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## page was renamed from ReviewingTips

The page intends to list tips to do a proper review and don't miss common bugs. It can give some hints how to review packages e.g. on [:REVU]

[http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/sponsorship_checklist.html Some suggestions from Debian ]

[http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html Some more suggestions from Debian (this time from the FTP masters instead of a random maintainer)]

Same version, new revision

If you review another revision of an existing package, be sure to have a copy of the old version around.

# get source of new version
mkdir orig; cd orig; apt-get source <package>; cd ..
debdiff orig/<package>_old-version.dsc <package>_new-version.dsc | less

This should give a nice overview of what changed, make notes of what to double check or ask the maintainer.

Thing always to do

Always check

  •  head -n1 debian/changelog  to have the correct release target.

  • If debian/rules changed, ask the maintainer, what he intended to do.

  • Make sure the original tarballs are the same (md5sum(1)).

  • Use interdiff(1) (patchutils package) against the .diff.gz, and debdiff(1) (devscripts package) against your test-built binary packages to examine what you've changed (and ensure it tallies with what you expected to change).

    • Use filterdiff to exclude generated or annoying parts
  • Check if  debian/copyright  is correct, acurate and complete.

Build test

Before building the package, check debian/rules and the Makefile, to be sure the package doesn't install into /usr.

When testing if the package builds, it is useful to run debuild -S again after debuild, and check the diff for files not cleaned during debuild. The only files in the diff after that should be debian/*.

After it's built

If you built the package (PbuilderHowto), install it and

  • check /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.list if everything is in the right place

  • do apt-cache show <package> to check changed dependencies

  • run lintian on the resulting debs.

REVU Reviewing

To faciliate reviewing in [:REVU], you can ask any REVU Admin to do a revu-build as described here: http://revu.tauware.de/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/Revu1Building.

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