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source: help2man (main)
version: 1.49.3
maintainer: Brendan O'Dea (DMD)
arch: any
std-ver: 4.6.0
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 1.47.8
oldstable: 1.48.1
stable: 1.49.3
testing: 1.49.3
unstable: 1.49.3

versioned links

1.47.8: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1.48.1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1.49.3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

help2man (10 bugs: 0, 4, 6, 0)

action needed

2 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 2 bugs, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2025-03-03 06:00

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 1.50.1, distribution unstable) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:

commit 8fe02612ad71e237b1cf76054131d5b62e0c0da8
Author: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Feb 3 12:53:05 2025 +1100

    Add --loose-indent option to allow sub-indent on continued lines

commit 87aa6ca2734feeda673a8fafb0244366e9963fc9
Author: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Feb 3 12:50:58 2025 +1100

    Update texi copyright years

commit 1dad592ef8e966b878f174a66858e5cb1a85b920
Author: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Feb 3 12:42:17 2025 +1100

    Use smallexample consistently in @item blocks

commit 24143ab33f98cbec93b8b423ebed7f8cc633c72e
Author: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Feb 3 12:40:51 2025 +1100

    Add Emacs start/end header; add documentlanguage

commit a61ff08697d8273ea9ed0f8ac5584fd64f39d371
Author: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Feb 2 22:49:01 2025 +1100

    Add missing = after --section option

commit 9fd5043f427ae4bd8a9485213c9e65e461a7b1d6
Author: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Feb 2 20:38:58 2025 +1100

    Fix indent of some long args

commit 1b1880b58455ec3dfda40c80b6b86fbd95f4095d
Author: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Feb 2 14:11:49 2025 +1100

    Update copyright years

commit 3e0f79f237f69c4011fc086e40e46863734f64ca
Author: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Feb 2 13:40:27 2025 +1100

     Split old CVS changelog entries to a separate file

commit 4c9f1ade4b1f8146bcabe16eeb200ed26cbaa257
Author: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Feb 2 13:22:16 2025 +1100

    Use \f(CR for monospace text when using groff in troff mode.
    
    Previously CW was used, but this is no longer supported by groff, and it
    seems was _never_ really supported in a portable way.
    
    https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/21239#issuecomment-1645998105

Created: 2025-01-19 Last update: 2025-02-24 20:02

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.2 instead of 4.6.0).

Created: 2022-05-11 Last update: 2025-02-27 13:24

news

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[2022-12-20] help2man 1.49.3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-12-15] Accepted help2man 1.49.3 (source) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2022-04-16] help2man 1.49.2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-04-11] Accepted help2man 1.49.2 (source) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2022-02-20] help2man 1.49.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-02-15] Accepted help2man 1.49.1 (source) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2021-08-27] help2man 1.48.5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-08-22] Accepted help2man 1.48.5 (source) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2021-08-16] help2man 1.48.4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-08-08] Accepted help2man 1.48.4 (source) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2021-03-31] Accepted help2man 1.48.3 (source) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2021-03-03] Accepted help2man 1.48.2 (source) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2021-02-11] help2man 1.48.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-02-06] Accepted help2man 1.48.1 (source) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2021-01-24] help2man 1.47.17 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-19] Accepted help2man 1.47.17 (source) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2020-07-08] help2man 1.47.16 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-07-03] Accepted help2man 1.47.16 (source) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2020-05-02] help2man 1.47.15 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-04-27] Accepted help2man 1.47.15 (source) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2020-04-24] Accepted help2man 1.47.14 (source) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2020-03-20] help2man 1.47.13 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-03-15] Accepted help2man 1.47.13 (source) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2020-01-09] help2man 1.47.12 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-01-04] Accepted help2man 1.47.12 (source) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2019-08-18] help2man 1.47.11 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-08-12] Accepted help2man 1.47.11 (source) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2019-03-23] Accepted help2man 1.47.10 (source i386) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2019-03-18] Accepted help2man 1.47.9 (source i386) into unstable (Brendan O'Dea)
[2018-10-18] help2man 1.47.8 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 10 11
RC: 0
I&N: 3 4
M&W: 7
F&P: 0
patch: 2

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