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Details about package autogen

Name:	autogen (PTS)
Uploader:	Luke Yasuda <jing@jing.rocks> (Debian QA page)
Description:	autogen - automated text file generator autogen-doc - automated text file generator - documentation libopts25 - automated option processing library based on autogen libopts25-dev - automated option processing library based on autogen - dev files

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Information

Version:	1:5.18.16-8
Uploaded:	2026-08-28 09:07
Source package:	autogen_5.18.16-8.dsc
Distribution:	unstable
Section:	devel
Priority:
Homepage:	https://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/
Vcs-Git:	https://salsa.debian.org/debian/autogen.git
Vcs-Browser:	https://salsa.debian.org/debian/autogen
Closes bugs:	#801825 #849252 #1010062 #1044118 #1049788

Changelog

 autogen (1:5.18.16-8) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * d/*: wrap-and-sort -kanst
   * d/control: change the maintainer to me (Closes: #1010062)
   * d/control: upgrade standards version to 4.7.4
   * d/control: upgrade debhelper compatibility level to 14
   * d/control: slightly change the short description of libopts25-dev
   * d/control: change pkg-config to pkgconf
   * add a patch to fix illegal address access (CVE-2025-8746)
   * add a patch to update doc/gendocs_template to the latest version
     (Closes: #801825)
   * d/rules: move not-installed files to not-installed
   * d/rules: add more files to clean (Closes: #1044118, #1049788)
   * move autoopts-config and autoopts.pc to libopts25-dev (Closes: #849252)
   * d/watch: upgrade to version 5
   * autogen: add lintian-overrides for source and binary packages
   * do not install extra license files
   * d/copyright: mass update
   * libopts25-dev: add lintian-overrides
   * libopts25: add a symbols file
   * add salsa-ci

QA information

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Package uses debhelper-compat

Debhelper compatibility level 14
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A watch file is present but doesn't work

Warnings: In watch file debian/watch, reading webpage
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/ failed: 500 Can't connect to ftp.gnu.org:443
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Package is not native

Format: 3.0 (quilt)
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"Maintainer" email is the same as the uploader
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Package has lintian warnings
autogen source
- W debhelper-but-no-misc-depends
  - autogen
  - autogen-doc
  - libopts25
  - libopts25-dev
- W missing-debian-watch-file-standard
  - [debian/watch]
- W recommended-field
  - (in section for source) Priority [debian/control:1]
- P package-uses-experimental-debhelper-compat-version
  - 14
- O source-contains-autogenerated-gperf-data
  - [agen5/directive.c] (override comment: the package cannot generate these files itself)
  - [autoopts/option-value-type.c] (override comment: the package cannot generate these files itself)
  - [autoopts/option-xat-attribute.c] (override comment: the package cannot generate these files itself)
  - [autoopts/save-flags.c] (override comment: the package cannot generate these files itself)
- O very-long-line-length-in-source-file
  - 739 > 512 [config/libtool.m4:6602] (override comment: libtool file)
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Package closes ITA bugs
- autogen:
  - #801825 (Important): autogen: non-free file "doc/gendocs_template" (CC-BY-ND-3.0)
  - #849252 (Normal): Please ship pkg-config file in libopts25-dev, not autogen
  - #1010062 (Normal, ITA): ITA: autogen -- automated text file generator
- src:autogen:
  - #1044118 (Minor): autogen: Fails to build source after successful build
  - #1049788 (Minor): autogen: Fails to build binary packages again after successful build
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Package is already in Debian
- The package uploader is not currently maintaining autogen in Debian
- Last upload was on the 2025-05-22

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d/copyright is in DEP5 format

Upstream Contact:	Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org>
Licenses:	LGPL-3+ or BSD-3-clause, GPL-2+ or LGPL-3+ with libopts exception or BSD-3-clause with libopts exception, LGPL-2.1+, FSFAP, GPL-3+

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