python-ruffus - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: python-ruffus (main)
version: 2.8.4-7
maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team (archive) (DMD) (LowNMU)
uploaders: Étienne Mollier [DMD] – Andreas Tille [DMD]
arch: all
std-ver: 4.7.0
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 2.8.4-2
oldstable: 2.8.4-5
stable: 2.8.4-7
unstable: 2.8.4-7

versioned links

2.8.4-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.8.4-5: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.8.4-7: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

python-ruffus-doc
python3-ruffus

action needed

Debci reports failed tests high

unstable: pass (log)
The tests ran in 0:03:03
Last run: 2026-03-03T11:47:14.000Z
Previous status: unknown

testing: fail (log)
The tests ran in 0:00:08
Last run: 2026-01-31T18:05:42.000Z
Previous status: unknown

stable: pass (log)
The tests ran in 0:02:42
Last run: 2025-11-09T08:11:38.000Z
Previous status: unknown

Created: 2026-01-31 Last update: 2026-03-11 04:01

The package has not entered testing even though the delay is over normal

The package has not entered testing even though the 2-day delay is over. Check why.

Created: 2026-01-31 Last update: 2026-03-11 03:32

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 2.8.4-8, 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 f78fc651e97bc056c110947e5f31c34d436b2f02
Merge: 50191bd 95e0b14
Author: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Mar 9 10:47:03 2026 +0100

    Merge branch 'karso/fix_1123529' into 'master'
    
    fix Bug 1123529
    
    See merge request med-team/python-ruffus!1

commit 95e0b1418e809205bf8264e7fa1927798f64fe26
Author: Karsten Schöke <karsten.schoeke@geobasis-bb.de>
Date:   Mon Mar 9 07:19:55 2026 +0100

    revert bad lintian-brush changes

commit 0578859ed10e42eb67c305cdde5d47b9217a8243
Author: Karsten Schöke <karsten.schoeke@geobasis-bb.de>
Date:   Sun Mar 8 11:48:09 2026 +0100

    prepare relaese.

commit 1313e95ec51e284b516eb1e5ee2fb598e6a88c34
Author: Karsten Schöke <karsten.schoeke@geobasis-bb.de>
Date:   Sun Mar 8 11:41:13 2026 +0100

    Update watch file format version to 5.
    
    Changes-By: lintian-brush
    Fixes: lintian: older-debian-watch-file-standard
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/older-debian-watch-file-standard.html

commit 047eeda0f15a760144ed8225877e83a45e5d186d
Author: Karsten Schöke <karsten.schoeke@geobasis-bb.de>
Date:   Sun Mar 8 11:19:38 2026 +0100

    Ignore on Python >=3.12 due to multiprocessing daemon restriction

commit d19bcc4f7dba658353a31d063ca4fa1b5b91456a
Author: Karsten Schöke <karsten.schoeke@geobasis-bb.de>
Date:   Sat Mar 7 11:08:27 2026 +0100

    Remove duplicate values for fields Entry, Entry, Entry, Name, Name, Name in debian/upstream/metadata.
    
    Changes-By: lintian-brush
    Fixes: lintian: upstream-metadata-yaml-invalid
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/upstream-metadata-yaml-invalid.html

commit eacd2a0cf0a873941de43387c43f2673c3e968a3
Author: Karsten Schöke <karsten.schoeke@geobasis-bb.de>
Date:   Sat Mar 7 11:08:26 2026 +0100

    Set upstream metadata fields: Repository.
    
    Changes-By: lintian-brush

commit 55343d359350b6797f2e5252b1caff9924e0b49a
Author: Karsten Schöke <karsten.schoeke@geobasis-bb.de>
Date:   Sat Mar 7 11:08:24 2026 +0100

    Reorder Files paragraphs in debian/copyright by directory depth.
    
    Changes-By: lintian-brush
    Fixes: lintian: globbing-patterns-out-of-order
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/globbing-patterns-out-of-order.html

commit d2b99a5df58946f54671e2e64cec2e6cea9cb757
Author: Karsten Schöke <karsten.schoeke@geobasis-bb.de>
Date:   Sat Mar 7 11:08:24 2026 +0100

    Drop use of autotools-dev debhelper.
    
    Changes-By: lintian-brush
    Fixes: lintian: debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated.html
    Fixes: lintian: debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated.html
    Fixes: lintian: debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated.html
    Fixes: lintian: debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated.html
    Fixes: lintian: debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated.html
    Fixes: lintian: debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated.html
    Fixes: lintian: debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated.html
    Fixes: lintian: debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated.html
    Fixes: lintian: debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated.html
    Fixes: lintian: debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debhelper-tools-from-autotools-dev-are-deprecated.html

Created: 2026-03-09 Last update: 2026-03-09 11:02

debian/patches: 6 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 8 debian patches available in version 2.8.4-7 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

6 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: 2024-12-17 06:00

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.3 instead of 4.7.0).

Created: 2025-02-21 Last update: 2025-12-23 20:00

testing migrations

excuses:
- Migration status for python-ruffus (- to 2.8.4-7): BLOCKED: Rejected/violates migration policy/introduces a regression
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Updating python-ruffus would introduce bugs in testing: #1123529
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/p/python-ruffus.html
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for python-ruffus/2.8.4-7: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on amd64
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on arm64
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on armhf
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on i386
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on ppc64el
- ∙ ∙ Required age reduced by 3 days because of autopkgtest
- ∙ ∙ 449 days old (needed 2 days)
- Not considered

news

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[2026-02-01] python-ruffus REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-12-19] python-ruffus 2.8.4-7 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-12-16] Accepted python-ruffus 2.8.4-7 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2024-12-08] python-ruffus 2.8.4-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-12-05] Accepted python-ruffus 2.8.4-6 (source) into unstable (Ananthu C V)
[2022-11-15] python-ruffus 2.8.4-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-11-12] Accepted python-ruffus 2.8.4-5 (source) into unstable (Étienne Mollier)
[2021-12-09] python-ruffus 2.8.4-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-12-06] Accepted python-ruffus 2.8.4-4 (source) into unstable (Étienne Mollier)
[2021-10-05] python-ruffus 2.8.4-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-10-01] Accepted python-ruffus 2.8.4-3 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2021-02-22] python-ruffus 2.8.4-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-02-11] Accepted python-ruffus 2.8.4-2 (source) into unstable (Shayan Doust)
[2020-06-12] python-ruffus 2.8.4-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-06-10] Accepted python-ruffus 2.8.4-1 (source) into unstable (Steffen Moeller)
[2020-01-24] python-ruffus 2.8.1-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-01-22] Accepted python-ruffus 2.8.1-6 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2019-12-28] python-ruffus 2.8.1-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-12-22] Accepted python-ruffus 2.8.1-5 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2018-12-16] python-ruffus 2.8.1-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-12-14] Accepted python-ruffus 2.8.1-4 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2018-12-07] python-ruffus 2.8.1-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-12-04] Accepted python-ruffus 2.8.1-3 (source) into unstable (Gianfranco Costamagna)
[2018-12-03] Accepted python-ruffus 2.8.1-2 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2018-12-02] Accepted python-ruffus 2.8.1-1 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2018-07-18] python-ruffus 2.7-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-07-11] Accepted python-ruffus 2.7-1 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2018-04-21] python-ruffus 2.6.3+dfsg-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-04-16] Accepted python-ruffus 2.6.3+dfsg-5 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2017-05-01] Accepted python-ruffus 2.6.3+dfsg-4~bpo8+1 (source all) into jessie-backports->backports-policy, jessie-backports (Andreas Tille)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 1
RC: 1
I&N: 0
M&W: 0
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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