#1145952 RFS: autogen/1:5.18.16-8 [ITA] -- automated text file generator

#1145952#5
Date:
2026-08-28 09:11:07 UTC
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Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "autogen":

  * Package name     : autogen
    Version          : 1:5.18.16-8
    Upstream contact : Bruce Korb <bkorb@gnu.org>
  * URL              : https://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/
  * License          : 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+
  * Vcs              : https://salsa.debian.org/debian/autogen
    Section          : devel

The source builds the following binary packages:

   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

To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:

https://mentors.debian.net/package/autogen/

Alternatively, you can download the package with 'dget' using this
command:

   dget -x
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/autogen/autogen_5.18.16-8.dsc

Changes since the last upload:

  autogen (1:5.18.16-8) unstable; urgency=medium
  .
    * 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

Regards,
-- 
   Luke Yasuda