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general

source: dhelp (main)
version: 0.6.28
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]

stable: 0.6.27
testing: 0.6.28
unstable: 0.6.28

versioned links

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

binaries

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

action needed

lintian reports 1 error and 5 warnings high

Lintian reports 1 error and 5 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2021-09-06 Last update: 2022-07-30 12:12

Standards version of the package is outdated.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The package is severely out of date with respect to the Debian Policy.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 4.6.1 instead of 3.9.8).

Created: 2018-04-16 Last update: 2022-05-26 00:58

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:

catdvi (#826917)
- Suggests: catdvi
swish++ (#738474)
- Depends: swish++
sgml-base (#802381)
- Depends: sgml-base
ghostscript (#1022718)
- Depends: ghostscript

Created: 2019-11-22 Last update: 2022-12-05 01:33

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 0.6.29, 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 07ecbe82e613fe0a3d24bb5dbb7fabffb04f562a
Merge: 3c90d28 301aa5f
Author: Jelmer Vernooĳ <jelmer@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Nov 23 20:06:15 2022 +0000

    Merge branch 'lintian-fixes' into 'master'
    
    Fix some issues reported by lintian
    
    See merge request debian/dhelp!2

commit 301aa5faf2c70c294baab5a005aa9fb1034b4580
Author: Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>
Date:   Wed Nov 9 01:22:07 2022 +0000

    Fix field name cases in debian/control (VCS-Browser ⇒ Vcs-Browser, VCS-Git ⇒ Vcs-Git).
    
    Changes-By: lintian-brush
    Fixes: lintian: cute-field
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/cute-field.html

commit 3f64912d028a6bd3843e5302e9237185b45069b4
Author: Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>
Date:   Wed Nov 9 01:22:07 2022 +0000

    Trim trailing whitespace.
    
    Changes-By: lintian-brush
    Fixes: lintian: trailing-whitespace
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/trailing-whitespace.html

commit 3ecb7635ab8cc3c02c6f26e3cca99540ef02b940
Author: Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>
Date:   Wed Nov 9 01:22:07 2022 +0000

    Update lintian override info to new format on line 4.
    
    Changes-By: lintian-brush
    Fixes: lintian: mismatched-override
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/mismatched-override.html

commit 3c90d28d289262a6e2c95af6fb4a55d7638f6031
Author: Jelmer Vernooĳ <jelmer@jelmer.uk>
Date:   Wed May 25 14:42:06 2022 +0100

    releasing package dhelp version 0.6.28

commit dc6b49d85269fb2d396938b84d8b4a4fb46bbd6b
Author: Jelmer Vernooĳ <jelmer@jelmer.uk>
Date:   Wed May 25 14:42:06 2022 +0100

    Mention QA Upload.

commit ac933b35191dbcdbdb8559b9e52a80cd26613b62
Merge: 9addd8d 20882c1
Author: Jelmer Vernooĳ <jelmer@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Oct 28 01:48:41 2021 +0000

    Merge branch 'scrub-obsolete' into 'master'
    
    Remove unnecessary constraints
    
    See merge request debian/dhelp!1

commit 20882c17b506c3bfd2f81a1a75b835a00a7f34f7
Author: Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>
Date:   Wed Oct 13 07:58:49 2021 +0000

    Remove constraints unnecessary since buster
    
    * Build-Depends: Drop versioned constraint on cdbs.
    * dhelp: Drop versioned constraint on ucf in Depends.
    
    Changes-By: deb-scrub-obsolete

Created: 2021-10-28 Last update: 2022-12-02 19:13

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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[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)
[2013-09-27] Accepted dhelp 0.6.21+nmu3 (source all) (Julian Gilbey)
[2013-05-30] dhelp 0.6.21+nmu2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2013-05-19] Accepted dhelp 0.6.21+nmu2 (source all) (gregor herrmann)
[2013-05-05] dhelp 0.6.21+nmu1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2013-02-20] dhelp 0.6.20+nmu1 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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version: 0.6.28
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