audacity - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: audacity (main)
version: 3.7.8+dfsg-1
maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Free Ekanayaka [DMD] – David Henningsson [DMD] – Jaromír Mikeš [DMD] – Benjamin Drung [DMD] – Dennis Braun [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.7.4
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 2.4.2~dfsg0-5
oldstable: 3.2.4+dfsg-1
stable: 3.7.3+dfsg-1
testing: 3.7.8+dfsg-1
unstable: 3.7.8+dfsg-1

versioned links

2.4.2~dfsg0-5: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
3.2.4+dfsg-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
3.7.3+dfsg-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
3.7.8+dfsg-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

audacity (73 bugs: 0, 60, 13, 0)
audacity-data (2 bugs: 0, 2, 0, 0)

action needed

A new upstream version is available: 4.0.1 high

A new upstream version 4.0.1 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2026-08-30 Last update: 2026-10-11 23:30

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 4.0.1+dfsg-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 5b969997b8e9a2467460e1175c2456fcbabcdefa
Author: Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 11 20:33:16 2026 +0200

    Update d/changelog

commit c2777dcf3553bae6e557564554f27a446cb24268
Author: Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 11 20:29:28 2026 +0200

    Remove the custom system Qt library path from the RUNPATH

commit fd9bf5f1c6457993e7c28899d422a0ba317c909c
Author: Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 11 20:05:16 2026 +0200

    Remove the versioning for the Depends of the ffmpeg libs

commit 7f46e957d385239ca3827c37394d443f2da6e355
Author: Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 11 17:39:38 2026 +0200

    Update d/changelog

commit 1523a051a3ea166eac8c018805e64d64a605d9be
Author: Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 11 17:38:32 2026 +0200

    Refresh d/copyright with the new codebase

commit 422a62a3079207f973e459f82ddf65355eb8deee
Author: Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 11 17:04:42 2026 +0200

    Refresh the install files

commit 07ff9796dcdb305d06a632b6b2358f7d46f09aac
Author: Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 11 17:03:09 2026 +0200

    Refresh patchset

commit ae3c7286c438f47bf9d885e99db5d29927081e5b
Author: Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 11 17:02:17 2026 +0200

    Make the share dir unversioned

commit 0e1f2c5df668a7b707c034d7b0f87921ac7c2c2a
Author: Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 11 17:01:38 2026 +0200

    Make git optional and not a hard B-D

commit 8d9ba44d43fcfc1b4e1b00affaf6d3ee19e5f76b
Author: Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 11 17:00:49 2026 +0200

    Deactivate fdk-aac support, it is unfree

commit ed39b22c3ea1aded6662bb178bcf0be40712fbbc
Author: Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 11 16:27:51 2026 +0200

    Build with Qt6, change to AU4 environment, refresh B-Ds

commit 91b3492c45f928a9af1a07c945107155ac329fc5
Merge: e665e2a f9a325a
Author: Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 11 14:35:44 2026 +0200

    Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/4.0.1+dfsg'
    
    Update to upstream version '4.0.1+dfsg'
    with Debian dir 5444f9f9807991ca5d3a0c6ce02f610c69073542

commit f9a325ac44ee853e903f89dffc41f53b5b1554d0
Author: Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 11 14:35:04 2026 +0200

    New upstream version 4.0.1+dfsg

commit e665e2a8bc8aaae6f358eec396efad96fd9ddf04
Author: Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 11 14:23:16 2026 +0200

    Download the audacity-sources tarball for the complete sources

commit 00f28daf18fa109ab2b80e2a8d8c87a24711f901
Author: Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 11 14:21:20 2026 +0200

    Adopt DEP-14 branch naming

commit 11821c981eee98b698c82a519b4a37b57687f3d5
Author: Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org>
Date:   Sun Oct 11 14:20:19 2026 +0200

    Refresh excluded files and remove removed files and unused licenses

Created: 2026-10-11 Last update: 2026-10-11 19:32

lintian reports 1 warning normal

Lintian reports 1 warning about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2026-06-28 Last update: 2026-06-28 03:30

debian/patches: 1 patch to forward upstream low

Among the 4 debian patches available in version 3.7.8+dfsg-1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

1 patch 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: 2025-09-29 Last update: 2026-06-27 06:30

Issues found with some translations low

Automatic checks made by the Debian l10n team found some issues with the translations contained in this package. You should check the l10n status report for more information.

Issues can be things such as missing translations, problematic translated strings, outdated PO files, unknown languages, etc.

Created: 2022-10-01 Last update: 2025-12-11 15:02

news

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[2026-07-02] audacity 3.7.8+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-06-26] Accepted audacity 3.7.8+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Dennis Braun)
[2026-01-01] audacity 3.7.7+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-12-27] audacity 3.7.6+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-12-26] Accepted audacity 3.7.7+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Dennis Braun)
[2025-12-10] Accepted audacity 3.7.6+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Dennis Braun)
[2025-12-07] audacity 3.7.5+dfsg-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-12-01] Accepted audacity 3.7.5+dfsg-4 (source) into unstable (Dennis Braun)
[2025-12-01] audacity 3.7.5+dfsg-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-11-25] Accepted audacity 3.7.5+dfsg-3 (source) into unstable (Dennis Braun)
[2025-10-04] audacity 3.7.5+dfsg-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-28] Accepted audacity 3.7.5+dfsg-2 (source) into unstable (Dennis Braun)
[2025-09-16] audacity 3.7.5+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-11] Accepted audacity 3.7.5+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Dennis Braun) (signed by: Andreas Tille)
[2025-03-23] audacity 3.7.3+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-03-17] Accepted audacity 3.7.3+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Dennis Braun)
[2025-01-06] audacity 3.7.1+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-12-31] Accepted audacity 3.7.1+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Dennis Braun)
[2024-11-16] audacity 3.7.0+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-11-10] Accepted audacity 3.7.0+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Dennis Braun)
[2024-10-05] audacity 3.6.4+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-09-22] Accepted audacity 3.6.4+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Dennis Braun)
[2024-09-19] audacity 3.6.3+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-09-13] Accepted audacity 3.6.3+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Dennis Braun)
[2024-07-29] audacity 3.6.1+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-07-22] Accepted audacity 3.6.1+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Dennis Braun)
[2024-07-20] Accepted audacity 3.6.0+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Dennis Braun)
[2024-05-08] audacity 3.5.1+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-04-28] Accepted audacity 3.5.1+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Dennis Braun)
[2023-11-26] audacity 3.4.2+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 75 77
RC: 0
I&N: 62 64
M&W: 13
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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version: 3.7.8+dfsg-1
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