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source: biber (main)
version: 2.21-2
maintainer: Debian TeX Task Force (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) [DMD] – Norbert Preining [DMD] – Hilmar Preuße [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: 2.16-1
oldstable: 2.18-1
stable: 2.20-2
testing: 2.21-2
unstable: 2.21-2

versioned links

2.16-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.18-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.20-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.21-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

biber (2 bugs: 0, 2, 0, 0)

action needed

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 2.21-3, 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 bb4345acb514ebaefe80152022914e10cd0b998d
Author: Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>
Date:   Sat Oct 11 23:21:41 2025 +0200

    Use d/upstream/metadata for uscan, remove d/watch file.

Created: 2025-10-12 Last update: 2025-10-29 17:31

debian/patches: 2 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 3 debian patches available in version 2.21-2 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

2 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2025-08-15 08:37

news

[2025-08-18] biber 2.21-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-08-14] Accepted biber 2.21-2 (source) into unstable (Hilmar Preuße)
[2025-07-13] Accepted biber 2.21-1 (source) into experimental (Hilmar Preuße)
[2024-07-06] biber 2.20-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-05-26] Accepted biber 2.20-2 (source) into unstable (Hilmar Preusse)
[2024-04-21] Accepted biber 2.20-1 (source) into experimental (Hilmar Preusse)
[2023-09-05] biber 2.19-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-08-27] Accepted biber 2.19-2 (source) into unstable (Hilmar Preusse)
[2023-06-21] Accepted biber 2.19-1 (source) into experimental (Hilmar Preusse)
[2022-07-28] biber 2.18-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-07-25] Accepted biber 2.18-1 (source) into unstable (Hilmar Preusse)
[2022-03-25] biber 2.17-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-03-22] Accepted biber 2.17-3 (source) into unstable (Hilmar Preusse)
[2022-02-11] biber 2.17-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-02-05] Accepted biber 2.17-2 (source) into unstable (Hilmar Preusse)
[2022-01-28] Accepted biber 2.17-1 (source) into unstable (Hilmar Preusse)
[2022-01-05] biber 2.16-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-12-31] Accepted biber 2.16-2 (source) into unstable (Hilmar Preusse)
[2021-01-20] biber 2.16-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-20] biber 2.16-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-09] Accepted biber 2.16-1 (source) into unstable (Hilmar Preusse)
[2020-08-26] biber 2.15-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-08-21] Accepted biber 2.15-1 (source) into unstable (Norbert Preining)
[2020-08-17] biber 2.14+1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-08-17] biber 2.14+1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-08-12] Accepted biber 2.14+1-1 (source) into unstable (Norbert Preining) (signed by: Hilmar Preusse)
[2020-02-23] biber 2.14-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-02-10] Accepted biber 2.14-1 (source) into unstable (Norbert Preining)
[2019-09-05] biber 2.13-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-08-30] Accepted biber 2.13-1 (source) into unstable (Norbert Preining)

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all: 2
RC: 0
I&N: 2
M&W: 0
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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