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general

source: vcftools (main)
version: 0.1.17-1
maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team (archive) (DMD) (LowNMU)
uploaders: Andreas Tille [DMD] – Thorsten Alteholz [DMD]
arch: any
std-ver: 4.7.2
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 0.1.16-2
oldstable: 0.1.16-3
stable: 0.1.16-3
testing: 0.1.17-1
unstable: 0.1.17-1

versioned links

0.1.16-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.1.16-3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.1.17-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

vcftools

action needed

Problems while searching for a new upstream version high

uscan had problems while searching for a new upstream version:

In watchfile debian/watch, reading webpage
  https://github.com/vcftools/vcftools/tags failed: 500 Can't connect to github.com:443 (Temporary failure in name resolution)

Created: 2026-10-17 Last update: 2026-10-17 21:30

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 0.1.17-2, 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 327ecc20cc653cba73d1818780bafa3c42838829
Author: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Mar 10 09:46:28 2026 +0100

    Replace pkg-config with pkgconf in Build-Depends

Created: 2026-03-10 Last update: 2026-10-15 09:01

debian/patches: 4 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 4 debian patches available in version 0.1.17-1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

4 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: 2025-08-22 12:02

Standards version of the package is outdated.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 4.7.2).

Created: 2025-12-23 Last update: 2026-03-31 15:01

news

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[2025-08-25] vcftools 0.1.17-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-08-22] Accepted vcftools 0.1.17-1 (source) into unstable (Dylan Aïssi)
[2021-10-09] vcftools 0.1.16-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-10-07] Accepted vcftools 0.1.16-3 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2020-11-19] vcftools 0.1.16-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-11-16] Accepted vcftools 0.1.16-2 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2019-05-27] Accepted vcftools 0.1.12+dfsg-1+deb8u1 (source amd64) into oldstable (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2019-04-15] Accepted vcftools 0.1.14+dfsg-4+deb9u1 (source amd64) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Dylan Aïssi)
[2018-08-06] vcftools 0.1.16-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-08-03] Accepted vcftools 0.1.16-1 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2018-07-23] vcftools REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-02-24] vcftools 0.1.15-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-02-18] Accepted vcftools 0.1.15-1 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2016-12-26] vcftools 0.1.14+dfsg-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-12-15] Accepted vcftools 0.1.14+dfsg-4 (source amd64) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2016-07-12] vcftools 0.1.14+dfsg-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-07-03] Accepted vcftools 0.1.14+dfsg-3 (source amd64) into unstable (Canberk Koç) (signed by: Andreas Tille)
[2015-12-06] vcftools 0.1.14+dfsg-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2015-11-30] Accepted vcftools 0.1.14+dfsg-2 (source amd64) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2015-11-22] vcftools 0.1.14+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2015-11-16] Accepted vcftools 0.1.14+dfsg-1 (source amd64) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2015-09-06] vcftools 0.1.13+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2015-08-09] Accepted vcftools 0.1.13+dfsg-1 (source amd64) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2014-04-15] vcftools 0.1.12+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2014-04-04] Accepted vcftools 0.1.12+dfsg-1 (source amd64) (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2013-07-09] vcftools 0.1.11+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2013-06-28] Accepted vcftools 0.1.11+dfsg-1 (source amd64) (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2013-05-05] vcftools 0.1.10+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2013-02-24] Accepted vcftools 0.1.10+dfsg-1 (source amd64) (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2012-12-02] Accepted vcftools 0.1.9+dfsg-2 (source amd64) (Thorsten Alteholz)

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all: 0

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