Almost I did a NMU. Attached the nmu diff patch for it.
I hope this update to bugreport #852963 will trigger some reaction.
diff -Nru git-sh-1.1/debian/changelog git-sh-1.1/debian/changelog --- git-sh-1.1/debian/changelog 2011-03-06 22:30:05.000000000 +0100 +++ git-sh-1.1/debian/changelog 2017-06-03 22:50:07.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ +git-sh (1.1-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Mentions /usr/bin/git-shell in description. Closes: #852963 + * First upload in more then six years. + - Standards-Version from 3.9.1 to 3.9.8, no changes needed + - Build-Depends on debhelper, it is version 10.x.y. these days + - compat: version from 7 to 9 + - watch: deprecated githubredir replace with working content + this revealed that upstream has a new version for four years + + -- Geert Stappers <stapp...@debian.org> Sat, 03 Jun 2017 22:50:07 +0200 + git-sh (1.1-1) unstable; urgency=low * Initial release (Closes: #590440) diff -Nru git-sh-1.1/debian/compat git-sh-1.1/debian/compat --- git-sh-1.1/debian/compat 2011-03-06 21:02:29.000000000 +0100 +++ git-sh-1.1/debian/compat 2017-06-03 21:58:45.000000000 +0200 @@ -1 +1 @@ -7 +9 diff -Nru git-sh-1.1/debian/control git-sh-1.1/debian/control --- git-sh-1.1/debian/control 2011-03-06 22:30:05.000000000 +0100 +++ git-sh-1.1/debian/control 2017-06-03 22:36:06.000000000 +0200 @@ -2,15 +2,18 @@ Maintainer: Alex Morega <a...@grep.ro> Section: vcs Priority: optional -Standards-Version: 3.9.1 -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.3.8) +Standards-Version: 3.9.8 +Build-Depends: debhelper Homepage: http://rtomayko.github.com/git-sh/ Package: git-sh Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, git -Description: a git shell +Description: customized bash environment suitable for git work git-sh starts an interactive bash(1) session modified for git-heavy workflows. Typical usage is to change into the directory of a git work tree or bare repository and run the git-sh command to start an interactive shell session. + . + Not be confused with /usr/bin/git-shell for restricting SSH users. + /usr/bin/git-shell is in the default git package. diff -Nru git-sh-1.1/debian/watch git-sh-1.1/debian/watch --- git-sh-1.1/debian/watch 2011-03-06 22:30:05.000000000 +0100 +++ git-sh-1.1/debian/watch 2017-06-03 22:13:36.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ -# Compulsory line, this is a version 3 file -version=3 +# Compulsory line, this is a uscan version 4 watch file +version=4 # github repository -http://githubredir.debian.net/github/rtomayko/git-sh/ (.*)\.tar\.gz +opts="filenamemangle=s%(?:.*?)?v?(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz%git-sh-$1.tar.gz%" \ + https://github.com/rtomayko/git-sh/tags \ + (?:.*?/)?v?(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate + +# l l