Instead of the signify tool from OpenBSD as most users expect, Debian's signify package is this unmaintained Perl script for attaching a random signature to an email: signify.sourceforge.net. The final release on the official site was 1.11 in 2003 but Debian has 1.14 from 2004.
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The developer started making releases via the Debian package so it had 1.12, 1.13 and 1.14 releases from 2003-2004 which were never published via the official site. In 2015, Debian put it on life support by porting it from Perl 5 and some other changes to stop it being dropped.
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There's a bonus spelling fix in 2015 and in my opinion, they probably should have taken the advice from the example they were fixing:
-Thus, writting something like "``Stop,'' she said." will appear as
+Thus, writing something like "``Stop,'' she said." will appear as
expected.