• debian/copyright is in machine-readable format (Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/), Files: * gives GPL-3 with Copyright: Philip Leifeld, Claudia Zucca, Files: debian/* gives GPL-3 for the Debian R Packages Maintainers, and the one stand-alone License: GPL-3 paragraph matches the short name used and refers to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.
• The only licence declaration in the source is License: GPL-3 in DESCRIPTION; grep over R/, man/, tests/, vignettes/ and inst/ for Copyright, (C), ©, SPDX-License-Identifier, Licensed under, Permission is hereby, GNU General Public, GNU Lesser, Apache License, Mozilla Public, public domain, All rights reserved (and case-insensitive licen[cs]e|copyleft) found no other holder or licence, so no Files stanza is missing.
• Files-Excluded: inst/doc/texreg.pdf is consistent with the tree: the PDF is absent, inst/doc/texreg.Rnw and vignettes/texreg.Rnw (identical copies, both listed in upstream's MD5) are present, and nothing else from upstream's file list is missing.
• build/partial.rdb (61 bytes, gzip) is an R lazy-load fragment left over from upstream's own build of the CRAN tarball, not a shipped deliverable: build/ is not an R package component, its content is generated from R/texreg.R, R/extract.R and R/praise.R, which are all present, and R CMD INSTALL creates its own build/ directory, so dh-r neither installs nor reads this copy. No DFSG or licensing consequence; at most leftover packaging noise in the orig tarball, not worth a repack on its own.
• tests/files/PlotDataFrame.RDS, tests/files/PlotDataFrameCI.RDS, tests/files/PlotDataFrameOR.RDS, tests/files/jss_htmlreg_markdown.RDS, tests/files/jss_htmlreg_word.RDS, tests/files/jss_screenreg_lm.RDS, tests/files/jss_texreg_bold_customnote_digits.RDS, tests/files/jss_texreg_dcolumn_booktabs.RDS, tests/files/jss_texreg_gls.RDS, tests/files/jss_texreg_robust.RDS: all ten are test fixtures of the package's own suite, produced by the tests themselves (the generating saveRDS() calls are kept as comments in tests/testthat/test-jss.R and tests/testthat/test-plotreg.R) and read back with readRDS(); they are not opaque third-party binary data. I did not decompress them (binary).
• MD5 is upstream's own checksum list for the CRAN tarball; it still names the excluded inst/doc/texreg.pdf. Nothing in the build reads it, so the stale line is harmless.
• Packaging files read in full: debian/control, rules, changelog, copyright, docs, source/format, tests/control, tests/run-unit-test, upstream/metadata, salsa-ci.yml.
• Source format 3.0 (quilt); no debian/patches at all, so there is no patch to check for DEP-3 headers or forwarding; no maintainer scripts, no maintscripts, no debconf templates.
• debhelper-compat 14 with dh $@ --buildsystem R (dh-r); dh_auto_test is not overridden and Debian::Debhelper::Buildsystem::R defines no test method, so the test suite is run only by autopkgtest, which is the R team's normal arrangement, and the missing dev-dependencies in Build-Depends are not a build problem.
• Dependencies: r-cran-httr in Build-Depends is exactly Imports: httr in DESCRIPTION; r-pkg-team-core-architecture (Build-Depends and Depends) is the metapackage shipped by dh-r 20260707 according to apt-cache, so both fields are satisfiable; no versioned dependency is unsatisfiable and none is tighter than needed.
• Tests: debian/tests/control runs run-unit-test with Restrictions: allow-stderr and depends on the package plus the test packages; the script copies /usr/share/doc/r-cran-texreg/tests (installed by debian/docs) and runs testthat.R, and every optional package the test files use (apollo, forecast, Bergm, betareg, bife, broom, biglm, lme4, Matrix, huxtable, plm, spatialreg, logitr, ...) is guarded by skip_if_not_installed() before its require()/library(), so their absence skips tests rather than failing them.
• man/*.Rd and NAMESPACE are roxygen2 output and the roxygen blocks they are generated from are shipped in R/*.R, so the documentation's preferred form is present.
• Changelog is sane: single initial entry, r-cran-texreg (1.40+ds-1) to unstable, matching the +ds orig tarball and the CRAN upstream release of 2026-08-24; Standards-Version: 4.7.4 matches Policy 4.7.4.1 (current).
• The vignette text vignettes/texreg.Rnw reproduces the author's own JSS 2013 article, held by the same copyright holder named in debian/copyright, and draws its figures with TikZ (no included image files are referenced), so nothing in it needs a separate stanza.
• Coverage: the whole 157-file tree was inventoried (DESCRIPTION, MD5, NAMESPACE, R/ 3 files, man/ 129 files, tests/ 17 files, inst/ 2 files, vignettes/ 2 files, build/ 1 file, debian/ 13 files); text files were grep-searched and the debian/ files were read in full.
• uscan found the packaged version as the newest upstream release (upstream 1.40, packaged 1.40+ds).
• Every pointer of debian/copyright to /usr/share/common-licenses names a file that is there (GPL-3).

• Whether the installed package will offer a readable vignette("texreg"): the +ds repack removed inst/doc/texreg.pdf, which can only be regenerated from vignettes/texreg.Rnw (LaTeX is not in Build-Depends); whether R CMD INSTALL rebuilds the vignette or ships only the .Rnw is decided by a build I cannot run. Only a build or installation would show it, and either way it would be minor.
• The ten tests/files/*.RDS and build/partial.rdb were not decompressed or inspected (binary files), only judged by path, name and the code that writes/reads them.

None.