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general

source: chkrootkit (main)
version: 0.58b-5
maintainer: Debian Security Tools (DMD)
uploaders: Marcos Fouces [DMD]
arch: any
std-ver: 4.7.0
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 0.54-1
oldstable: 0.57-2
stable: 0.58b-5
testing: 0.58b-5
unstable: 0.58b-5

versioned links

0.54-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.57-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.58b-5: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

chkrootkit (7 bugs: 0, 5, 2, 0)

action needed

Marked for autoremoval on 10 October: #1096431 high

Version 0.58b-5 of chkrootkit is marked for autoremoval from testing on Fri 10 Oct 2025. It is affected by #1096431. The removal of chkrootkit will also cause the removal of (transitive) reverse dependencies: forensics-all, forensics-extra. You should try to prevent the removal by fixing these RC bugs.

Created: 2025-09-04 Last update: 2025-09-11 00:05

Problems while searching for a new upstream version high

uscan had problems while searching for a new upstream version:

In debian/watch no matching files for watch source
  ftp://ftp.chkrootkit.org/pub/seg/pac/

Created: 2025-08-20 Last update: 2025-09-10 20:00

debian/patches: 87 patches with invalid metadata high

Among the 88 debian patches available in version 0.58b-5 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

87 patches with invalid metadata that ought to be fixed.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2025-06-24 18:06

8 new commits since last upload, is it time to release? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have new commits in its VCS but has not yet updated debian/changelog. You should consider updating the Debian changelog and uploading this new version into the archive.

Here are the relevant commit logs:

commit c6654eccfef1af4ac089dc9755a73d7cd93b2e41
Author: Richard Lewis <richard.lewis.debian@googlemail.com>
Date:   Thu Sep 11 00:01:33 2025 +0100

    autopkgtest: refuse to run if $AUTOPKGTEST_TMP is not set
    
    And cleanup $CLEAN at the end

commit 8c860b4cb88c1697b38466d5f026946d1a82c6bd
Author: Richard Lewis <richard.lewis.debian@googlemail.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 10 21:33:46 2025 +0100

    autopkgtest: run through shfmt to fix indentation

commit d3e38a7b3843a918bb6813e4f76cfa7f6120bc6b
Author: Richard Lewis <richard.lewis.debian@googlemail.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 10 21:26:37 2025 +0100

    autopkgtest: fix failure with in sbuild if passwd not installed
    
    At the start of the test we tried to ensure all the binaries that could be tested were available,
    but we omitted things provided by essential packages coreutils and passwd. passwd is no longer
    essential so chfn, login can be missing from the chroot. This commit fixes that, and also
    makes the logic a bit more robust by only creating things that are missing, and not trying to move some
    existig things out of the way: this should make the test more robust and need fewer changes if other
    things are removed from the essential set in future (i hope)

commit f48f5aaf2a364be2a3a0326aa2c1acb844a6ddd6
Author: Richard Lewis <richard.lewis.debian@googlemail.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 10 00:54:58 2025 +0100

    fix gcc-15 compilation
    
    chklastlog installs a signal handler (to report progress - not actualy used),
    but omited any argument, and had a (very) old-school function prototype, which
    gcc-15 refuses to accept. We modify the existing patch to fix this

commit df0ee1c03f2188767a850ddd0f011e94192ef896
Author: Richard Lewis <richard.lewis.debian@googlemail.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 10 00:24:14 2025 +0100

    Update debian/test/find-debs-that-are-enhanced
    
    slogin is no longer shipped by debian (this was previously in openssh-client.
    because 'ssh' is still tested by the check for 'ebury' we do not need to
    make any changes to debian/control)
    
    nb: this just fixes the salsa pipeline, it is not part of the autopkgtest
    or the package functionality

commit 96e3ebc9513c884d7603243ffad2b984df8aa1e6
Author: Richard Lewis <richard.lewis.debian@googlemail.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 10 00:21:36 2025 +0100

    fix indentation in debian/tests/find-debs-that-are-enhanced

commit 3c746edf3c691fa24aa5b007bb0adf4de98ec904
Author: Richard Lewis <richard.lewis.debian@googlemail.com>
Date:   Sat Jun 14 13:34:56 2025 +0100

    d/control: Update Standards-Version to 4.7.2 (no changes needed)

commit 272298f6349808506921f3d59ec77d2b4bceb785
Author: Richard Lewis <richard.lewis.debian@googlemail.com>
Date:   Sat Jun 14 13:33:54 2025 +0100

    d/copyright: Replace old FSF address with URL
    
    Fixes a Lintian warning

Created: 2025-09-11 Last update: 2025-09-11 00:06

lintian reports 1 warning normal

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

Created: 2025-05-09 Last update: 2025-05-09 08:32

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.2 instead of 4.7.0).

Created: 2025-02-21 Last update: 2025-06-24 17:27

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[2025-07-15] chkrootkit 0.58b-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-06-24] Accepted chkrootkit 0.58b-5 (source) into unstable (Richard Lewis) (signed by: Sven Geuer)
[2025-03-13] chkrootkit 0.58b-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-03-06] Accepted chkrootkit 0.58b-4 (source) into unstable (Richard Lewis) (signed by: Sven Geuer)
[2024-10-10] chkrootkit 0.58b-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-09-30] Accepted chkrootkit 0.58b-3 (source) into unstable (Richard Lewis) (signed by: Simon Josefsson)
[2024-09-26] Accepted chkrootkit 0.58b-2 (source) into unstable (Richard Lewis) (signed by: Simon Josefsson)
[2023-10-01] chkrootkit 0.58b-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-09-29] Accepted chkrootkit 0.58b-1 (source) into unstable (Richard Lewis) (signed by: Samuel Henrique)
[2023-04-12] chkrootkit 0.57-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-03-22] Accepted chkrootkit 0.57-2 (source) into unstable (Richard Lewis) (signed by: Marcos Fouces)
[2023-02-19] chkrootkit 0.57-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-02-09] Accepted chkrootkit 0.57-1 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces)
[2021-12-26] chkrootkit 0.55-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-12-23] Accepted chkrootkit 0.55-4 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces)
[2021-12-07] Accepted chkrootkit 0.55-3 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces)
[2021-11-24] Accepted chkrootkit 0.55-2 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces)
[2021-08-28] chkrootkit 0.55-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-08-22] Accepted chkrootkit 0.55-1 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces)
[2021-01-12] chkrootkit 0.54-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-07] Accepted chkrootkit 0.54-1 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces)
[2020-10-12] chkrootkit 0.53-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-10-06] Accepted chkrootkit 0.53-2 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces)
[2019-09-21] chkrootkit 0.53-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-09-15] Accepted chkrootkit 0.53-1 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces) (signed by: Giovani Augusto Ferreira)
[2019-03-11] chkrootkit 0.52-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-03-01] Accepted chkrootkit 0.52-3 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces) (signed by: Samuel Henrique)
[2019-02-09] Accepted chkrootkit 0.50-4+deb9u1 (source) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Moritz Schlarb) (signed by: Christoph Martin)
[2018-04-25] chkrootkit 0.52-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-04-19] Accepted chkrootkit 0.52-2 (source) into unstable (Raphaël Hertzog)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 8
RC: 0
I&N: 5
M&W: 2
F&P: 1
patch: 0

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