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  • source: ack (main)
  • version: 3.8.1-1
  • maintainer: Debian Perl Group (archive) (DMD) (LowNMU)
  • uploaders: Axel Beckert [DMD]
  • arch: all
  • std-ver: 4.7.2
  • VCS: Git (Browse, QA)
versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]
[pool directory]
  • o-o-stable: 3.4.0-1
  • oldstable: 3.6.0-1
  • stable: 3.8.1-1
  • testing: 3.8.1-1
  • unstable: 3.8.1-1
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  • 3.4.0-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 3.6.0-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 3.8.1-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
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  • ack (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)
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A new upstream version is available: 3.9.0 high
A new upstream version 3.9.0 is available, you should consider packaging it.
Created: 2025-11-27 Last update: 2026-05-02 09:17
Fails to build during reproducibility testing normal
A package building reproducibly enables third parties to verify that the source matches the distributed binaries. It has been identified that this source package produced different results, failed to build or had other issues in a test environment. Please read about how to improve the situation!
Created: 2026-05-02 Last update: 2026-05-02 05:04
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 3.9.0-1, 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 f74ec823bf988204cef028cce67db50510394267
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Feb 12 18:16:09 2026 +0100

    update changelog, s/PROBLEM/TODO/
    
    test failures are fixed by new patches, review welcome
    
    Gbp-Dch: Ignore

commit 779d820491bbead2774fe6e711665355603d1ad6
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Feb 12 18:12:59 2026 +0100

    Add t_invalid-ackrc_t.patch
    
    to fix a failure in t/invalid-ackrc.t, caused by reading not enough of the
    manpge.

commit 2448776df24af44ff473ab6c78ec3eb16b97766f
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Feb 12 18:09:10 2026 +0100

    Add Revert_Get-rid-of-the-PATH-monkeying.patch.patch.
    
    Set PATH again in t/Util.pm to fix test failures.

commit da5eae7d4a2d8dee76c10f284fc532e458140c1f
Author: Samuel Young <samyoung12788@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 11 16:33:15 2026 -0600

    Update changelog
    
    Gbp-Dch: Ignore

commit 7af4374339d431d282a0536db32add25344113da
Author: Samuel Young <samyoung12788@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 11 16:32:45 2026 -0600

    Remove <<Rules-Requires-Root: no>>, which is the current default

commit 744352a94477fafa1920bf9f80f972f3c3c501a3
Author: Samuel Young <samyoung12788@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 11 16:32:23 2026 -0600

    Remove <<Priority: optional>>, which is the current default

commit 6fc7646feed97e5e6bcf3d1c32f3dfa1d90de99f
Author: Samuel Young <samyoung12788@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 11 16:32:06 2026 -0600

    Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.7.3

commit 654a4d10e474f6182b8f816b5cf42ecba7fdc6d7
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Nov 21 18:31:06 2025 +0100

    d/control: move author marker
    
    Gbp-Dch: Ignore

commit c93c16935a7909a638feb4116fda0d95111ef3c2
Author: Samuel Young <samyoung12788@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Nov 20 19:49:09 2025 -0600

    Update changelog
    
    Gbp-Dch: Ignore

commit 8df4d24353e45c68f038d1b285091df6f93ffdd2
Author: Samuel Young <samyoung12788@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Nov 20 19:48:15 2025 -0600

    Unfuzz no-standalone-test-but-autopkgtests.patch

commit 7df1056a0105a454698f7f518955ca8864d2ca25
Author: Samuel Young <samyoung12788@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Nov 20 19:20:46 2025 -0600

    Update changelog

commit cd3d0b8a646a11cdbcdd6701876f7f3f2ef9ffd4
Merge: ff4b0a2 80ade61
Author: Samuel Young <samyoung12788@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Nov 20 19:16:25 2025 -0600

    Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/3.9.0'
    
    Update to upstream version '3.9.0'
    with Debian dir 4f297d46c4377f1dbe0e1b34ccd905fe1feade44

commit 80ade61f06cc31310b3f2484512dbdf29d7bac75
Author: Samuel Young <samyoung12788@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Nov 20 19:16:25 2025 -0600

    New upstream version 3.9.0

commit ff4b0a2e6cfc33dd964a11cc9c7c535c959205d1
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 20 00:43:27 2025 +0200

    update changelog / add PROBLEM
    
    Gbp-Dch: Ignore

commit 0c8ab6171f81128dc3dda4d5ab58e5a842b2597b
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 20 00:23:52 2025 +0200

    Drop Breaks/Replaces: ack-grep which removed in 2017.

commit b6e803ef84002f99077633e93604ce64767ab95c
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 20 00:21:20 2025 +0200

    Remove trailing whitespace from debian/*.
    
    Gbp-Dch: ignore

commit d7b2580a82864d3fa9b1994afe6c0ce417504fa8
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 20 00:21:19 2025 +0200

    (Re-)sort dependencies
    
    Gbp-Dch: ignore

commit c94ac25c40c54fa023294398efd129c8768e9563
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 20 00:21:08 2025 +0200

    Annotate test-only build dependencies with <!nocheck>.

commit 1a755c4f3c3ae0226449bdd3bca2c3453c73125b
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 20 00:21:02 2025 +0200

    Drop unneeded version constraints from (build) dependencies.

commit 42a76a9fc75ca237466f7369296cdfd8eabff2f7
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 20 00:20:57 2025 +0200

    Reformat debian/control with cme
    
    Gbp-Dch: ignore

commit edf79df58d8871f6b9196425ff98509621c857f1
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 20 00:18:11 2025 +0200

    Unfuzz no-standalone-test-but-autopkgtests.patch.

commit 71029e5ddc43bb2ce1860a750b0b37a480ce8111
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 20 00:13:43 2025 +0200

    Update years of upstream copyright.

commit af4abf272c07dc77f5ec8457a72b91adf4d63eae
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 20 00:13:04 2025 +0200

    Add new test dependency: libyaml-pp-perl.

commit 764332cd297f31374fbd726ef663b1d16d43e3f8
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 20 00:11:42 2025 +0200

    Update debian/changelog
    
    Gbp-Dch: Ignore

commit 2f58ca2a2ba4773d515e5964db1695313a5cd9df
Merge: ecabd8c c0be889
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 20 00:11:41 2025 +0200

    Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/3.8.2'
    
    Update to upstream version '3.8.2'
    with Debian dir 14a8ae652ebc0b26ec67bd68586da71ee0710a23

commit c0be88946db7a9f9f68c5abfde93371a82a184ed
Merge: 9bee572 b611ee5
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 20 00:11:40 2025 +0200

    New upstream version 3.8.2

commit b611ee5c36e208fda503dfc6ff17ef08ce6b3c68
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Sun Apr 6 10:50:13 2025 -0500

    Add v3.8.2 to the garage

commit 51fe1053047b34adbe062469e4a7af6182687a29
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Sun Apr 6 10:47:09 2025 -0500

    Releasing v3.8.2

commit bd4fee7c8bc31de8e2c92af61bb9e1a62eafda69
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Sun Apr 6 10:44:25 2025 -0500

    Explicitly specify t/swamp

commit 6717a364d946c856d6a8b90779b91b39e295848e
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Sun Apr 6 10:28:18 2025 -0500

    Add checks for exitcode 1

commit a9a11fef1a53b94930bd9db59a61113aa9e941b9
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Sat Apr 5 22:40:23 2025 -0500

    Moved anchored to YAML

commit 2911bfa7ca865822366d7cbd45d7769e29f8993c
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Sat Apr 5 22:29:22 2025 -0500

    Moved double-hyphen to yaml

commit 6018c96c682b065fec60713a5b19109661b80c2e
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Sat Apr 5 22:13:54 2025 -0500

    Moving tests to YAML

commit 2f501256b9c656c082637c5c728b4093d58a1492
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Sat Apr 5 21:37:09 2025 -0500

    Move most of -g tests into YAML

commit 3b82e4bf116db29da154c48a3cd42636858cc009
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 23:42:20 2025 -0600

    Converted much of the output to YAML

commit 9aab4778ae6d573f6701e03b53a45791dbaa36d8
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 22:59:47 2025 -0600

    Get rid of the last bits of Barfly

commit 4d495fc32d36cf64516955eae58755398e0bc045
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 22:51:47 2025 -0600

    more tests into YAML

commit b2ec90a28a4aeeb1a6041c00df1dd9ed4a7195d6
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 22:17:34 2025 -0600

    Chipping away at the barfly

commit a678e32a27ffdf3adbce246bf59c3df0dfbed9b9
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 21:42:15 2025 -0600

    Convert ack-i to YAML

commit ab5c7803c58e6ae58a56960812aeb76fc106dd82
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 20:58:48 2025 -0600

    Moving some booleans over to yaml

commit afafa2da65e0f70507454bd67161a9b14b94d6bf
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 20:24:32 2025 -0600

    Move ack-h to yaml

commit c147822fed260752d7075869de6f75f9fd86972f
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 19:59:23 2025 -0600

    Convert ack-m to YAML

commit fca826d5252a61cdb7cc3967e21191c582c2ad8f
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 19:42:13 2025 -0600

    MOre YAMLing

commit b6ee2fa71bf2c92326cf14efa8ed33a76611e434
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 19:31:33 2025 -0600

    Change t/filetype-detection to YAML

commit c88c5aa3c319597e598b93bdc6e3336466276057
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 20 23:08:02 2025 -0600

    Fix indent problem

commit 9484c284c808a90d44c9cb67aad478d3436a8aad
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 20 20:12:08 2025 -0600

    Hoist tests into YAML files

commit feaa4e54940a5f2ba1ec556a526977c1df480e8d
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Sun Jan 19 23:07:03 2025 -0600

    Hoisted tests into ack-c.yaml. Fixed bug where -c would not set exit code correctly.

commit 61d5a5a0215a094bf5bdbbabb7e4804c68000884
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Sun Jan 19 22:29:40 2025 -0600

    Hoist out basic.t into a data file

commit 73fd4636a2b93e654308c0801f2726e192565852
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Sun Jan 19 21:37:23 2025 -0600

    Hoist data into YAML file separate from the code

commit 1b76d217e9fe40198e177d807f3eb93038533d70
Author: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 31 21:27:59 2024 -0600

    Add 3.8.1 to the garage
Created: 2025-04-20 Last update: 2026-04-26 15:34
Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist
The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.4 instead of 4.7.2).
Created: 2025-12-23 Last update: 2026-03-31 15:01
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  • [2025-03-24] ack 3.8.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-03-24] ack 3.8.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-03-21] Accepted ack 3.8.1-1 (source) into unstable (Florian Schlichting)
  • [2023-06-17] ack 3.7.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2023-06-14] Accepted ack 3.7.0-1 (source) into unstable (Axel Beckert)
  • [2022-08-25] ack 3.6.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2022-08-22] Accepted ack 3.6.0-1 (source) into unstable (Axel Beckert)
  • [2021-08-18] ack 3.5.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2021-08-15] Accepted ack 3.5.0-1 (source) into unstable (Axel Beckert)
  • [2020-07-03] ack 3.4.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2020-07-01] Accepted ack 3.4.0-1 (source) into unstable (Axel Beckert)
  • [2020-02-13] ack 3.3.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2020-02-08] Accepted ack 3.3.1-1 (source) into unstable (Axel Beckert)
  • [2019-11-19] ack 3.2.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2019-11-17] Accepted ack 3.2.0-1 (source) into unstable (Axel Beckert)
  • [2019-10-26] ack 3.1.3-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2019-10-24] Accepted ack 3.1.3-1 (source) into unstable (Axel Beckert)
  • [2019-09-10] ack 3.1.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2019-09-07] Accepted ack 3.1.1-1 (source) into unstable (Axel Beckert)
  • [2019-09-03] ack 3.1.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2019-08-31] Accepted ack 3.1.0-1 (source) into unstable (Axel Beckert)
  • [2019-08-05] ack 3.0.2-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2019-07-29] Accepted ack 3.0.2-1 (source) into unstable (Axel Beckert)
  • [2019-04-08] Accepted ack 2.28-1 (source all) into experimental (Axel Beckert)
  • [2018-07-04] ack 2.24-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2018-06-27] Accepted ack 2.24-1 (source all) into unstable (Axel Beckert)
  • [2018-01-04] ack 2.22-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2017-12-30] Accepted ack 2.22-1 (source all) into unstable (Axel Beckert)
  • [2017-12-17] ack 2.20-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2017-12-12] Accepted ack 2.20-1 (source all) into unstable (Axel Beckert)
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  • RC: 0
  • I&N: 0
  • M&W: 1
  • F&P: 0
  • patch: 0
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