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source: gforth (main)
version: 0.7.3+dfsg-10
maintainer: Bernd Paysan (DMD)
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.7.3
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

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o-o-stable: 0.7.3+dfsg-9
oldstable: 0.7.3+dfsg-9
testing: 0.7.3+dfsg-10
unstable: 0.7.3+dfsg-10

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binaries

gforth (5 bugs: 0, 3, 2, 0)
gforth-common
gforth-lib

action needed

Debci reports failed tests high

unstable: pass (log)
The tests ran in 0:00:32
Last run: 2026-05-28T17:39:56.000Z
Previous status: unknown

testing: tmpfail (log)
The tests ran in an unknown time
Last run: 2026-09-15T18:21:43.055Z
Previous status: unknown

stable: fail (log)
The tests ran in 0:00:12
Last run: 2025-08-10T23:30:40.000Z
Previous status: unknown

Created: 2025-08-11 Last update: 2026-11-10 00:34

Problems while searching for a new upstream version high

uscan had problems while searching for a new upstream version:

more than one main upstream tarballs listed.

Created: 2026-03-17 Last update: 2026-11-09 21:00

A new upstream version is available: 0.7.9.20261025 high

A new upstream version 0.7.9.20261025 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2026-03-17 Last update: 2026-11-09 21:00

debian/patches: 2 patches with invalid metadata, 17 patches to forward upstream high

Among the 20 debian patches available in version 0.7.3+dfsg-10 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

2 patches with invalid metadata that ought to be fixed.
17 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: 2026-03-17 10:00

1 bug where the maintainer asks for help normal

The bug tracker contains 1 bug tagged help: the maintainer asks for help with it.

Created: 2019-03-21 Last update: 2026-11-10 00:30

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 1.0.0-1, 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 5a873233904650a634f9683e23cbb62a714731dd
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Mon Nov 9 15:44:26 2026 +0100

    non-free GFDL boiler plate removed

commit 0e19f6ca95c81ddf7f8e9c31e5fdd1dd7062f151
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Mon Nov 9 15:16:41 2026 +0100

    Remove the requirement of front- and back-cover texts

commit af056f393cec9796abfa9d72f8e6c8894611740b
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Mon Nov 9 14:53:45 2026 +0100

    non-free GFDL boiler plate removed

commit d34e017f3b6521ca6d24afd77a0862fffa01ddea
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Mon Nov 9 13:38:53 2026 +0100

    non-free GFDL boiler plate removed

commit 00fc1dbea62b244d6b69831846d8cd1ac92dfc1b
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Mon Nov 9 12:01:34 2026 +0100

    Move webp into gforth-libcc-minos2 packet

commit 955bc2a32c7c3cb77df536d61b49fdbb057c6b6a
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Mon Nov 9 11:44:42 2026 +0100

    Debug setting host arch

commit f3e338d1eeecad57b32e9d7a145ed9c5988065a5
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Mon Nov 9 11:25:39 2026 +0100

    Fix host arch extraction

commit 31f77aa75e5d87622aeac47b70b3bad2c1d240fd
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Mon Nov 9 10:38:45 2026 +0100

    Add case-style check for the relevant Gforth arch

commit 4a4cff285a513d5079fc501277b86480fa2b697f
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Mon Nov 9 09:59:38 2026 +0100

    Try to get through all the mv commands to check what actually is missing

commit 3fceb78663a5811812a82a06d0fc849b15e1ff69
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sun Nov 8 20:34:27 2026 +0100

    Add harbfuzz and pulse dev packages

commit f6d5c98393dadb39f3bfdbd10d7f59dd831c364c
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sun Nov 8 20:22:48 2026 +0100

    Fix wrongly added unix/v4l2.fs

commit 0568f46192adad47fe53b355947c7424cb6a2336
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sun Nov 8 19:48:29 2026 +0100

    control still should create version 1.0.0

commit bfe1e27aafd95465eef372585364c0b51f5c94d9
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sun Nov 8 19:37:17 2026 +0100

    add , to fix syntax error

commit f241c0480b9df62d58216fc8b2f4ee4c9decd5fa
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sun Nov 8 19:31:32 2026 +0100

    control still should create version 1.0.0

commit ef31cac40b0249d3ea18c09328a1199d8aea8f48
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sun Nov 8 19:19:24 2026 +0100

    Allow chmod to fail

commit e041b5efa18ca0a7f3c63befc967a221a3e730cd
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sun Nov 8 19:02:16 2026 +0100

    Install texlive[-latex]-base to generate PDF documentation

commit f19d41a93a1897be12cb15f885f5ce8b01723fe2
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sun Nov 8 12:48:44 2026 +0100

    Add libcc.patch

commit 99a2902f929637315d166f7e6c85dac70f9cd495
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sun Nov 8 12:25:21 2026 +0100

    incdir patch fixed

commit 1046288022bd65f91a9de6e50f9e4f0474f47618
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sun Nov 8 12:07:08 2026 +0100

    Patch fixed

commit bf8d0e0524c117fbf939ced623c5fd8d969f977b
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sun Nov 8 11:58:36 2026 +0100

    Better way to find the right incdir for wayland

commit 62ccce193c553726d769285f6fab37d4ffb862a3
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sun Nov 8 11:46:56 2026 +0100

    Better way to find the right incdir for wayland

commit e124ff38224fbdcb567498b1c3593e882ed98043
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sun Nov 8 09:46:06 2026 +0100

    Added Makefile patch for Wayland makefile

commit dd8f3767bff531a8bd2461af5e8ff2ebb67de83a
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sat Nov 7 20:19:59 2026 +0100

    Use gcc-15 to avoid out-of-memory fail during build

commit 598969418886ce85ebba88733046c8aa95c47407
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sat Nov 7 20:11:31 2026 +0100

    Use gcc-15 to avoid out-of-memory fail during build

commit 93ed389cb71b04199008f1da0705b67a11e1d317
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sat Nov 7 19:59:53 2026 +0100

    Don't fall back to gforth-itc

commit 47cc3ff233d8eda8eef64008a3b241d71dcc328d
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 16:59:06 2026 +0100

    Use mkdir that doesn't throw on errors

commit 58752dca78603ddd6ddcaef3834e5a08301f5f95
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 16:58:52 2026 +0100

    Use mkdir that doesn't throw on errors

commit 7186ba0bea5b95652fd15aa9591a015cc95a7dc9
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 16:48:00 2026 +0100

    Depend on Gforth to overcome current limitation of tarball build

commit 1bbd3f41a10601a78b4960c9a5e2486cbf28ea1e
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 15:32:11 2026 +0100

    Add a patch to let tarball builds generate at least gforth-itc or gforth-ditc

commit 37f3a9efd246c85dd4dce88bf08600b6188dd5de
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 14:25:11 2026 +0100

    Add more build packages to install

commit eb3fe98f3fc6a70f2fe775b41b4b90671b3334d1
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 14:12:28 2026 +0100

    Install more packages on build

commit f47a9f50b4cd6a3b41b622552461b9a135a20c53
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 14:01:31 2026 +0100

    Don't patch debian/patches/series

commit 13288e84a50792f053e9e2b299050f1ed626ab17
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 13:28:33 2026 +0100

    Configure should not create Debian control files on Debian build

commit ac9451d8383f42db67afd3a5b5a64a2aac81abeb
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 13:02:33 2026 +0100

    Add compat file requesting level 10

commit 85e453a3ed2e48f12d4c80cd72f7132c2400bd6b
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 12:49:11 2026 +0100

    Change dependency to libltdl-dev

commit e834a8bc03ef3b82c048836a9842d2a734e6421f
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 12:43:43 2026 +0100

    Fix typo in package binutils-dev

commit 11630fbbdcf61c46024a7b2ee53f4a453257bd7f
Merge: b06f890 016e085
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 12:34:23 2026 +0100

    Merge branch 'debian/master' of salsa.debian.org:debian/gforth into debian/master

commit b06f890aa724c54e33c4d511f4b78722bf8390c1
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 12:33:28 2026 +0100

    change configure to pristine tarball version

commit 016e08559e5b3de9a6e1c1c5f09f1429dd012512
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de>
Date:   Fri Nov 6 11:53:24 2026 +0100

    signing-key.asc updated

commit 7c80950ef25c4d325edda822535dce05d9ca5062
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Mon Nov 2 09:58:57 2026 +0100

    Removed patches for 0.7.3, which are no longe rnecessary

commit cff77b4f52413e5c1666f4aa06cc9f2e38ca2520
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de>
Date:   Sun Nov 1 16:51:35 2026 +0100

    No patches needed

commit 95bb715b0a3407f12eb2dabfa97dd14168d6c13a
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Sun Nov 1 14:51:42 2026 +0100

    new control and rules files

commit f97e95dc60991bd069bb5cf0078c2ddec3d6f568
Author: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 30 07:29:14 2026 +0100

    Import new upstream version

commit 5f47599a94e2ce9d7f1b9abe11542215b716096e
Merge: 3b84d5e a524642
Author: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 30 07:27:15 2026 +0100

    Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/1.0.0'
    
    Update to upstream version '1.0.0'
    with Debian dir 19242bf3c55f6d706d3832cc6b0377db29c883b6

commit 3b84d5e3df8d3a75fc7ebbebc6e3eb3dfd9fed9a
Author: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 30 07:26:36 2026 +0100

    d/watch:
    
       - version=5
       - do not report snapshot releases any more

commit 0fbdbe32674b71c419557256a806e7cf35a76487
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri Apr 17 11:36:46 2026 +0200

    Save and restore *info* files from auto-clean

commit 27aa3d100de2b1d83a16aae6433b3e49f1fe9dd7
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri Apr 17 09:41:38 2026 +0200

    Save and restore *info* files from auto-clean

commit 12d1d594bb91cd8f38be2530bb55006c83a2f429
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Thu Apr 16 21:07:22 2026 +0200

    Generate gforth-info package for documentation

commit 3e31e732ada548de0fda1717b3c3c78bdb2ceccc
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Thu Apr 16 20:17:50 2026 +0200

    Generate gforth-info package for documentation

commit 5e954a24d25f07439b5438cfe4f86c8626167e74
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Thu Apr 16 20:06:58 2026 +0200

    Generate gforth-info package for documentation

commit 293dac92b0d343c0d278157785171f44409fe6cf
Author: Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date:   Thu Apr 16 19:48:55 2026 +0200

    Generate gforth-info package for documentation

Created: 2026-04-16 Last update: 2026-11-09 16:01

lintian reports 80 warnings normal

Lintian reports 80 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2026-03-17 Last update: 2026-03-17 16:00

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.4 instead of 4.7.3).

Created: 2026-03-31 Last update: 2026-03-31 15:01

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[2026-03-19] gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-10 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-03-16] Accepted gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-10 (source) into unstable (Bernd Paysan) (signed by: Andreas Tille)
[2024-04-20] gforth REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-01-06] gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-9 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-01-03] Accepted gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-9 (source) into unstable (Peter Pentchev)
[2018-12-25] Accepted gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-8 (source) into unstable (Peter Pentchev)
[2018-09-21] gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-7 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-09-19] Accepted gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-7 (source) into unstable (Peter Pentchev)
[2018-05-21] gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-05-18] Accepted gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-6 (source) into unstable (Peter Pentchev)
[2018-01-21] gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-01-15] Accepted gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-5 (source) into unstable (Peter Pentchev)
[2017-01-20] gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-01-09] Accepted gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-4 (source) into unstable (Peter Pentchev)
[2016-04-19] gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-04-13] Accepted gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-3 (source) into unstable (Peter Pentchev)
[2016-04-12] Accepted gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-2 (source) into unstable (Peter Pentchev)
[2016-04-11] Accepted gforth 0.7.3+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Peter Pentchev) (signed by: Gianfranco Costamagna)
[2014-10-25] gforth 0.7.2+dfsg1-1.1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2014-10-14] Accepted gforth 0.7.2+dfsg1-1.1 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2014-04-26] gforth 0.7.2+dfsg1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2014-04-20] Accepted gforth 0.7.2+dfsg1-1 (source amd64 all) (Peter Pentchev)
[2013-01-12] gforth 0.7.0+ds2-0.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2013-01-01] Accepted gforth 0.7.0+ds2-0.1 (source i386 all) (David Prévot)
[2012-09-24] gforth 0.7.0+ds1-7 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2012-09-11] Accepted gforth 0.7.0+ds1-7 (source i386 all) (Peter Pentchev) (signed by: Nicholas Bamber)
[2011-08-03] gforth 0.7.0+ds1-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2011-07-23] Accepted gforth 0.7.0+ds1-6 (source i386 all) (Peter Pentchev) (signed by: Nicholas Bamber)
[2011-07-09] gforth 0.7.0+ds1-5.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2011-06-28] Accepted gforth 0.7.0+ds1-5.1 (source i386 all) (Luk Claes)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 5
RC: 0
I&N: 3
M&W: 2
F&P: 0
patch: 0
help: 1

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