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general

source: pwgen (main)
version: 2.08-2
maintainer: Theodore Y. Ts'o (DMD)
arch: any
std-ver: 4.4.0
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

oldstable: 2.08-2
stable: 2.08-2
testing: 2.08-2
unstable: 2.08-2

versioned links

2.08-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

pwgen (10 bugs: 0, 3, 7, 0)
pwgen-udeb

action needed

1 bug tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 1 bug, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2025-07-28 08:31

10 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 1459a31e07fa208cddb2c4f3f72071503c37b8bc
Author: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Date:   Tue Aug 14 17:53:21 2018 +0200

    randnum.c: cleanup after CVE-2013-4442 fix
    
    Get rid of 2 left-overs from commit ccda6f21 and in addition remove a misleading comment.
    
    Signed-off-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
    Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

commit 8fffbc7cbf3f80add7150bca7c05f41f25b72fbe
Author: partev <petrosyan@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Sep 2 12:20:32 2019 -0400

    fix a repeated word typo
    
    the word "completely" is repeated twice

commit fd5c02dc75354c289eee4d6d1ddf762a07e203ad
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date:   Sat Aug 3 11:29:27 2019 -0400

    debian: update changelog for 2.08-2 release
    
    Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

commit 7205e8d3fab5963394d20304f5e138c9d71e11f8
Merge: 54d6c1c a4b5dcd
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date:   Sat Aug 3 11:44:03 2019 -0400

    Merge commit 'a4b5dcd24c31cc457d15abd1019a6d8767280c35'

commit a4b5dcd24c31cc457d15abd1019a6d8767280c35
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date:   Sat Aug 3 10:29:13 2019 -0400

    debian: update changelog to reflect new packaging changes
    
    Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

commit 63b97d82c839dda953aa271193820021a924484d
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date:   Sat Aug 3 10:20:12 2019 -0400

    debian: update to debhelper compat level 12
    
    Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

commit 0065266773a7fe7fabcb2abec9ce1de3b1097805
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date:   Sat Aug 3 10:19:30 2019 -0400

    debian: update standards compliance to 4.4.0
    
    Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

commit 70e075451062dcc29c11b6f9d585a342221a1b37
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date:   Sat Aug 3 09:32:30 2019 -0400

    debian: add gbp.conf file
    
    Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

commit 54d6c1c0e8c380583c7b3f87c0ff19146232a771
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date:   Fri Apr 20 10:15:17 2018 -0400

    Fix unreliable support of --capitalize when --ambiguous is requested
    
    When generating passwords using the default phonemes mechanism,
    --capitalize isn't reliably supported when ambiguous characters are
    removed.  Fix this.
    
    Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

commit 89f57afa4cdf9417f49224403d4e7bf5fa8c6787
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date:   Fri Apr 20 10:03:13 2018 -0400

    debian: use a simplified debian/rules
    
    Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

Created: 2019-08-03 Last update: 2025-07-27 12:01

lintian reports 2 warnings normal

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

Created: 2025-04-10 Last update: 2025-07-20 15:01

debian/patches: 1 patch to forward upstream low

Among the 1 debian patch available in version 2.08-2 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 4.4.0).

Created: 2019-09-29 Last update: 2025-02-27 13:24

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[2019-08-09] pwgen 2.08-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-08-03] Accepted pwgen 2.08-2 (source) into unstable (Theodore Y. Ts'o) (signed by: Theodore Ts'o)
[2017-08-12] pwgen 2.08-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-08-07] Accepted pwgen 2.08-1 (source) into unstable (Theodore Y. Ts'o) (signed by: Theodore Ts'o)
[2015-11-04] pwgen 2.07-1.1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2015-10-29] Accepted pwgen 2.07-1.1 (source amd64) into unstable (Wookey)
[2014-10-30] pwgen 2.07-1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2014-10-28] Accepted pwgen 2.07-1 (source i386) into unstable (Theodore Y. Ts'o) (signed by: Theodore Ts'o)
[2007-08-08] pwgen 2.06-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2007-07-05] Accepted pwgen 2.06-1 (source i386) (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
[2006-02-04] pwgen 2.05-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2006-01-22] Accepted pwgen 2.05-1 (source i386) (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
[2005-06-15] Accepted pwgen 2.04-1 (i386 source) (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
[2003-01-16] Accepted pwgen 2.03-1 (i386 source) (Vincent Renardias)
[2003-01-13] Accepted pwgen 2.02-2 (i386 source) (Vincent Renardias)
[2002-07-17] Accepted pwgen 2.02-1 (i386 source) (Vincent Renardias)
[2001-12-06] Installed pwgen 2.01-3 (i386 source) (Vincent Renardias)
[2001-07-11] Installed pwgen 2.01-2 (i386 source) (Vincent Renardias)
[2001-06-21] Installed pwgen 2.01-1 (i386 source) (Vincent Renardias)
[2001-06-14] Installed pwgen 1-17 (i386 source) (Vincent Renardias)
[2001-03-18] Installed pwgen 1-16 (i386 source) (Vincent Renardias) (signed by: Fredrik Steen)
[2000-01-04] Installed pwgen 1-15 (source i386) (Vincent Renardias)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 10 11
RC: 0
I&N: 3
M&W: 7 8
F&P: 0
patch: 1

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