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general

source: dhelp (main)
version: 0.6.31
maintainer: Debian QA Group (DMD)
arch: all
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]

oldstable: 0.6.27
stable: 0.6.30
testing: 0.6.31
unstable: 0.6.31

versioned links

0.6.27: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.6.30: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.6.31: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

dhelp (13 bugs: 0, 8, 5, 0)

action needed

Standards version of the package is outdated.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The package is severely out of date with respect to the Debian Policy.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: 2018-04-16 Last update: 2025-05-05 05:33

AppStream hints: 1 error and 1 warning high

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

dhelp: 1 error and 1 warning

You should get rid of them to provide more metadata about this software.

Created: 2018-06-04 Last update: 2022-01-21 06:04

Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal

The packages that dhelp depends on which need a new maintainer are:

cdbs (#1026085)
- Build-Depends: cdbs
catdvi (#826917)
- Suggests: catdvi
swish++ (#738474)
- Depends: swish++
- Build-Depends: swish++
info2www (#1043190)
- Suggests: info2www

Created: 2019-11-22 Last update: 2025-07-22 00:30

4 new commits since last upload, is it time to release? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have new commits in its VCS but has not yet updated debian/changelog. You should consider updating the Debian changelog and uploading this new version into the archive.

Here are the relevant commit logs:

commit 4862cc6fddcf583c847be39f105c584997d22ce7
Merge: bb21a54 33f1129
Author: Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>
Date:   Sun May 4 22:57:16 2025 +0200

    Declare fast forward from 0.6.30
    
    [dgit --overwrite]

commit bb21a54edad1bbfe797c0000ee6f5e80fd622c3e
Author: Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke@debian.org>
Date:   Sun May 4 22:57:31 2025 +0200

    Update changelog for 0.6.31 release

commit 33f11295c9fbc9e84fdb96c06cafbcf5987b4170
Merge: 884de91 13d5790
Author: Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 2 15:20:10 2023 -0300

    Record dhelp (0.6.30) in archive suite sid

commit 13d57903d31093e7bdf40d161b54790d8de76c1d
Author: Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 2 15:20:10 2023 -0300

    dhelp (0.6.30) unstable; urgency=medium
    
      * QA upload.
      * Bump dependency on ruby-dbm.
        This is done to ensure that the real package (from scr:ruby-dbm) is
        pulled, instead of settling for the version provided by libruby3.0.
        (Closes: #1027710)
    
    [dgit import package dhelp 0.6.30]

Created: 2025-05-04 Last update: 2025-07-21 00:01

lintian reports 4 warnings normal

Lintian reports 4 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2023-01-03 Last update: 2023-01-03 07:02

O: This package has been orphaned and needs a maintainer. normal

This package has been orphaned. This means that it does not have a real maintainer at the moment. Please consider adopting this package if you are interested in it. Please see bug number #824977 for more information.

Created: 2017-12-02 Last update: 2017-12-02 00:25

news

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[2025-05-15] dhelp 0.6.31 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-05-04] Accepted dhelp 0.6.31 (source) into unstable (Jochen Sprickerhof)
[2023-01-05] dhelp 0.6.30 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-01-02] Accepted dhelp 0.6.30 (source) into unstable (Antonio Terceiro)
[2022-12-31] Accepted dhelp 0.6.29 (source) into unstable (Antonio Terceiro)
[2022-05-31] dhelp 0.6.28 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-05-25] Accepted dhelp 0.6.28 (source) into unstable (Jelmer Vernooĳ) (signed by: Jelmer Vernooij)
[2021-07-21] dhelp 0.6.27 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-07-13] Accepted dhelp 0.6.27 (source) into unstable (Håvard Flaget Aasen) (signed by: Adam Borowski)
[2019-07-09] dhelp 0.6.26 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-06-28] dhelp REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-06-24] Accepted dhelp 0.6.26 (source) into unstable (Nicholas Guriev) (signed by: Andrej Shadura)
[2018-04-23] dhelp 0.6.25 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-04-17] Accepted dhelp 0.6.25 (source) into unstable (Iain Lane)
[2017-06-20] dhelp 0.6.24 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-04-29] Accepted dhelp 0.6.24 (source) into unstable (Nicholas Guriev) (signed by: Gianfranco Costamagna)
[2017-04-27] Accepted dhelp 0.6.23 (source) into unstable (Nicholas Guriev) (signed by: Gianfranco Costamagna)
[2017-04-26] Accepted dhelp 0.6.22 (source) into unstable (Nicholas Guriev) (signed by: Adam Borowski)
[2017-01-14] dhelp REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-12-29] dhelp 0.6.21+nmu7 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-12-07] Accepted dhelp 0.6.21+nmu7 (source) into unstable (Ondřej Surý)
[2015-08-22] dhelp REMOVED from testing (Britney)
[2014-12-23] dhelp 0.6.21+nmu6 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2014-12-17] Accepted dhelp 0.6.21+nmu6 (source all) into unstable (gregor herrmann)
[2014-10-28] dhelp 0.6.21+nmu5 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2014-10-17] Accepted dhelp 0.6.21+nmu5 (source all) into unstable (Helge Kreutzmann) (signed by: Tobias Quathamer)
[2014-05-27] dhelp 0.6.21+nmu4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2014-05-21] Accepted dhelp 0.6.21+nmu4 (source all) (David Suárez) (signed by: Cédric Boutillier)
[2013-12-15] dhelp REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2013-10-09] dhelp 0.6.21+nmu3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 13
RC: 0
I&N: 8
M&W: 5
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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ubuntu

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version: 0.6.31
3 bugs