• Bug#747400: bash: Vcs-Bzr is out of date

    From Simon McVittie@21:1/5 to Daniel Kahn Gillmor on Mon Apr 7 16:20:01 2025
    On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 at 16:12:09 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
    On Thu 2014-05-08 05:57:29 -0400, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
    bash’s debian/control lists

    Vcs-Bzr: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~doko/+junk/pkg-bash-debian

    However, this Bazaar repository doesn’t have any versions newer than
    4.2+dfsg-1.

    In the absence of a public Vcs that tracks debian packaging for bash,
    i've gone ahead and generated one that i'd feel comfortable contributing
    to with:

    gbp import-dscs --debsnaps bash

    I also pushed the resulting repository to salsa at >https://salsa.debian.org/debian/bash so hopefully other people will take
    a look at it and consider working with it from there.

    While working on a Debian derivative I found myself wanting to refer to
    the versioning history of bash, so I've continued Daniel's work by
    importing all versions known to snapshot.debian.org between Debian 10
    and now. If there are no more bash uploads before Debian 13 (which seems reasonably likely now that we have passed the toolchain freeze), then this
    will cover the Debian 11, 12 and 13 stable releases.

    I've tried to preserve the branching history for things like NMUs and experimental, so versions debian/5.2+dfsg-0.1 and
    debian/5.2.15-2+loong64 are only available as tags and do not exist on
    any branch (they were not merged as-is by the maintainer, so they are
    "dead ends" in the packaging history). Similarly, the debian/trixie and debian/master branches diverge after 5.2.32-1, to reflect
    testing/unstable and experimental having diverged after that point.

    Similar to what Daniel said, this continues to be unofficial. It is
    hopefully useful to someone other than me, and can be used for reference
    or as a basis for sending patches, but the maintainer's (private?)
    revision history takes precedence, unless the maintainer decides to
    adopt the git repo as official.

    Thanks,
    smcv

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