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

Sorry for top posting:

Please also dcut me upload permission:

dcut ftp-master dm --uid 4E098D1900AA3F721899261409B3316E13A11EFC 
autogen

Thanks & cheers,

On 2026-08-28 18:11, Luke Yasuda wrote:
> Package: sponsorship-requests
> Severity: normal
> 
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> I would also like salsa maintainer access, thanks
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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 <[email protected]>
>  * 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,