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commit b6dea4cc22acbd44614ef5e328e9703c2cefdc0a
Merge: 7b19028 2391872
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Wed May 13 15:41:33 2026 +1000
Merge packaging for release “25.8.0-1”.
commit 23918726036cce9f0d12f01619ad19bcd0eeca5c
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Wed May 13 11:00:04 2026 +1000
Finalise this release.
commit 70d32dbc6d1d7bef2af1810ba44163995cb0c0ca
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Wed May 6 06:02:03 2026 +1000
Build documentation package ‘towncrier-doc’.
commit d0b11ec2c4440aea0298d15aed1b6d445fb9e116
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Tue May 12 16:52:23 2026 +1000
Add “Recommends:” for the VCS packages that Towncrier works with.
commit 014e6b05d3a232350da8706670eeb2bcfe7351b2
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Mon Apr 27 12:36:36 2026 +1000
Add “Build-Depends: mercurial”.
commit 5678740676bab58a32cc8357d7a5cf2b7163a465
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Mon Apr 27 12:39:24 2026 +1000
Update upstream years of publication in copyright statement.
commit b6415e20683abbdd9a5cbd75d3225ef19ee38d2a
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Tue May 12 16:48:57 2026 +1000
Document bug reports closed by the new upstream version.
commit 3d1a279fa74708cadbcad26c7eca04445d271030
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Mon Apr 27 12:35:54 2026 +1000
Begin packaging upstream version “25.8.0”.
commit 7b19028bdca973dc19c819e1849abd2ef6039859
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Wed May 13 10:16:00 2026 +1000
Explicitly “Breaks: towncrier (<= 24.8.0-2)”.
The earlier package must first be purged to allow the library files to be
installed.
commit 65277479e9d1fdfdbc4463e6097bb90dbd3eee87
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Wed May 6 05:59:09 2026 +1000
Build separate library package ‘python3-towncrier’.
commit 5f72f2f010d2c59a2fe566212c355998e7bdfb36
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Wed May 6 06:00:20 2026 +1000
Extract configurable environment variable for ‘rm’ command.
commit e6a0b5de0041a8ce9de0edc1f012c87dd53657a6
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Wed May 13 09:46:56 2026 +1000
Add “Work on changes in a branch or fork” section to developer read-me.
commit 363877b6b17ccbcb378fd1b4712c83557b77d7d5
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Mon Apr 27 12:40:10 2026 +1000
Update packaging years of publication in copyright statement.
commit ae45b320cbcda1eb57b0ac962495bd5bdd380050
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Wed May 6 09:45:10 2026 +1000
Update years of publication in copyright statements.
commit 421c73842f085ef3587ef1c26a17aa4443ad67d2
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Mon Apr 27 12:00:34 2026 +1000
Correct roff formatting in manual page.
commit 3814634723144b252606eb5873e7144b6fd87598
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Mon Apr 27 11:22:43 2026 +1000
Revert UScan configuration back to version 4.
The UScan configuration version 5 parser has restrictions we need to
navigate better, before converting to that format.
commit 455ce20487fed97763e996b4ef5ab6e83d28bd80
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Mon Apr 27 10:25:13 2026 +1000
Remove whitespace that confuses UScan.
commit 61f8199ee7c980a556bad0672f12cd0c058ddec5
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Wed Apr 22 12:43:12 2026 +1000
Convert to version 5 UScan configuration format.
commit fdc1de92d97a634a3038bb07192295993cf2ec8a
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Wed Apr 22 10:50:00 2026 +1000
Declare conformance to “Standards-Version: 4.7.4”.
commit 12390162a91756725a56bf4056830bb749e2dc3a
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Wed Apr 22 10:47:21 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 89e6188e97d4c0772438532a6452e1bcc38d31b4
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Wed Apr 22 10:46:07 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 f9f4894f9aab3462f64482d4e227df30566ed80e
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Wed Apr 22 10:38:51 2026 +1000
Document removal of obsolete “Build-Depends: python3-tomli”.
As specified in upstream project metadata, the dependency is not needed at
Python 3.11 and later. The current Debian “oldstable” has ‘python3’ version
“3.11.2-1”, and all later releases are greater versions.
commit 3100315dff31ed63933010251537858a72e2dfc3
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Wed Apr 22 09:57:57 2026 +1000
Revert accidental change to a metadata URL.
commit 1a30ada526ad0b39312a7307e49403a7bd4c8672
Author: Alexandre Detiste <tchet@debian.org>
Date: Sat May 17 15:30:24 2025 +0200
drop python3-tomli from build-dependencies, not needed since Py3.11
commit 164504f97160e2ddd829b6407d36d8cae1a4ffa9
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Sun Jan 5 14:36:53 2025 +1100
Update years of publication in copyright notices.
commit 5c7536bf2143e1b1621ac020a48f5d1477375599
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Sun Jan 5 14:36:53 2025 +1100
Update years of publication in copyright notices.
commit 898a746a59f495cf7b898e511078d96dca85898f
Author: Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
Date: Thu Nov 21 12:04:02 2024 +1100
Start a new changelog entry for ongoing development.
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