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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
Old 06-06-2017
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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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

module::cpants::kwalitee::distros

Module::CPANTS::Kwalitee::Distros(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		    Module::CPANTS::Kwalitee::Distros(3pm)

NAME

       Module::CPANTS::Kwalitee::Distros - Information retrieved from the various Linux and other distributions

SYNOPSIS

       The metrics here are based on data provided by the various downstream packaging systems.

DESCRIPTION

   Methods
       order

       Defines the order in which Kwalitee tests should be run.

       analyse

       kwalitee_indicators

       Returns the Kwalitee Indicators datastructure.

       o   distributed_by_debian

	   True if the module (package) is repackaged by the Debian-Perl team and you can install it using the package management system of
	   Debian.

       o   latest_version_distributed_by_debian

	   True if the latest version of the module (package) is repackaged by Debian

       o   has_no_bugs_reported_in_debian

	   True for if the module is distributed by Debian and no bugs were reported.

       o   has_no_patches_in_debian

	   True for if the module is distributed by Debian and no patches applied.

Caveats
       CPAN_dist, the name of CPAN distribution is inferred from the download location, for Debian packages. It works 99% of the time, but it is
       not completely reliable.  If it fails to detect something, it will spit out the known download location.

       CPAN_vers, the version number reported by Debian is inferred from the debian version.  This fails a lot, since Debian has a mechanism for
       "unmangling" upstream versions which is non-reversible. We have to use that many times to fix versioning problems, and those packages will
       show a different version (e.g. 1.080 vs 1.80)

       The first problem is something the Debian people like to solve by adding metadata to the packages, for many other useful stuff (like
       automatic upstream bug tracking and handling). About the second... well, it's a difficult one.

       CPANTS does not yet handle the second issue.

LINKS

       Basic homepage: http://packages.debian.org/src:$pkgname

       Detalied homepage: http://packages.qa.debian.org/$pkgname

       Bugs report: http://bugs.debian.org/src:$pkgname

       Public SVN repository: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/$pkg

       From that last URL, you might be interested in the debian/ and debian/patches subdirectories.

SEE ALSO

       Module::CPANTS::Analyse

AUTHOR

       Thomas Klausner <https://metacpan.org/author/domm> and Gabor Szabo <https://metacpan.org/author/szabgab> with the help of Martin Ferrari
       and the Debian Perl packaging team <http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright X 2003X2009 Thomas Klausner <https://metacpan.org/author/domm>

       Copyright X 2006X2008 Gabor Szabo <https://metacpan.org/author/szabgab>

       You may use and distribute this module according to the same terms that Perl is distributed under.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-06-08				    Module::CPANTS::Kwalitee::Distros(3pm)
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