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source: libnews-scan-perl (main)
version: 0.53-4.1
maintainer: Debian Perl Group (archive) (DMD) (LowNMU)
uploaders: Florian Schlichting [DMD]
arch: all
std-ver: 4.1.5
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 0.53-4
oldstable: 0.53-4.1
stable: 0.53-4.1
testing: 0.53-4.1
unstable: 0.53-4.1

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0.53-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.53-4.1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

libnews-scan-perl

action needed

Problems while searching for a new upstream version high

uscan had problems while searching for a new upstream version:

In debian/watch no matching files for watch line
  https://metacpan.org/release/News-Scan   .*/News-Scan-v?(\d[\d.-]+)\.(?:tar(?:\.gz|\.bz2)?|tgz|zip)$

Created: 2025-06-28 Last update: 2025-07-02 07:33

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 0.53-5, 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 0babb11ef1fa44a12e7e556b747454a2d9ebfe01
Author: Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>
Date:   Sat Sep 11 05:52:14 2021 +0000

    Bump debhelper from old 12 to 13.
    
    Changes-By: lintian-brush
    Fixes: lintian: package-uses-old-debhelper-compat-version
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-uses-old-debhelper-compat-version.html

commit d522d16b20340a44124fd315f86ad0acdbe61977
Merge: 79a2466 29fb8b2
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Jan 9 03:49:22 2021 +0100

    Merge tag 'debian/0.53-4.1'
    
    Debian release 0.53-4.1

commit 79a2466bcd7116ba1ea50e82f3d44320ce7a9965
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Feb 22 16:43:12 2020 +0100

    update changelog
    
    Gbp-Dch: Ignore

commit 7265e4848bb3e9dbfd1eedc650d6cacd21603a8a
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Feb 22 16:43:12 2020 +0100

    debian/watch: use uscan version 4.

commit 756557eddf3fb10b5e4e1da22886b966f0db4d8e
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Dec 15 23:39:22 2019 +0100

    update changelog
    
    Gbp-Dch: Ignore

commit cd776bef887f41186cae71b5d175a878a763abdd
Merge: a15a0cd bcb5514
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Dec 15 22:38:09 2019 +0000

    Merge branch 'lintian-fixes' into 'master'
    
    Fix some issues reported by lintian
    
    See merge request perl-team/modules/packages/libnews-scan-perl!1

commit bcb5514b04f2c2687b8cb051f0c443352e01010b
Author: Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>
Date:   Sat Dec 14 05:17:52 2019 +0000

    Remove obsolete fields Contact, Name from debian/upstream/metadata (already present in machine-readable debian/copyright).

commit b66a0652268e22f6a7e7c9eb58cf6bb8d1ba19da
Author: Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>
Date:   Sat Dec 14 05:17:17 2019 +0000

    Set debhelper-compat version in Build-Depends.
    
    Fixes lintian: uses-debhelper-compat-file
    See https://lintian.debian.org/tags/uses-debhelper-compat-file.html for more details.

commit 806ab15b6a1441ab577019dc822dfd87a3d87310
Author: Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>
Date:   Sat Dec 14 05:16:57 2019 +0000

    Bump debhelper from old 11 to 12.
    
    Fixes lintian: package-uses-old-debhelper-compat-version
    See https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-uses-old-debhelper-compat-version.html for more details.

commit afd9e565eb965317a136fd5768e9374577a305cd
Author: Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>
Date:   Mon Jul 8 18:17:08 2019 +0000

    Set upstream metadata fields: Contact, Name.
    
    Fixes lintian: upstream-metadata-file-is-missing
    See https://lintian.debian.org/tags/upstream-metadata-file-is-missing.html for more details.

Created: 2019-12-15 Last update: 2025-06-26 01:37

lintian reports 2 warnings normal

Lintian reports 2 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2021-01-27 Last update: 2021-01-27 03:03

debian/patches: 1 patch to forward upstream low

Among the 1 debian patch available in version 0.53-4.1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

1 patch 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: 2023-02-26 15:54

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 4.1.5).

Created: 2018-08-20 Last update: 2025-02-27 13:25

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[2021-01-10] libnews-scan-perl 0.53-4.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-08] Accepted libnews-scan-perl 0.53-4.1 (source) into unstable (Holger Levsen)
[2018-07-10] libnews-scan-perl 0.53-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-07-07] Accepted libnews-scan-perl 0.53-4 (source all) into unstable (Florian Schlichting)
[2010-04-14] libnews-scan-perl 0.53-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2010-04-03] Accepted libnews-scan-perl 0.53-3 (source all) (Chris Butler)
[2003-04-18] Accepted libnews-scan-perl 0.53-2 (all source) (Chris Butler)
[2003-04-04] Accepted libnews-scan-perl 0.53-1 (all source) (Chris Butler)
[2002-03-07] Accepted libnews-scan-perl 0.51-2 (all source) (Chris Butler)
[2000-12-12] Installed libnews-scan-perl 0.51-1 (all source) (Chris Butler)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 0

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