Autopkgtests is a technology meant to test packages automatically in a "unit testing" fashion. With this tech you can, for instance, run the testsuite of the software packaged or if the package is a library, check if the headers are ok.

Quick HOWTO to run autopkgtests against -proposed or our staging PPA's

Running autopkgtests for our packaging

How we are using autopkgtests in Kubuntu:

Autopkgtests in Kubuntu

Working notes with some stop-in-gap, cheap solutions which probably should be replaced with something better:

Working notes

Links:

• http://packaging.ubuntu.com/html/auto-pkg-test.html
• https://people.debian.org/~mpitt/autopkgtest/README.running-tests.html
• https://people.debian.org/~mpitt/autopkgtest/README.package-tests.html