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Sourcegir2pas
Version0.1.0-2
Changed-ByMazen Neifer
Architecturesource amd64
Distributionunstable
DateSun, 01 Mar 2026 23:40:01 +0100
Changelog
gir2pas (0.1.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Added automatic manual page generation with help2man.
     - Add help2man to Build-Depends in debian/control.
     - Generate debian/gir2pas.1 in debian/rules using help2man.
     - Ensure debhelper installs the generated page via debian/gir2pas.manpages.
   * Added a patch to update FSF contact information.
     - Add fix-fsf-address.patch with DEP-3 machine-readable headers to
       replace physical FSF addresses with URLs in upstream source files
       (LICENSE.md, *.pas, *.lpr).
     - Update debian/copyright directly to use the FSF license URL.
     - Update debian/patches/series to include the new patch.
     - Resolve lintian warning: old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file.
   * Corrected project URL to GitHub in debian/control.
   * Enabled hardening when building gir2pas using FPC.
     - Patch Makefile to support extra compiler options via FPCOPTS.
     - Pass @hardening to FPC in debian/rules to resolve Lintian error:
       statically-linked-binary.
     - Add fp-utils package to Build-Depends as it is required when using
       @hardening in FPC configuration.
.dsc
Sectiondevel
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
Package-Listgir2pas deb devel optional arch=any
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: gir2pas
Source: https://gitlab.com/gtk4pas/gir2pas

Files: *
Copyright: 2011 Andrew Haines <andrewd207@aol.com>
           2020 NiteHawk
           2023 Abou Al Montacir <abou.almontacir@sfr.fr>
           2026 Mazen Neifer <mazen.neifer@edgepulsar.com>
License: GPL-2.0+

License: GPL-2.0+
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 .
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
 with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 .
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
 License version 2 can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2".

Review Information

accepted — allocated to mechtilde 15 days ago, started 15 days ago, completed 15 days ago.

Final Comment

Hello Mazen,

with the next upload please fix the URL in
debian/copyright:24. This URL: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/ results in 404.

Pleasse update standard version to recent one

Thanks

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