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general

source: man-db (main)
version: 2.13.1-1
maintainer: Colin Watson (DMD) (LowNMU)
arch: any
std-ver: 3.9.8
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 2.9.4-2
oldstable: 2.11.2-2
stable: 2.13.1-1
testing: 2.13.1-1
unstable: 2.13.1-1

versioned links

2.9.4-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.11.2-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.13.1-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

man-db (51 bugs: 0, 32, 19, 0)

action needed

Problems while searching for a new upstream version high

uscan had problems while searching for a new upstream version:

In watchfile debian/watch, reading webpage
  https://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/man-db/ failed: 500 Can't connect to download.savannah.nongnu.org:443 (Connection timed out)

Created: 2025-11-22 Last update: 2025-11-23 11:30

Standards version of the package is outdated. high

The package is severely out of date with respect to the Debian Policy. The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.2 instead of 3.9.8).

Created: 2017-11-24 Last update: 2025-05-02 19:01

version in VCS is newer than in repository, is it time to upload? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version 2.13.1-2, distribution UNRELEASED) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:

commit a8aa17df2fa7dbb6ef573137f2f48905518fce2d
Author: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Nov 23 11:50:02 2025 +0000

    Drop "Rules-Requires-Root: no", default as of dpkg-dev 1.22.13

commit 65495109dba469adad86ce09d4f7ff443e023538
Author: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 26 14:50:39 2025 +0000

    debputy reformat

Created: 2025-10-26 Last update: 2025-11-23 13:32

lintian reports 1 warning normal

Lintian reports 1 warning about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-05-03 Last update: 2025-05-03 04:31

news

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[2025-05-12] man-db 2.13.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-05-02] Accepted man-db 2.13.1-1 (source) into unstable (Colin Watson)
[2024-08-31] man-db 2.13.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-08-29] Accepted man-db 2.13.0-1 (source) into unstable (Colin Watson)
[2024-08-12] man-db 2.12.1-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-08-06] Accepted man-db 2.12.1-3 (source) into unstable (Colin Watson)
[2024-06-17] man-db 2.12.1-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-06-05] Accepted man-db 2.12.1-2 (source) into unstable (Colin Watson)
[2024-05-03] man-db 2.12.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-04-05] Accepted man-db 2.12.1-1 (source) into unstable (Colin Watson)
[2024-03-29] Accepted man-db 2.12.0-4 (source) into unstable (Colin Watson)
[2024-02-01] Accepted man-db 2.8.5-2+deb10u1 (source) into oldoldstable (Colin Watson)
[2024-01-16] man-db 2.12.0-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-01-11] Accepted man-db 2.12.0-3 (source) into unstable (Colin Watson)
[2024-01-07] Accepted man-db 2.12.0-2 (source) into experimental (Colin Watson)
[2023-11-14] man-db 2.12.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-09-23] Accepted man-db 2.12.0-1 (source) into unstable (Colin Watson)
[2023-07-29] man-db 2.11.2-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-07-24] Accepted man-db 2.11.2-3 (source) into unstable (Colin Watson)
[2023-03-16] man-db 2.11.2-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-03-12] Accepted man-db 2.11.2-2 (source) into unstable (Colin Watson)
[2023-01-17] man-db 2.11.2-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-01-08] Accepted man-db 2.11.2-1 (source) into unstable (Colin Watson)
[2022-11-21] man-db 2.11.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-11-15] Accepted man-db 2.11.1-1 (source) into unstable (Colin Watson)
[2022-10-21] man-db 2.11.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-10-15] Accepted man-db 2.11.0-1 (source) into unstable (Colin Watson)
[2022-09-10] man-db 2.10.2-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-09-04] Accepted man-db 2.10.2-3 (source) into unstable (Colin Watson)
[2022-08-24] man-db 2.10.2-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 50 51
RC: 0
I&N: 32
M&W: 18 19
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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