The Ubuntu package has autopkgtests for dirspec, that would be nice to
have in Debian as well, the attached debdiff provides those

sorry, the debdiff had a maintainer change leftover, fixed version included

Dear submitter,

as the package dirspec has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1093080

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
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earliest.

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