emboss - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: emboss (main)
version: 6.6.0+dfsg-18
maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team (archive) (DMD) (LowNMU)
uploaders: Andreas Tille [DMD] – Charles Plessy [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: 6.6.0+dfsg-9
oldstable: 6.6.0+dfsg-12
stable: 6.6.0+dfsg-15
testing: 6.6.0+dfsg-18
unstable: 6.6.0+dfsg-18

versioned links

6.6.0+dfsg-9: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.6.0+dfsg-12: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.6.0+dfsg-15: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.6.0+dfsg-18: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

emboss (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)
emboss-data (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
emboss-doc
emboss-lib
emboss-test
jemboss

action needed

Marked for autoremoval on 13 December due to tcsh: #1107024 high

Version 6.6.0+dfsg-18 of emboss is marked for autoremoval from testing on Sat 13 Dec 2025. It depends (transitively) on tcsh, affected by #1107024. You should try to prevent the removal by fixing these RC bugs.

Created: 2025-11-13 Last update: 2025-11-14 10:00

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://emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS/

Created: 2025-08-22 Last update: 2025-11-14 09:01

debian/patches: 1 patch with invalid metadata, 11 patches to forward upstream high

Among the 13 debian patches available in version 6.6.0+dfsg-18 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

1 patch with invalid metadata that ought to be fixed.
11 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: 2025-09-26 00:03

lintian reports 7 errors and 19 warnings high

Lintian reports 7 errors and 19 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-09-26 Last update: 2025-09-26 00:01

Does not build reproducibly during 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: 2024-04-25 Last update: 2025-11-14 05:02

AppStream hints: 1 warning normal

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

jemboss: 1 warning

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

Created: 2020-06-01 Last update: 2021-03-01 00:27

news

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[2025-09-28] emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-18 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-25] Accepted emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-18 (source) into unstable (Andrius Merkys)
[2025-09-25] emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-17 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-25] emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-17 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-21] Accepted emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-17 (source) into unstable (Alexandre Detiste)
[2025-09-08] emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-16 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-05] Accepted emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-16 (source) into unstable (Andrius Merkys)
[2024-04-25] emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-15 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-04-17] Accepted emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-15 (source) into unstable (Andrius Merkys)
[2024-04-01] emboss REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-03-04] Accepted emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-14 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2024-02-01] Accepted emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-13 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2022-10-16] emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-12 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-10-10] Accepted emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-12 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2022-02-21] emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-11 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-02-19] Accepted emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-11 (source) into unstable (Andrius Merkys)
[2021-12-23] Accepted emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-10 (source all amd64) into unstable (Olivier Sallou)
[2021-04-17] emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-9 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-03-28] Accepted emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-9 (source) into unstable (Charles Plessy)
[2020-06-06] emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-8 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-06-03] Accepted emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-8 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2018-08-05] emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-7 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-08-03] Accepted emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-7 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2016-12-15] emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-12-03] Accepted emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-6 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2016-08-31] emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-08-12] Accepted emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-5 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2016-08-09] Accepted emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-4 (source) into unstable (Canberk Koç) (signed by: Andreas Tille)
[2015-12-07] emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2015-12-01] Accepted emboss 6.6.0+dfsg-3 (source all amd64) into unstable (Andreas Tille)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 3
RC: 0
I&N: 2
M&W: 1
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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ubuntu

[Information about Ubuntu for Debian Developers]

version: 6.6.0+dfsg-15ubuntu2
5 bugs
patches for 6.6.0+dfsg-15ubuntu2