Continuing the #newinjessie game:
There are a number of development and QA tools that are new in jessie:
- autorevision: store VCS meta-data in your release tarballs and use it during build
- git-remote-bzr: bidirectional interaction with Bzr repositories for git users
- git-remote-hg: bidirectional interaction with Mercurial repositories for git users
- corekeeper: dump core files when ELF programs crash and send you mail
- adequate: check installed Debian packages for various issues
- duck: check that the URLs in your Debian package are still alive
- codespell: search your code for spelling errors and fix them
- iwyu: include only the headers you use to reduce compilation time
- clang-modernize: modernise your C++ code to use C++11
- shellcheck: check shell scripts for potential bugs
- bashate: check shell scripts for stylistic issues
- libb-lint-perl: check Perl code for potential bugs and style issues
- epubcheck: validate your ePub docs against the standard
- i18nspector: check the work of translators for common issues