Bug#1136791: adequate: update description and mention from package testing section

Holger Levsen <[email protected]> Tue, 19 May 2026 10:24:08 +0000

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On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 12:41:06AM +0200, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote:
> here's a patch to update the section on adequate, and mention it from
> "Testing a package".

I believe there are unrelated & possibly unwanted in the patch:

> From c7628825acbcd3bd9e727b8193f3151938b6e4a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas" <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 00:32:14 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] pkgs, tools: update adequate section, and recommend it from
>  "Testing the package"
> 
> ---
>  source/pkgs.rst  |  4 ++++
>  source/tools.rst | 12 ++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
...
> diff --git a/source/tools.rst b/source/tools.rst
> index db19fd8..b68d68c 100644
> --- a/source/tools.rst
> +++ b/source/tools.rst
> --  ``/bin`` and ``/sbin`` binaries requiring ``/usr/lib`` libraries
> --  license conflicts
> +-  invalid user/group values in systemd/D-Bus/sysvinit files.

(only kept the lines here which I believe are wrong.)


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