balsa - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: balsa (main)
version: 2.6.5-1
maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Alan Baghumian [DMD] – Daniel Kahn Gillmor [DMD] – Jeremy Bícha [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.7.2
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 2.6.1-1
oldstable: 2.6.4-2
stable: 2.6.4-4
testing: 2.6.4-4
unstable: 2.6.5-1

versioned links

2.6.1-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.6.4-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.6.4-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.6.5-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

balsa (26 bugs: 0, 20, 6, 0)
balsa-data

action needed

Marked for autoremoval on 04 October: #1114058 high

Version 2.6.4-4 of balsa is marked for autoremoval from testing on Sat 04 Oct 2025. It is affected by #1114058. You should try to prevent the removal by fixing these RC bugs.

Created: 2025-09-12 Last update: 2025-09-17 21:02

Multiarch hinter reports 1 issue(s) normal

There are issues with the multiarch metadata for this package.

balsa-data could be marked Multi-Arch: foreign

Created: 2021-09-27 Last update: 2025-09-17 19:32

Fails to build during reproducibility testing normal

A package building reproducibly enables third parties to verify that the source matches the distributed binaries. It has been identified that this source package produced different results, failed to build or had other issues in a test environment. Please read about how to improve the situation!

Created: 2025-09-13 Last update: 2025-09-17 17:30

AppStream hints: 1 warning for balsa normal

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

balsa: 1 warning

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

Created: 2018-06-04 Last update: 2025-09-16 10:34

lintian reports 3 warnings normal

Lintian reports 3 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-09-16 Last update: 2025-09-16 10:32

RFH: The maintainer is looking for help with this package. normal

The current maintainer is looking for someone who can help with the maintenance of this package. If you are interested in this package, please consider helping out. One way you can help is offer to be a co-maintainer or triage bugs in the BTS. Please see bug number #642906 for more information.

Created: 2017-12-02 Last update: 2017-12-02 00:25

testing migrations

This package will soon be part of the auto-gpgme1.0 transition. You might want to ensure that your package is ready for it. You can probably find supplementary information in the debian-release archives or in the corresponding release.debian.org bug.
excuses:
- Migration status for balsa (2.6.4-4 to 2.6.5-1): Will attempt migration (Any information below is purely informational)
- Additional info:
- ∙ ∙ Updating balsa will fix bugs in testing: #1114058
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/b/balsa.html
- ∙ ∙ autopkgtest for balsa/2.6.5-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on amd64 - info ♻
- ∙ ∙ Waiting for reproducibility test results on arm64 - info ♻
- ∙ ∙ Required age reduced by 3 days because of autopkgtest
- ∙ ∙ 2 days old (needed 2 days)

news

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[2025-09-15] Accepted balsa 2.6.5-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha)
[2025-09-15] Accepted balsa 2.6.4-5 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha)
[2025-03-20] balsa 2.6.4-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-03-17] Accepted balsa 2.6.4-4 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha) (signed by: Jeremy Bicha)
[2024-12-26] Accepted balsa 2.6.4-3 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha) (signed by: Jeremy Bicha)
[2024-08-01] balsa REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-01-16] balsa 2.6.4-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-01-13] Accepted balsa 2.6.4-2 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bicha)
[2022-12-12] balsa 2.6.4-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-12-09] Accepted balsa 2.6.4-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bicha)
[2021-09-29] balsa 2.6.3-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-09-25] Accepted balsa 2.6.3-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bicha)
[2021-04-22] Accepted balsa 2.6.2-1 (source all amd64) into experimental, experimental (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: dkg@debian.org)
[2020-07-11] Accepted balsa 2.5.6-2+deb10u1 (source) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort)
[2020-07-06] balsa 2.6.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-07-03] Accepted balsa 2.6.1-1 (source) into unstable (Daniel Kahn Gillmor)
[2020-04-17] balsa 2.6.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-04-14] Accepted balsa 2.6.0-2 (source) into unstable (Daniel Kahn Gillmor)
[2020-04-13] Accepted balsa 2.6.0-1 (source) into unstable (Daniel Kahn Gillmor)
[2020-03-18] balsa 2.5.9-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-03-15] Accepted balsa 2.5.9-4 (source) into unstable (Daniel Kahn Gillmor)
[2020-02-26] Accepted balsa 2.5.9-3 (source) into unstable (Daniel Kahn Gillmor)
[2020-02-18] Accepted balsa 2.5.9-2 (source) into unstable (Daniel Kahn Gillmor)
[2020-02-18] Accepted balsa 2.5.9-1 (source) into unstable (Daniel Kahn Gillmor)
[2020-02-13] Accepted balsa 2.5.9-0.1 (source) into experimental (Daniel Kahn Gillmor)
[2018-12-31] balsa 2.5.6-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-12-23] Accepted balsa 2.5.6-2 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bicha)
[2018-09-17] balsa 2.5.6-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-09-04] Accepted balsa 2.5.6-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bicha)
[2018-09-04] Accepted balsa 2.5.5-2 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bicha)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 26
RC: 0
I&N: 20
M&W: 6
F&P: 0
patch: 0

links

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ubuntu

[Information about Ubuntu for Debian Developers]

version: 2.6.4-4build1
7 bugs