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general

source: chkrootkit (main)
version: 0.59-1
maintainer: Debian Security Tools (DMD)
uploaders: Marcos Fouces [DMD] – Richard Lewis [DMD]
arch: 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: 0.54-1
oldstable: 0.57-2
stable: 0.58b-5
testing: 0.59-1
unstable: 0.59-1

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]
0.59-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

chkrootkit (6 bugs: 0, 4, 2, 0)

action needed

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: 2025-11-26 Last update: 2026-05-14 18:30

debian/patches: 86 patches with invalid metadata, 3 patches to forward upstream high

Among the 91 debian patches available in version 0.59-1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

86 patches with invalid metadata that ought to be fixed.
3 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: 2026-05-04 21:33

1 new commit 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 00485d1b843a9a316da68a1b91b031ed66fd7fe6
Author: Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu May 7 18:23:58 2026 +0200

    rename files under debian/ for upcoming debhelper 14/15 compatibility

Created: 2026-05-07 Last update: 2026-05-07 18:33

news

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[2026-05-04] Accepted chkrootkit 0.59-1 (source) into unstable (Richard Lewis) (signed by: Sven Geuer)
[2025-09-30] chkrootkit 0.58b-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-30] chkrootkit 0.58b-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-28] Accepted chkrootkit 0.58b-6 (source) into unstable (Richard Lewis) (signed by: Sven Geuer)
[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)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 6
RC: 0
I&N: 4
M&W: 2
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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ubuntu

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version: 0.58b-6build1
13 bugs (2 patches)