Re: request for review: Debian packaging docs for coding agents

On Fri, May 01, 2026 at 06:01:46AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>I wanted to share an agent skill I'm using to build Debian packages:
>
>https://github.com/cosgroveb/debian-packaging-agent-skill

[...]

>Please check for:
>
>- advice that is wrong
>- advice that would produce broken packages
>- anything that should be required before asking a human to review output
>- language-specific traps, especially Rust/debcargo and Go

I've only checked debian-packaging-main.md and debian-packaging-python.md.
My biggest problem is that it never talks about sbuild or comparable tools 
and so the produced packages aren't guaranteed to have correct B-D or be 
suitable for inclusion into the archive. I'm also not sure whether modern 
LLMs indeed need to be taught what is debian/control and if they do then 
only including a basic subset of packaging docs and e.g. requesting gbp but 
never talking what is gbp or how to use it doesn't seem useful except for 
very simple packages.

-- 
WBR, wRAR

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