Debian Conference 2014

Speaker: Rocky Craig
HP's public and private cloud offering, Helion, gets software reality from an internal Debian derivative called hLinux. We'll cover our constraints, goals, and mechanisms span developers to paying customers, plus a look at the future.

Speaker: Neil Williams
Planning and brain-storming for how to validate Debian. Which parts of Debian need (more) validation? How is that validation going to work? What new software is needed or what changes are needed to existing software to get this running? Who is going to do the work?

Speaker: Antonio Terceiro
The Debian Continuous Integration project, powered by the debci package, aims at constantly running tests against packages uploaded to Debian. In this talk I will present the origins and current state of the project, how it works and how to add test suites for your packages. There will be also a discussion of best practices for as-installed test suites for Debian packages.

Speaker: Dimitri Ledkov
ABI-compliance-checker (acc) is a tool that can be used to catch unintentional abi breakage, as well as to assert ABI stability of a release and validate 3rd party binaries to be compatible with a given release. A debhelper plugin dh_acc is also available, but the adoption has been very slow. A short presentation on what dh_acc is and how one can leverage it will be presented. Presentation will be followed by discussion on how to lower adoption barrier and/or provide abi compliance on a more holistic approach (e.g. do we want an archive-wide service for Debian similar to http://upstream-tracker.org/ ?) Type: BoF, presentation, discussion Tracks: QA, Validation & CI, Packaging and tools

Speaker: Neil Williams
This talk looks at how to extend the existing automated validation architecture recently added to Debian beyond the scope of Linux on ARM to include distribution kernel images, package combinations and installer images.