Holger Levsen sent some
bits
from the piuparts maintainers announcing that piuparts is again
maintained by a team and they're receiving various patches and other
contributions.
piuparts is an important tool
for Quality Assurance within Debian as it runs various tests in order to
verify that packages can be installed, upgraded and removed without
problems. Tests results are publicly available on the
piuparts website, where they are
updated on a daily basis.
Holger urged maintainers to regularly check their personal status pages
on piuparts in order to fix issues related to their packages.
In addition to their regular tests, since December 2011,
the piuparts maintainers have been testing the
upgrade of
individual packages from "Squeeze" to "Wheezy": 158
packages failed the test (and another 130 failed it due to dependencies)
while 33,708 passed it.