Hi Hendrik,

Hendrik Boom writes:

> It looks as if about a week from now I'll be at a debian bug-squashing
> party near where I live as a complete distro-level-developer newbie.
>
> It seemed reasonable because Debian and Devuan will mostly have the
> same bugs.
>
> I expect to deal with bugs that aren't involved with systemd, since I
> don't have systemd on my debian derived OS.
>
> Now I looked at some of the Debian bug-squashing information, and it
> involves utilities like bts, and others that deal with the Debian
> package library.
>
> Now I suppose that these have been adapted to deal with the Devuan
> equivalents ... Is there an easy way to adjust them to deal with Debian
> during the bug-squashing party? Or is the simlest thing just to
> install Debian dual-boot on a spare partition. I have the space.

The bts utility is part of the devscripts package (according to a quick
`apt-file search bin/bts`) and I cannot find any devscripts package with
`devuan` in its version on my laptop (`apt-cache policy devscripts`).

The only package in this area that I'm aware has been forked for Devuan
is reportbug but that claims that you can specify the BTS to report to
via the --bts or -B option.

So I think you can just use your Devuan system. If in doubt, just check
using apt-file and apt-cache like I did for any other utilities.

Hope this helps,
--
Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2            FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27
 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13  F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9
 Support Free Software                        https://my.fsf.org/donate
 Join the Free Software Foundation              https://my.fsf.org/join