#1149706 RFS: sitecopy/1:0.17-1 [ITA] [RC] -- program for managing a WWW site via FTP, SFTP, DAV or HTTP

#1149706#5
Date:
2026-10-02 14:08:37 UTC
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To:
Dear mentors,

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

 * Package name     : sitecopy
   Version          : 1:0.17-1
   Upstream contact : Joe Orton <joe@manyfish.uk>
 * URL              : https://notroj.github.io/sitecopy/
 * License          : X11, GPL-2+ with Libtool exception, public-domain, FSFAP, FSFULLR, GPL-2+, LGPL-2+, GPL-3+ with Autoconf exception, FSFUL
 * Vcs              : https://salsa.debian.org/debian/sitecopy
   Section          : web

The source builds the following binary packages:

  sitecopy - program for managing a WWW site via FTP, SFTP, DAV or HTTP

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

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

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

  dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/sitecopy/sitecopy_0.17-1.dsc

Changes since the last upload:

 sitecopy (1:0.17-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release. (Closes: #1122480, #129330, #167277,
     #496988, #515217, #564462, #742661, #472739, #565214,
     #443136, #820519, #655527, #474929, #572427, #565191,
     #471226)
   * New maintainer. (Closes: #1055868)
   * d/control:
     - Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4.
     - Update Homepage field.
     - Bump debhelper version to 14.
     - Remove useless libxml2-dev, add dh-sequence-single-binary.
     - Remove outdated Priority & Rules-Requires-Root fields.
   * Clean up patches.
     - Merged (https://github.com/notroj/sitecopy/pull/20):
       + 04-manpages-addition-fixes.patch
       + 06-sftpdriver.c-fix-for-new-openssh.patch
       + 30-bts320586-manpage-document-sftp.patch
     - Others have been dropped as they are outdated.
   * d/rules:
     - Remove deprecated dh_auto_configure flags "--with-libxml2"
       "--with-expat" "--with-included-expat".
     - Disable upstream test suite, as it's incompatible with sbuild.
     - Fix a path typo in override_dh_auto_install.
   * Modernize d/watch using new upstream URL.
   * Rewrite d/copyright.
   * Add sitecopy.install.
   * d/upstream: Drop useless signature and add upstream metadata.
   * Override a lintian warning about an unexecuted configure.
   * d/docs: Add README.md.
   * Close #325494 as it is "not a bug". (Closes: #325494)

Regards,

#1149706#10
Date:
2026-10-21 16:38:40 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

I have updated the changelog to include more details on the closed bugs.

sitecopy (1:0.17-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release.
     - NEON_COMMON_BUNDLED in neon 0.36 added
       AC_CONFIG_FILES([${neon_bundled_builddir}/Makefile])
       (neon/macros/neon.m4:107). During Debian's autoreconf, this newer macro
       was combined with sitecopy 0.16.6's configure.in:123, which passed
       "\$(top_builddir)/lib/neon" as the bundled neon build directory. When
       config.status evaluated the resulting path, the shell interpreted
       $(top_builddir) as command substitution; since no such command exists, it
       expanded to an empty string and config.status looked for
       /lib/neon/Makefile.in, causing the FTBFS. Upstream fixed this in 0.17 by
       passing the plain path neon/src in configure.ac:130 (Closes: #1122480).
     - https://github.com/notroj/sitecopy/commit/ff90e60
       (Closes: #515217, #564462, #742661)
     - https://github.com/notroj/sitecopy/commit/a862136
       (Closes: #572427, #565191)
     - https://github.com/notroj/sitecopy/pull/51
       (Closes: #443136)
     - NEWS:48 (Closes: #471226)
     - NEWS:39 (Closes: #565214)
     - Close #820519 believed fixed. (Closes: #820519)
   * New maintainer. (Closes: #1055868)
   * d/control:
     - Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4.
     - Update Homepage field.
     - Bump debhelper version to 14.
     - Remove useless libxml2-dev, add dh-sequence-single-binary.
     - Remove outdated Priority & Rules-Requires-Root fields.
   * Clean up patches.
     - Merged (https://github.com/notroj/sitecopy/pull/20):
       + 04-manpages-addition-fixes.patch
       + 06-sftpdriver.c-fix-for-new-openssh.patch
       + 30-bts320586-manpage-document-sftp.patch
     - Others have been dropped as they are outdated.
   * d/rules:
     - Remove deprecated dh_auto_configure flags "--with-libxml2"
       "--with-expat" "--with-included-expat".
     - Disable upstream test suite, as it's incompatible with sbuild.
     - Fix a path typo in override_dh_auto_install.
   * Modernize d/watch using new upstream URL.
   * Rewrite d/copyright.
   * Add sitecopy.install.
   * d/upstream: Drop useless signature and add upstream metadata.
   * Override a lintian warning about an unexecuted configure.
   * d/docs: Add README.md.
   * Close #325494 as it is "not a bug" according to the upstream.
     (Closes: #325494)
   * Remove d/README.Debian, as xsitecopy no longer exists.

Regards,