/ directory files, to fix issues etc

• routine-update: perform common packaging cleanups

• DACA (code static analysis, LoC counting etc)

• Debile (DACA, but slightly less professional, and can do slightly more in a more stupid way.

  • Firehose (Store static testing data in XML, used by Debile)

• DACA2 (cppcheck results)

• bls (checks buildd logs for unstable for irregularities and warnings)

• clang (rebuilding the archive using the clang compiler)

• reproducible.d.n (reproducibly building the archive)

• crossqa.d.n (rebuilding the archive using the cross compilers)

• CD release testing (manual testing of CD image releases)

• u-boot status: (manual testing of u-boot releases on various boards)

• Secure Boot testing (manual testing of Secure Boot)

• piuparts (package installation, upgrading and removal testing suite)

• adequate (checking installed systems for issues)

• Jenkins (continuous integration) - also see Services/jenkins.debian.net

• debci (continuous integration)

  • autopkgtest docs

• openQA (continuous integration)

• LAVA docs (automated hardware and whole-system testing)

• Colis (formal verification of maintainer scripts)

• pkg-abidiff/abipkgdiff (compare ABIs between package versions)

• watch files (watch file checker)

• DUCK (the Debian Url ?ChecKer)

• Repology problems (another URL checker)

• rebuild-all-the-things (check reverse build depends still work)

• check-all-the-things (check packages and upstream code using various tools)

• vcswatch (version control system checker)

• dedup (Debian duplication detector)

• multiarch hints (hints for correcting multi-arch data)

• Clonewise (checks for embedded code copies, not yet setup)

• security tracker (tracks CVE issues)

• Debian font review (font metadata extraction and static analysis)

• Debian derivatives census (QA and info gathering on Debian derivatives)

Missing services

Some QA related services that Debian lacks:

• Library API/ABI tracking (using pkg-abidiff or abipkgdiff from abigail-tools)

• Continuous testing for unused build-depends (cf 890195)

QA events

• DebConf18: 31 90 149 87 171 95

• DebConf17: 2 35 14 103 88 91 34 69 120 31

• DebConf16: 65 24 10 19 66 100 17 135 7 63 55

• DebConf15: 272 377 271 282

• DebConf14: debian-qa track

• 2011-02-??, Paris: wiki page of the meeting (cancelled)

• 2008-11-26 to 2008-11-30, Extremadura: wiki page of the meeting

• 2007-11-28 to 2007-12-02, Extremadura: wiki page of the meeting

• 2006-12-13 to 2006-12-17, Badajoz (Extremadura): Videos, wiki page of the meeting

• 2005-09-09 to 2005-09-11, Darmstadt: Videos and slides, wiki page of the meeting

Other links

• Work-Needing and Prospective Packages: http://wnpp.debian.net

• - by tags: http://wnpp-by-tags.debian.net/

Other distributions

• Upstream C/C++/Java ABI tracking

• Ubuntu

• Fedora

  • automated tests

• Gentoo

• openSUSE (OpenQA)

• Maemo

• Linux Mint

• CentOS

• Review of Linux distros validation