Debian Conference 2015 The annual Debian developer meeting

It has been 2 years since my last talk about botch at DebConf13. Since then lots of things happened:

• botch has been greatly expanded in functionality as well as in its main principles of operation
• bootstrap.debian.net was born
• with the release of Jessie, source packages with build profiles in their Build-Depends can now be uploaded
• Helmut Grohne started the rebootstrap project

My talk at DebConf two years ago described why analyzing dependency graphs is hard, why being able to automatically bootstrap Debian is useful and what fundamental algorithms botch provides to help with this problem.

This talk will focus on how to make practical use of botch and of bootstrap.debian.net

It will show how botch tools can be concatenated by unix pipes to create meaningful output through different combination of the (now over 50) tools the botch binary package provides.

It will give an overview of the data that is generated by bootstrap.debian.net and how to read and interpret it.

For an introduction to botch, it would probably be useful to have a look at the video of my talk from DebConf13: http://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/984.en.html

URLs: https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/debian-bootstrap/botch http://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/984.en.html https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/debian-bootstrap/botch/wikis/home https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBootstrap https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec http://bootstrap.debian.net/

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