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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Getting started with fixing bugs for Linux Post 302998754 by drl on Tuesday 6th of June 2017 09:38:44 PM

06-06-2017

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Hi.

If you are not familiar with some *nix tools, you will need to pick up some practice with vi/emacs, and make at the least. You may also need to become familiar with source control: check out/check-in.

I was a: Member of the Process Engineering group chartered with defining, realizing, and maintaining the processes and practices associated with the software lifecycle at Caspian.

I did course development and training for that general process: nightly builds, release packaging, etc. Development, including design and debugging, was not a trivial activity. I also did training in shell, perl, regular expressions, etc.

At that shop each developer checked out a piece of the system and worked on it. When it was ready to go, the code was checked in. The nightly build and tests were done on a separate hardware system based on the current state of the system with every developer's contribution. Extensive records were kept for bug tracking.

If you are interested in diving deep into Linux, you might appreciate the structure of Debian development -- I use Debian for my main activities currently.

You can read about Debian maintenance and development -- all done by volunteers world-wide -- at Debian Developer's Reference

It is also not a trivial activity.

You could certainly do some, perhaps even much, of this kind of work on your own in an isolated virtual system. For example, suppose you wanted to work on utility ls for your own purposes. You easily could get the source, modify it, and test it in a VM. However, working on real bugs, for example, might be far more interesting

Best wishes ... cheers, drl

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deb-origin

deb-origin(5)							      Debian							     deb-origin(5)

NAME

       deb-origin - Vendor-specific information files

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/dpkg/origins/filename

DESCRIPTION

       The  files  in  /etc/dpkg/origins can provide information about various vendors who are providing Debian packages. They contain a number of
       fields, or comments when the line starts with '#'.  Each field begins with a tag, such as Vendor or Parent, followed by	a  colon  and  the
       body  of the field. Fields are delimited only by field tags. In other words, field text may be multiple lines in length, but the tools will
       join lines when processing the body of the field.

REQUIRED FIELDS

       Vendor: vendor-name
	      The value of this field determines the vendor name.

OPTIONAL FIELDS

       Vendor-URL: vendor-url
	      The value of this field determines the vendor URL.

       Bugs: bug-url
	      The value of this field determines the type and address of the bug tracking system used by this vendor. It can be a mailto URL or  a
	      debbugs URL (e.g., debbugs://bugs.debian.org/).

       Parent: vendor-name
	      The value of this field determines the vendor name of the vendor that this vendor derives from.

EXAMPLE

       Vendor: Debian
       Vendor-URL: http://www.debian.org/
       Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org

SEE ALSO

       dpkg-vendor(1)

Debian Project							    2011-11-10							     deb-origin(5)