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source: python-irc (main)
version: 8.5.3+dfsg-5
maintainer: Ben Finney (DMD)
arch: all
std-ver: 4.4.1
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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o-o-stable: 8.5.3+dfsg-5
oldstable: 8.5.3+dfsg-5
stable: 8.5.3+dfsg-5
testing: 8.5.3+dfsg-5
unstable: 8.5.3+dfsg-5

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python3-irc (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)

action needed

A new upstream version is available: 20.5.0 high

A new upstream version 20.5.0 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2025-11-26 Last update: 2026-10-13 01:00

lintian reports 1 error and 2 warnings high

Lintian reports 1 error and 2 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2021-04-11 Last update: 2022-07-30 12:16

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 8.5.3+dfsg-6~pre1, 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 b697dd5f9c08e02c8081b4fadcc7997026766a7a
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Oct 3 15:37:29 2026 +1000

    Update documentation of pre-release development convention.

commit 19726b7d0169a1b8c6a803d6359af139b69a3a67
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 12:27:52 2026 +1000

    Add pipeline definition for Salsa Continuous Integration.

commit f6a92cfaeaad00bc1c0d6215c74dd395c319476a
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 12:27:02 2026 +1000

    Extract common package description text.

commit 91ef73d2bbf6855bd22f1ff04645742b2f0284c9
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 12:24:43 2026 +1000

    Mark a build dependency as needed only for built package check.

commit 2ab1383da15a6d391db2601e26967a5f59721035
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 12:23:27 2026 +1000

    Declare Debhelper compatibility level 14.

commit 19eced9c7ad863df4354328e3c0753f18a57cf2b
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 12:22:51 2026 +1000

    Declare conformance to “Standards-Version: 4.7.4”.

commit dfe4f54af1b46506f1f26c07e56df867c6a7dd6a
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 12:21:52 2026 +1000

    Remove superfluous declaration of “Priority: optional”.
    
    As of dpkg version 1.22.13, this field is set to “optional” by default. As
    such, in this case the `Priority` field is redundant and should be removed.

commit 8fe62d049eac4320e3c4417dc617b34ccb2a3dd8
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 12:21:20 2026 +1000

    Remove superfluous declaration of “Rules-Requires-Root: no”.
    
    As of dpkg version 1.22.13, this field is set to “no” by default. As such,
    in this case the ‘Rules-Requires-Root’ field is redundant and should be
    removed.

commit 71e396402ac011d352e7fa70b7b01efb17b4396c
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 12:19:54 2026 +1000

    Organise changelog entry items by source file affected.

commit d4c345d9aec81131791b0e169a6f58ef45c91e07
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 12:13:50 2026 +1000

    Document policy on use of Generative AI.

commit b29d8e168d2d9c1b09ad5336c99f13af47f74bf9
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 12:13:16 2026 +1000

    Document our preferred VCS collaboration strategy.

commit e62f13889dcec9ec7b0cb1b5448430be5d582c9c
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 12:12:45 2026 +1000

    Correct an example in source package documentation.

commit 9422eefc6043d2a53c94f2a3db1c5007e7ca4e30
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 12:09:52 2026 +1000

    Update years of publication in copyright notices.

commit 66e754af084519e9a88d83df6ab8712a4fa4f003
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 7 17:09:37 2025 +1100

    Remove unused test helper module, now migrated to external package.

commit e565d4e75e49f6c78488c3f2cf3517819bd99ebc
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 7 17:08:51 2025 +1100

    Use external package ‘python3-package-smoke-test’ for AutoPkgTest.

commit 504baed1a0206edf9b73a5a5afd35896edc2303b
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Jan 5 14:45:30 2025 +1100

    Correct order of editor hints.

commit d59c7bf4fe70be8d3314bd41d7afef8a6ffbba52
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Jan 5 14:45:27 2025 +1100

    Update years of publication in copyright notices.

commit e38c50c777735dd74a34e5b900c2002620b77708
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Nov 12 14:54:39 2024 +1100

    Update Lintian override specifications to match current Lintian output.

commit 5aa9cd21467ebfdbbaf7a1784e6515931115e25a
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Nov 12 14:49:06 2024 +1100

    Configure dh_clean to remove MyPy cache directory.

commit e62fd34f8c53697b51614be9fb483f2989d0fd95
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Nov 12 14:27:40 2024 +1100

    Declare conformance to “Standards-Version: 4.7.2”.

commit b1c578ffe00dbede9c9215ca4d5e9ccec17f8026
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Jun 6 15:35:32 2025 +1000

    Commit with a pre-release version text, to allow build.

commit 0e5a482a22fc12b7a5176385c9e5a763ed2c4485
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Nov 12 14:26:41 2024 +1100

    Update publication years in copyright notices.

commit 1f17e9b2b26968b42afae5e0488e4cde2e7cc056
Author: Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Jan 21 13:27:16 2024 +0100

    remove old extraneous python3-mock & python3-six build-dep

commit b43524be9d9675fc5fee4e5f5919622763ae8a95
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Jan 28 11:15:48 2023 +1100

    Refine EditorConfig settings file.

commit c0f7173b1b51475a531f813b28997ef6beda90d1
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Jun 25 18:11:58 2022 +1000

    Use ‘importlib.metadata’ API to get distribution metadata.
    
    This avoids the external ‘pkg_resources’ package for this purpose.

commit 19358d30eb8c9fe8ac382bf36baec86d582094f9
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Jun 25 18:11:20 2022 +1000

    Format multi-line messages using ‘textwrap.dedent’.

commit 9b51aba14ff512a90b097c15673a5d8061541cbd
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Jun 25 11:45:31 2022 +1000

    Exit with error when smoke_test is given nothing to test.

commit 1cab1c7e4721196d66a2948109d4c01c5b9c3d9f
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Jun 25 11:44:46 2022 +1000

    Test module names only in the case any were specified.

commit 9576265df9cf2373ca1c6f651c29c0c4fc53cf45
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Jun 25 11:44:11 2022 +1000

    Remove an outdated promise of Python 2 support.

commit b435a333a69086dcdcbb6da7b90ba6cff92b14c7
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Jun 24 13:56:36 2022 +1000

    Add editor hints and explanatory comment to a configuration file.

commit ff02d796eb71edd1843ce3b0a5b1ddfa2e17f4fe
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 27 08:17:21 2022 +1000

    Document the Debian bug report for a Lintian false positive.

commit cfadc7c417b5f54fc8c2a2a4c12a49dfd97e584b
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 6 11:11:45 2022 +1000

    Specify EditorConfig settings for the Debian packaging files.

commit 40c0e233f63145fe7a68bcaa98ffc3f66aaf6ab0
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 6 09:45:55 2022 +1000

    Override false positive Lintian check for IETF copyright conditions.

commit c49435094b5d51734510cf0d2c331e8d5d240170
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 6 09:21:58 2022 +1000

    Enable smoke test of installed Python library in AutoPkgTest.

commit 80db98472d72d044d765dedc6531b9f2732b7503
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 6 09:18:40 2022 +1000

    Override false positive Lintian check for VCS-* field names.

commit ce348854f77ef7a6f9fd913d57528ae3ec12bc1f
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 6 09:17:18 2022 +1000

    Declare Debhelper compatibility level 13.

commit 5165f13ed557aee5347ee191f8b6f4f1c3fe63a9
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 6 09:16:28 2022 +1000

    Declare conformance to “Standards-Version: 4.6.0”.

commit 584cf2abd3fc90324c9b4f67377c55f32a063af5
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 6 09:15:56 2022 +1000

    Update the project homepage.

commit 961599f78c1d6580527b0ae995b840b1627eb87f
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 6 09:15:36 2022 +1000

    Record the upstream documentation URL.

commit 863e1daeb7a1b6e7ac3475949d680f604d5592a1
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 6 09:13:12 2022 +1000

    Remove obsolete field from DEP-12 metadata.

commit 28660cc841c1ff62ad63c6652ba7c6fe81fcb633
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 6 08:50:01 2022 +1000

    Migrate to ‘main’ branch as default for packaging repository.

commit 3c493291c7c3fc835080386c7b6538e5d7868ee3
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 6 08:47:49 2022 +1000

    Refine description in a header comment.

commit b092a457b7a0420780889a5c9c34062d9e5296d7
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 6 08:47:34 2022 +1000

    Update publication years in copyright notices.

Created: 2022-05-05 Last update: 2026-10-09 10:49

1 open merge request in Salsa normal

There is 1 open merge request for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.

Created: 2026-10-09 Last update: 2026-10-09 10:49

debian/patches: 2 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 3 debian patches available in version 8.5.3+dfsg-5 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

2 patches 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: 2023-02-27 20:59

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 4.4.1).

Created: 2020-01-21 Last update: 2026-03-31 15:01

news

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[2020-01-19] python-irc 8.5.3+dfsg-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-01-13] Accepted python-irc 8.5.3+dfsg-5 (source) into unstable (Ben Finney)
[2017-02-20] python-irc 8.5.3+dfsg-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-02-17] Accepted python-irc 8.5.3+dfsg-4 (source) into unstable (Ben Finney)
[2017-01-18] python-irc 8.5.3+dfsg-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-01-07] Accepted python-irc 8.5.3+dfsg-3 (source all) into unstable, unstable (Ben Finney)
[2013-12-01] python-irc 8.5.3+dfsg-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2013-11-21] Accepted python-irc 8.5.3+dfsg-2 (source all) (Daniel Baumann)
[2013-10-01] Accepted python-irc 8.5.3+dfsg-1 (source all) (Daniel Baumann)
[2013-08-17] Accepted python-irc 8.5.1+dfsg-1 (source all) (Daniel Baumann)
[2013-07-29] Accepted python-irc 8.4+dfsg-1 (source all) (Daniel Baumann)
[2013-07-17] Accepted python-irc 8.3.1+dfsg-2 (source all) (Daniel Baumann)
[2013-07-12] Accepted python-irc 8.3.1+dfsg-1 (source all) (Daniel Baumann)
[2013-05-16] Accepted python-irc 8.3+dfsg-1 (source all) (Daniel Baumann)
[2013-05-05] python-irc 8.0.1+dfsg-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2013-04-14] Accepted python-irc 8.1.2+dfsg-1 (source all) (Daniel Baumann)
[2013-03-10] Accepted python-irc 8.0.1+dfsg-2 (source all) (Daniel Baumann)
[2013-02-14] Accepted python-irc 8.0.1+dfsg-1 (source all) (Daniel Baumann)
[2013-01-24] Accepted python-irc 8.0+dfsg-1 (source all) (Daniel Baumann)
[2012-11-28] Accepted python-irc 5.0.1+dfsg-1 (source all) (Daniel Baumann)
[2012-11-11] Accepted python-irc 3.4.2+dfsg-1 (source all) (Daniel Baumann)
[2012-11-11] Accepted python-irc 3.2+dfsg-1 (source all) (Daniel Baumann)
[2012-11-11] Accepted python-irc 3.5+dfsg-1 (source all) (Daniel Baumann)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 4
RC: 0
I&N: 4
M&W: 0
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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