brltty - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: brltty (main)
version: 6.9-3
maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Samuel Thibault [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.6.2
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 6.3+dfsg-1+deb11u1
oldstable: 6.5-7+deb12u1
old-bpo: 6.7-3.1+deb13u2~bpo12+1
stable: 6.7-3.1+deb13u3
stable-bpo: 6.9-3~bpo13+1
testing: 6.9-3
unstable: 6.9-3

versioned links

6.3+dfsg-1+deb11u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.5-7+deb12u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.7-3.1+deb13u2~bpo12+1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.7-3.1+deb13u3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.8-5~bpo13+1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.9-3~bpo13+1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.9-3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

brltty (11 bugs: 0, 8, 3, 0)
brltty-espeak
brltty-flite
brltty-speechd
brltty-udeb (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)
brltty-x11 (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
cl-brlapi
libbrlapi-dev
libbrlapi-java
libbrlapi-jni
libbrlapi0.8
python3-brlapi
xbrlapi (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)

action needed

lintian reports 1 error and 23 warnings high

Lintian reports 1 error and 23 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2026-03-06 Last update: 2026-03-17 11:30

version in VCS is newer than in repository, is it time to upload? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version 6.9-4, distribution UNRELEASED) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:

commit a608cdc2a6e05d948684daf35a641997f271ddc6
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Mon Mar 23 02:04:16 2026 +0100

    salsa-ci.yml: Add udeb check

Created: 2026-03-23 Last update: 2026-03-23 02:03

AppStream hints: 2 warnings for brltty normal

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

brltty: 2 warnings

You should get rid of them to provide more metadata about this software.

Created: 2025-05-02 Last update: 2025-05-02 22:01

debian/patches: 6 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 6 debian patches available in version 6.9-3 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

6 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2026-03-06 07:31

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.3 instead of 4.6.2).

Created: 2022-05-11 Last update: 2026-03-06 04:02

news

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[2026-03-08] Accepted brltty 6.9-3~bpo13+1 (source) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2026-03-08] brltty 6.9-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-03-06] Accepted brltty 6.9-3 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2026-02-28] Accepted brltty 6.9-2~bpo13+1 (source) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2026-02-27] Accepted brltty 6.7-3.1+deb13u3 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Samuel Thibault)
[2026-02-26] brltty 6.9-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-02-20] Accepted brltty 6.9-2 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2026-02-17] Accepted brltty 6.9-1 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2026-01-21] Accepted brltty 6.8-5~bpo13+1 (source) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2026-01-21] brltty 6.8-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-01-15] Accepted brltty 6.8-5 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-11-23] Accepted brltty 6.8-4~bpo13+1 (source) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-11-23] brltty 6.8-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-11-17] Accepted brltty 6.8-4 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-11-09] Accepted brltty 6.7-3.1+deb13u2~bpo12+1 (source) into oldstable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-10-19] Accepted brltty 6.7-3.1+deb13u2 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Samuel Thibault)
[2025-09-16] Accepted brltty 6.8-3~bpo13+1 (source) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-09-16] brltty 6.8-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-10] Accepted brltty 6.8-3 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-08-31] Accepted brltty 6.8-2~bpo13+1 (source amd64 all) into stable-backports (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Samuel Thibault)
[2025-08-30] brltty 6.8-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-08-25] Accepted brltty 6.8-2 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-07-12] Accepted brltty 6.8-1 (source amd64 all) into experimental (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-05-13] Accepted brltty 6.7-3.1~bpo12+1 (source) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-05-13] brltty 6.7-3.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-05-02] Accepted brltty 6.7-3.1 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-04-27] Accepted brltty 6.7-2 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2024-10-31] Accepted brltty 6.7-1~bpo12+1 (source amd64 all) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2024-10-23] brltty 6.7-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-10-18] Accepted brltty 6.7-1 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 12 13
RC: 0
I&N: 9 10
M&W: 3
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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ubuntu

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version: 6.7-1ubuntu6
35 bugs