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Details about package libarchive

Name:	libarchive (PTS)
Uploader:	Gabriel Barrantes <gabriel.barrantes.dev@outlook.com> (Debian QA page)
Description:	libarchive-dev - Multi-format archive and compression library (development files) libarchive13t64 - Multi-format archive and compression library (shared library) libarchive-tools - FreeBSD implementations of 'tar' and 'cpio' and other archive tools

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Information

Version:	3.8.4-1
Uploaded:	2025-12-17 00:58
Source package:	libarchive_3.8.4-1.dsc
Distribution:	unstable
Section:	libs
Priority:	optional
Homepage:	https://www.libarchive.org/
Vcs-Browser:	https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libarchive
Vcs-Git:	https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libarchive.git
Closes bugs:	#1122503

Changelog

 libarchive (3.8.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * New upstream release.
   * Update debian/libarchive13t64.symbols.
   * Remove upstream-vcs-tag setting from debian/gbp.conf.
   * Delete debian/README.Debian, as it is no longer applicable.
   * Switch debian/watch to version 5.
   * Add debian/.gitignore.
   * Make minor improvements to debian/upstream/metadata.
   * Adopt the package (Closes: #1122503).
   * Remove unneeded patches:
     - debian/patches/typos.patch
     - debian/patches/test-locale-C.UTF-8.patch

QA information

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Package uses debhelper with an old compatibility level

No compatibility level set!

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A watch file is present but doesn't work

Warnings:

debian/watch is an obsolete version 1 watch file;
please upgrade to a higher version
(see uscan(1) for details).
debian/watch is an obsolete version 1 watch file;
please upgrade to a higher version
(see uscan(1) for details).
debian/watch is an obsolete version 1 watch file;
please upgrade to a higher version
(see uscan(1) for details).
debian/watch is an obsolete version 1 watch file;
please upgrade to a higher version
(see uscan(1) for details).
there appears to be a version 2 format line in
the version 1 watch file debian/watch;
Have you forgotten a 'version=2' line at the start, perhaps?
Skipping the line: Version: 5

there appears to be a version 2 format line in
the version 1 watch file debian/watch;
Have you forgotten a 'version=2' line at the start, perhaps?
Skipping the line: Template: GitHub

there appears to be a version 2 format line in
the version 1 watch file debian/watch;
Have you forgotten a 'version=2' line at the start, perhaps?
Skipping the line: Owner: libarchive

there appears to be a version 2 format line in
the version 1 watch file debian/watch;
Have you forgotten a 'version=2' line at the start, perhaps?
Skipping the line: Project: libarchive

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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
libarchive source
- W missing-debian-watch-file-standard
  - [debian/watch]
- W orig-tarball-missing-upstream-signature
  - libarchive_3.8.4.orig.tar.gz
- X very-long-line-length-in-source-file
  - 581 > 512 [build/ci/github_actions/ci.cmd:123]
- O debhelper-but-no-misc-depends
  - libarchive-dev (override comment: The "default" dependencies are added automatically by debhelper in compat level 14.)
  - libarchive-tools (override comment: The "default" dependencies are added automatically by debhelper in compat level 14.)
  - libarchive13t64 (override comment: The "default" dependencies are added automatically by debhelper in compat level 14.)
- O debhelper-compat-file-is-missing
  - (override comment: We use X-DH-Compat: 14)
- O package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version
  - 1
libarchive-dev
- P spelling-error-in-copyright
  - "GNU Public Licence" "GNU General Public License"
  - aheared adhered
  - rouines routines
libarchive-tools
- W unknown-field
  - Commands
- P spelling-error-in-copyright
  - "GNU Public Licence" "GNU General Public License"
  - aheared adhered
  - rouines routines
libarchive13t64
- W package-name-doesnt-match-sonames
  - libarchive13
- P spelling-error-in-copyright
  - "GNU Public Licence" "GNU General Public License"
  - aheared adhered
  - rouines routines
- X exit-in-shared-library
  - [usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libarchive.so.13.8.4]
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Package closes ITA bug
- libarchive:
  - #1122503 (Normal, ITA): ITA: libarchive -- Multi-format archive and compression library (development files)
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Package is already in Debian
- The package uploader is not currently maintaining libarchive in Debian
- Last upload was on the 2025-11-11

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d/copyright is in DEP5 format

Upstream Contact:	Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
Licenses:	Expat, Apache-2.0 or CC0-1.0 or OpenSSL+SSLeay, BSD-2-clause and Expat, BSD-124-clause-UCB, BSD-2-clause, PD, BSD-2-clause and BSD-1-clause-UCB, BSD-2-clause and BSD-3-clause-UCB, BSD-4-clause-UCB, BSD-2-clause and BSD-124-clause-UCB, Apache-2.0

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