The debian-private mailing list leak, part 1. Volunteers have complained about Blackmail. Lynchings. Character assassination. Defamation. Cyberbullying. Volunteers who gave many years of their lives are picked out at random for cruel social experiments. The former DPL's girlfriend Molly de Blanc is given volunteers to experiment on for her crazy talks. These volunteers never consented to be used like lab rats. We don't either. debian-private can no longer be a safe space for the cabal. Let these monsters have nowhere to hide. Volunteers are not disposable. We stand with the victims.

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Re: [RFC] Restructuring of the Debian Project



Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de> writes:

> 
> >>>>> Kai Henningsen writes:
> 
> >> 2. They come with GPL-ed validation suite software.
> 
> > Write some.
> 
> No need to do so, there already is a generic validation suite for
> which you only need to supply the rules.  It's called DejaGNU and we
> do even distribute it as part of Debian.  We just don't use it, that's
> all.

We distribute the validation suite, but many of the packages we
distribute do not come with a complete validation suite.  findutils,
which I maintain, only tests xargs.  The most recent serious bug in
findutils was a segmentation violation in xargs, even though xargs
passes the test suite.  I often, though not always, run the xargs test
suite before release a new version of findutils.  In the findutils
package, there isn't a test suite for find, locate, or updatedb.
Creating the validation suite for a given tool is not a trivial task.
It may involve reading the POSIX and other standards documentation.


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Kevin Dalley
kevin@aimnet.com