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Version1.5.1-1
Changed-ByOlly Betts
Architecturesource amd64 all
Distributionexperimental
DateWed, 04 Mar 2026 14:51:27 +1300
Sourcexapian-core
Changelog
xapian-core (1.5.1-1) experimental; urgency=medium
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   * Upstream 2.0.0 release candidate packaged for uploading to experimental to
     facilitate wider testing.
.dsc
Package-Listlibxapian-dev deb libdevel optional arch=any
libxapian45 deb libs optional arch=any
xapian-doc deb doc optional arch=all
xapian-examples deb doc optional arch=any
xapian-tools deb utils optional arch=any
Sectionlibdevel
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
debian/copyright
This is the Debian package of the Xapian search engine library.  This
package was originally created and maintained by Richard Boulton
<richard@tartarus.org>.  It is currently maintained by Olly Betts
<olly@survex.com>.

It was downloaded from https://xapian.org/download

Upstream Authors:

        Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>
        Hein Ragas <hragas@users.sourceforge.net>
        Sam Liddicott <samjam@users.sourceforge.net>
	Ananova Ltd
	Orange PCS Ltd
	BrightStation PLC
	Dr Martin Porter
	Free Software Foundation, Inc.
	Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc.
	Richard Boulton
	Lemur Consulting Ltd

Copyright:

  Copyright (C) 2002-2026 Olly Betts
  Copyright (C) 2001,2002 Ananova Ltd
  Copyright (C) 1999,2000,2001 BrightStation PLC
  Copyright (C) 2001 Hein Ragas
  Copyright (C) 2003,2006,2007,2009,2010,2011 Richard Boulton
  Copyright (C) 2006,2007,2008,2009,2010 Lemur Consulting Ltd
  Copyright (C) 2007,2008 Yung-chung Lin
  Copyright (C) 2007 Jenny Black
  Copyright (C) 2007 Deron Meranda
  Copyright (C) 2009 Kan-Ru Chen
  Copyright (C) 2010 Adam Sjøgren
  Copyright (C) 2010 Evgeny Sizikov
  Copyright (C) 2011 Brandon Schaefer
  Copyright (C) 2011 Action Without Borders
  Copyright (C) 2011,2012 Dan Colish
  Copyright (C) 2012 Mihai Bivol
  Copyright (C) 2012 Gaurav Arora
  Copyright (C) 2013,2014 Aarsh Shah
  Copyright (C) 2016,2017 Vivek Pal
  Copyright (C) 2016,2017 Richhiey Thomas
  Copyright (C) 2018 Uppinder Chugh
  Copyright (C) 2018 Guruprasad Hegde
  Copyright (C) 2019 Vaibhav Kansagara
  Copyright (C) 2020 Dipanshu Garg

  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.

  See /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 for the full text of the GNU GPL.

The snowball sources in the languages subdirectory are licensed under
the three clause BSD license:

  Copyright (c) 2001, Dr Martin Porter
  Copyright (c) 2004,2005, Richard Boulton
  Copyright (c) 2006-2026, Olly Betts

  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

    * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
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The following files are licensed under the MIT/X licence:

    common/serialise-double.cc
    common/serialise-double.h

  Copyright (C) 2006,2007,2008,2009,2012,2015,2025 Olly Betts

  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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The files queryparser/lemon.c and queryparser/queryparser.lt (which are
a parser generator and its output template file) bear the following
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  The authors of this program disclaim copyright.

  The author disclaims copyright to this source code.

The file m4/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4 is licensed as follows:

   Copyright (c) 2008 Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com>
   Copyright (c) 2012 Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
   Copyright (c) 2013 Roy Stogner <roystgnr@ices.utexas.edu>
   Copyright (c) 2014, 2015 Google Inc.; contributed by Alexey Sokolov <sokolov@google.com>
   Copyright (c) 2015 Paul Norman <penorman@mac.com>
   Copyright (c) 2015 Moritz Klammler <moritz@klammler.eu>
   Copyright (c) 2016, 2018 Krzesimir Nowak <qdlacz@gmail.com>
   Copyright (c) 2019 Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
   Copyright (c) 2020 Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
   Copyright (c) 2021, 2024 Jörn Heusipp <osmanx@problemloesungsmaschine.de>
   Copyright (c) 2015, 2022, 2023, 2024 Olly Betts

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  Copyright (C) 1987, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000
        Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  Copyright (C) 2004,2009,2010,2015 Olly Betts (reworked to allow compilation as C++)

  See /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2 for the full licence text.

The file include/xapian/intrusive_ptr.h is licensed under the Boost Software
License, Version 1.0:

  Copyright (c) 2001, 2002 Peter Dimov
  Copyright (c) 2011,2013,2014,2015,2017,2022 Olly Betts

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       LLVM Team

       University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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   ==============================================================================

   Copyright (c) 2009-2014 by the contributors listed in CREDITS.TXT

   Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
   of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
   in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
   to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
   copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
   furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

   The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
   all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

   THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
   IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
   FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
   AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
   LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
   OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
   THE SOFTWARE.

The files common/msvc_dirent.cc and common/msvc_dirent.h are licensed as:

    Copyright Kevlin Henney, 1997, 2003. All rights reserved.

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    documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided
    that this copyright and permissions notice appear in all copies and
    derivatives.

    This software is supplied "as is" without express or implied warranty.

The Debian packaging is licensed under the MIT/X licence:

  Copyright (C) 2004,2005,2006 Lemur Consulting Ltd
  Copyright (C) 2006-2026 Olly Betts

  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
  deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
  rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
  sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
  furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
  all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
  IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
  AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
  LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
  FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
  IN THE SOFTWARE.

Review Information

accepted — allocated to awm 5 hours ago, started 5 hours ago, completed 5 hours ago.

Final Comment

Please add credit for:

docs/apidoc/html/dynsections.js: Copyright (C) 1997-2020 by Dimitri van Heesch
docs/apidoc/html/menu.js: Copyright (C) 1997-2020 by Dimitri van Heesch
docs/apidoc/html/menudata.js: Copyright (C) 1997-2020 by Dimitri van Heesch

Also it would be great if you could find the time to convert the debian/copyright
to a DEP-5 format... :-)

Thanks!

Public Notes

5 hours ago ● public

Search for authors

Command: ag -i 'copyright .* (by|rights|reserved)[. ]' | sed -e 's/^.*Copyright //i' -e 's/\(20\|19\)[0-9][0-9][, -]*//g' -e 's/[., ]*ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.*$//i' | sort -i | uniq -i
Exit code: 0

(C) by Dimitri van Heesch
(c) by Scriptics Corporation.
(c) by the contributors listed in CREDITS.TXT
(c) Google Inc.; contributed by Alexey Sokolov <sokolov@google.com>
is now held by BrightStation, which
Kevlin Henney
5 hours ago ● public

Lintian

Command: lintian -Iiv -L '>=warning' --show-overrides --color=never ../$(basename $PWD)_*.changes
Exit code: 0

N:
W: xapian-core source: obsolete-debian-watch-file-standard 3 [debian/watch]
N: 
N:   The version= line in the debian/watch file in this package declares an
N:   obsolete version. Please upgrade to more current version.
N: 
N:   Please refer to the uscan(1) manual page for details.
N: 
N:   Visibility: warning
N:   Show-Always: no
N:   Check: debian/watch/standard
N: 

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