To be honest, this sounds more like a >/dev/null solution to me. The underlying issue is that debian packages are out of date, and that the repos (ppas) containing them are heavily unmaintained up to the point were decades old libraries are required even when upstream has moved on.
Why not go with the approach to try and fix it upstream where it belongs instead of maintaining a set of fixers downstream - which will likely not work anymore in the forseeable future?
I mean, if you start building an auto-fixer pipeline for an auto-linted error... then is that error actually valid in the first place? Probably not.
The reason why a lot of developers these days have moved to Arch's/AUR's ecosystem is not the amount of available packages (they probably are around the same) - It's integration of packaging with upstream.
Every time a package upstream is out-of-date or not working, you'll likely find an Arch user trying to fix it with a pull request in the git repos.
The debian janitor should've tried to automate pull requests rather than trying to automate self-hosted fixes downstream without letting upstream even know that their packages are wrongly formatted.
But that's just my two cents, maintained a lot of PPAs in the past for both Debian and Ubuntu and have moved on to Arch/Manjaro, because I ain't got no time for that anymore.
Why not go with the approach to try and fix it upstream where it belongs instead of maintaining a set of fixers downstream - which will likely not work anymore in the forseeable future?
I mean, if you start building an auto-fixer pipeline for an auto-linted error... then is that error actually valid in the first place? Probably not.
The reason why a lot of developers these days have moved to Arch's/AUR's ecosystem is not the amount of available packages (they probably are around the same) - It's integration of packaging with upstream.
Every time a package upstream is out-of-date or not working, you'll likely find an Arch user trying to fix it with a pull request in the git repos.
The debian janitor should've tried to automate pull requests rather than trying to automate self-hosted fixes downstream without letting upstream even know that their packages are wrongly formatted.
But that's just my two cents, maintained a lot of PPAs in the past for both Debian and Ubuntu and have moved on to Arch/Manjaro, because I ain't got no time for that anymore.