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source: expect (main)
version: 5.45.4-7
maintainer: Sergei Golovan (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: 5.45.4-2
oldstable: 5.45.4-2
stable: 5.45.4-4
testing: 5.45.4-4
unstable: 5.45.4-7

versioned links

5.45.4-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.45.4-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.45.4-7: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

expect (4 bugs: 0, 2, 2, 0)
tcl-expect (2 bugs: 0, 0, 2, 0)
tcl-expect-dev

action needed

2 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 2 bugs, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2026-04-06 Last update: 2026-05-03 11:00

lintian reports 16 warnings normal

Lintian reports 16 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2026-04-30 Last update: 2026-04-30 09:30

debian/patches: 18 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 19 debian patches available in version 5.45.4-7 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

18 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: 2026-04-30 20:01

testing migrations

excuses:
- Migration status for expect (5.45.4-4 to 5.45.4-7): Waiting for test results or another package, or too young (no action required now - check later)
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for apache2/2.4.66-8: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for apt/3.2.0: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for automake/1:1.18.1-4: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored), s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for cataclysm-dda/0.H-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for courier/1.5.1-3: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for cron/3.0pl1-209: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for cryptsetup/2:2.8.6-1: amd64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for debvm/0.5.2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for expect/5.45.4-7: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for firejail/0.9.80-1: amd64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for flightcrew/0.9.3+dfsg-4: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for freefem++/4.15+dfsg-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for friso/1.6.4+ds-3: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for glome/0.3.0-4: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for ipxe/2.0.0+dfsg-5: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for jruby/9.4.8.0+ds-3: amd64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for mp3report/1.0.3-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for ngircd/27-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for nss-pam-ldapd/0.9.13-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for pass-otp/1.2.0-10: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for python-better-exceptions/0.4.0-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for rancid/3.14-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for recon-ng/5.1.2-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for shadow/1:4.19.3-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for solfege/3.23.4-14: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for sssd/2.12.0-4: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for syslinux/3:6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4+dfsg1-3.2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Pass, ppc64el: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), riscv64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for taptempo/1.4.5-3.1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for tpm-tools/1.3.9.2-0.2: amd64: Pass, arm64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, i386: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, ppc64el: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, riscv64: No tests, superficial or marked flaky ♻, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for util-linux/2.42-5: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for wyrd/1.7.4-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for yafc/1.3.7-5: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Test triggered
- ∙ ∙ Too young, only 3 of 5 days old
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/e/expect.html
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on amd64
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on arm64
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on armhf
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on i386
- ∙ ∙ Reproducibility check waiting for results on ppc64el
- Not considered

news

[2026-04-30] Accepted expect 5.45.4-7 (source) into unstable (Sergei Golovan)
[2026-04-29] Accepted expect 5.45.4-6 (source) into unstable (Sergei Golovan)
[2026-04-26] Accepted expect 5.45.4-5 (source) into experimental (Sergei Golovan)
[2025-03-02] expect 5.45.4-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-02-24] Accepted expect 5.45.4-4 (source) into unstable (Sergei Golovan)
[2024-04-19] expect 5.45.4-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-03-13] Accepted expect 5.45.4-3 (source) into unstable (Sergei Golovan)
[2018-04-25] expect 5.45.4-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-04-19] Accepted expect 5.45.4-2 (source amd64) into unstable (Sergei Golovan)
[2018-02-10] expect 5.45.4-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-02-04] Accepted expect 5.45.4-1 (source amd64) into unstable (Sergei Golovan)
[2017-10-31] expect 5.45.3-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-10-26] Accepted expect 5.45.3-1 (source amd64) into unstable (Sergei Golovan)
[2017-08-06] Accepted expect 5.45-7+deb9u1 (source i386) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Sergei Golovan)
[2017-07-23] expect 5.45-8 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-07-15] Accepted expect 5.45-8 (source amd64) into unstable (Sergei Golovan)
[2015-10-29] expect 5.45-7 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2015-10-23] Accepted expect 5.45-7 (source amd64) into unstable (Sergei Golovan)
[2014-07-26] expect 5.45-6 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2014-07-15] Accepted expect 5.45-6 (source amd64) (Sergei Golovan)
[2013-11-14] expect 5.45-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2013-11-04] Accepted expect 5.45-5 (source amd64) (Sergei Golovan)
[2013-10-16] expect 5.45-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2013-10-06] Accepted expect 5.45-4 (source amd64) (Sergei Golovan)
[2013-05-17] expect 5.45-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2013-05-06] Accepted expect 5.45-3 (source i386) (Sergei Golovan)
[2011-11-15] expect 5.45-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2011-11-04] Accepted expect 5.45-2 (source i386) (Sergei Golovan)
[2011-08-28] expect 5.45-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2011-08-17] Accepted expect 5.45-1 (source i386) (Sergei Golovan)

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bugs [bug history graph]

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

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