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Debian Janitor: 60k Lintian Issues Automatically Fixed

by @ctrlsoft jelmer.uk published 2020-08-224 min read

The Debian Janitor is an automated system that commits fixes for (minor) issues in Debian packages that can be fixed by software. It gradually started proposing merges in early December. The first set of changes sent out ran lintian-brush on sid packages maintained in Git. This post is part of a series about the…

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