On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 02:42:02PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> 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.
>

Hi Henrik,

we have not forked devscripts officially (I have a version with
several patches, but it's not complete). The main reason is that some
of the scripts in devscripts rely on pieces of infrastructure that
differ between Debian and Devuan or are absent altogether in
Devuan.

I guess you should be fine by using devscripts to fix debian bugs. You
can also use the Devuan version of reportbug, either by setting the
"bts" variable in your reportbug config file, or by giving the "--bts
debian" argument to it.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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