foreign - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: foreign (main)
version: 0.8.91-1
maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel (DMD)
arch: any
std-ver: 4.7.3
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 0.8.81-1
oldstable: 0.8.84-1
stable: 0.8.90-1
testing: 0.8.91-1
unstable: 0.8.91-1

versioned links

0.8.81-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.8.84-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.8.90-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.8.91-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

r-cran-foreign

action needed

1 new commit 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 9a2c96d446e9f4f9c16bc3f41cf634c06b377331
Author: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Feb 14 07:01:13 2026 -0600

    releasing package foreign version 0.8.91-1

https://salsa.debian.org/api/v4/projects/edd%2Fr-cran-foreign API request failed: 401 Unauthorized at /srv/qa.debian.org/data/vcswatch/vcswatch line 410.

Created: 2026-01-29 Last update: 2026-08-02 17:51

lintian reports 1 warning normal

Lintian reports 1 warning about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2026-01-30 Last update: 2026-01-30 06:30

Standards version of the package is outdated.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 4.7.3).

Created: 2026-03-31 Last update: 2026-03-31 15:01

news

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[2026-02-04] foreign 0.8.91-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-01-29] Accepted foreign 0.8.91-1 (source) into unstable (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
[2025-04-06] foreign 0.8.90-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-03-31] Accepted foreign 0.8.90-1 (source) into unstable (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
[2025-03-30] Accepted foreign 0.8.89-1 (source) into unstable (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
[2025-01-18] foreign 0.8.88-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-01-12] Accepted foreign 0.8.88-1 (source) into unstable (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
[2024-07-13] foreign 0.8.87-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-07-08] Accepted foreign 0.8.87-1 (source) into unstable (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
[2023-12-04] foreign 0.8.86-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-11-29] Accepted foreign 0.8.86-1 (source) into unstable (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
[2023-09-15] foreign 0.8.85-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-09-09] Accepted foreign 0.8.85-1 (source) into unstable (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
[2022-12-11] foreign 0.8.84-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-12-06] Accepted foreign 0.8.84-1 (source) into unstable (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
[2022-10-04] foreign 0.8.83-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-10-04] foreign 0.8.83-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-09-28] Accepted foreign 0.8.83-1 (source) into unstable (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
[2022-01-19] foreign 0.8.82-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-01-13] Accepted foreign 0.8.82-1 (source) into unstable (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
[2020-12-28] foreign 0.8.81-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-12-22] Accepted foreign 0.8.81-1 (source) into unstable (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
[2020-06-03] foreign 0.8.80-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-05-29] foreign 0.8.79-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-05-28] Accepted foreign 0.8.80-1 (source) into unstable (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
[2020-05-18] Accepted foreign 0.8.79-2 (source) into unstable (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
[2020-04-26] Accepted foreign 0.8.79-1 (source) into experimental (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
[2020-03-12] foreign 0.8.76-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-03-05] Accepted foreign 0.8.76-1 (source) into unstable (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
[2020-01-26] foreign 0.8.75-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 0

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