The janitor is trying to help make packaging less toilsome:
- The janitor is trying to automatically migrate people to newer versions of debhelper, reducing the number of different build system variants.
- The janitor attempts to perform validation of all the long, complex, changing rules for you, so if you meet their requirements then it will propose an upgrade. If the janitor can automatically bring you into compliance with the rules, it will, otherwise it'll leave you upgraded to the step that requires a human to intervene. You can manually upgrade it one step, and then the janitor will loop back around and do the rest for you.
- The janitor will also fix suboptimal, or unnecessary packaging changes and improve them for you too, hopefully leaving you with a much smaller, simpler packaging system that's easier to reason about.
- The janitor is trying to automatically migrate people to newer versions of debhelper, reducing the number of different build system variants.
- The janitor attempts to perform validation of all the long, complex, changing rules for you, so if you meet their requirements then it will propose an upgrade. If the janitor can automatically bring you into compliance with the rules, it will, otherwise it'll leave you upgraded to the step that requires a human to intervene. You can manually upgrade it one step, and then the janitor will loop back around and do the rest for you.
- The janitor will also fix suboptimal, or unnecessary packaging changes and improve them for you too, hopefully leaving you with a much smaller, simpler packaging system that's easier to reason about.