Autodeb: Automatic Packages for Everything
Channel: DebConf Videos
Date: 2018-08-01

by Alexandre Viau

At: DebConf18
https://debconf18.debconf.org/talks/49-autodeb-automatic-packages-for-everything/

Many packaging tasks can be automated, and are likely to succeed without any human intervention:

 - creating a backport for Debian stable from a packaging in Debian testing
 - upgrading a package to a newer upstream version
 - packaging a simple Perl, Python or Ruby using one of the tools listed on AutomaticPackagingTools

However, doing those tasks still require Debian packaging knowledge.

As a step towards Debian's world domination, it would be great if we could automate those tasks and provide ready-to-use Debian packages, so that users are left with a deb-based alternative when there are no packages for their needs in Debian itself, instead of using upstream packages or building from source.

Autodeb is a project that tries to automatically create and distribute package updates and backports.

This talk will present the current status of the projects, statistics, and takeaways.

Room: Yushan (玉山)
Scheduled start: 2018-07-31 16:30:00