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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]

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oldstable: 3.4.0-1
stable: 3.6.0-1
testing: 3.8.1-1
unstable: 3.8.1-1

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action needed

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: 2025-07-16 Last update: 2025-07-30 23:32

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 3.8.2-1, 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 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: 2025-07-27 21:01

news

[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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