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+# Debian specific testing files
+
+This directory contains two directories which have subsets of the Debian archive
+and versioning information for glibc and debbugs packages, necessary to populate
+the test databases and test various versioning and bug/found/fixed information.
+
+## dist
+
+This directory contains a truncated Debian archive created using `fake_ftpdist`.
+
+To regenerate the contents of this directory, run:
+
+ fake_ftpdist --progress --ftpdists ../../ftp.debian.org/ftp/dists
+
+in this directory, where ftp.debian.org/ftp/dists is a full Debian mirror,
+excluding the pool directories. You'll also need apt-ftparchive installed.
+
+## debinfo
+
+This directory contains debinfo files from glibc and debbugs; to rebuild it run
+this command on bugs-master.debian.org:
+
+ cd /srv/bugs.debian.org/versions/archive/ftp-master;
+ find ./ -mindepth 2 \( -type d -not \( -name 'glibc' -o -name 'debbugs' \) \
+ -prune \) -o -type f \( -iname '*_i386.debinfo' -o -iname '*_amd64.debinfo' \) \
+ \( -ctime -$(( 5 * 365 )) -o -iname 'debbugs*' \) -print0| \
+ xargs -0 tar -zcf ~/glibc_debbugs_debinfo.tar.gz
+
+and unpack the resultant tarball into the `debinfo` directory.