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general

source: brltty (main)
version: 6.8-5
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+deb13u2
stable-bpo: 6.8-5~bpo13+1
testing: 6.8-5
unstable: 6.8-5

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+deb13u2: [.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]
6.8-5: [.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

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 6.8-6, 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 967559bf0c88751b41409b02bddb33947371cc67
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Sun Feb 15 18:32:48 2026 +0100

    patches/git-speechd-service: Start BRLTTY after Speech Dispatcher

Created: 2026-02-16 Last update: 2026-02-16 10:55

lintian reports 42 warnings normal

Lintian reports 42 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2026-01-16 Last update: 2026-01-16 06:00

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: 5 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 9 debian patches available in version 6.8-5 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

5 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: 2026-01-16 09:32

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: 2026-01-16 01:02

testing migrations

This package will soon be part of the auto-icu 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.

news

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[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)
[2024-05-09] Accepted brltty 6.6-5~bpo12+1 (source) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2024-05-03] brltty 6.6-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-03-25] Accepted brltty 6.6-5 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2024-02-17] Accepted brltty 6.6-4+exp1 (source amd64 all) into experimental (Samuel Thibault)
[2023-11-27] Accepted brltty 6.5-7+deb12u1~bpo11+1 (source) into bullseye-backports (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Samuel Thibault)
[2023-09-16] Accepted brltty 6.5-7+deb12u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Samuel Thibault)
[2023-09-07] Accepted brltty 6.6-4~bpo12+1 (source) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2023-09-07] brltty 6.6-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

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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version: 6.7-1ubuntu5
35 bugs