flex - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: flex (main)
version: 2.6.4-8.2
maintainer: Manoj Srivastava (DMD)
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.3.0
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 2.6.4-8
oldstable: 2.6.4-8.2
stable: 2.6.4-8.2
testing: 2.6.4-8.2
unstable: 2.6.4-8.2

versioned links

2.6.4-8: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.6.4-8.2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

flex (8 bugs: 0, 4, 4, 0)
flex-doc
libfl-dev
libfl2

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In debian/watch no matching files for watch source
  https://github.com/westes/flex/releases

Created: 2025-11-27 Last update: 2026-06-09 07:32

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error: RPC failed; HTTP 503 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 503 fatal: expected 'acknowledgments'

Created: 2022-10-02 Last update: 2026-06-06 20:01

1 bug tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 1 bug, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2026-06-02 Last update: 2026-06-09 12:30

2 open merge requests in Salsa normal

There are 2 open merge requests for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.

Created: 2025-08-19 Last update: 2025-08-19 06:28

lintian reports 9 warnings normal

Lintian reports 9 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2022-10-02 Last update: 2023-05-21 06:01

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.4 instead of 4.3.0).

Created: 2018-04-16 Last update: 2026-03-31 15:01

news

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[2023-06-02] flex 2.6.4-8.2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-05-20] Accepted flex 2.6.4-8.2 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
[2022-10-07] flex 2.6.4-8.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-10-07] flex 2.6.4-8.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-10-02] Accepted flex 2.6.4-8.1 (source) into unstable (Vagrant Cascadian)
[2020-06-10] flex 2.6.4-8 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-06-05] Accepted flex 2.6.4-8 (source) into unstable (Manoj Srivastava)
[2020-05-26] flex 2.6.4-7 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-05-21] Accepted flex 2.6.4-7 (source) into unstable (Manoj Srivastava)
[2018-08-19] flex 2.6.4-6.2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-08-13] Accepted flex 2.6.4-6.2 (source) into unstable (Niels Thykier)
[2018-05-01] flex 2.6.4-6.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-04-26] Accepted flex 2.6.4-6.1 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Laurent Bigonville)
[2018-02-25] Accepted flex 2.6.4-6 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Manoj Srivastava)
[2018-02-17] Accepted flex 2.6.4-5 (source amd64 all) into unstable, unstable (Manoj Srivastava)
[2018-02-16] Accepted flex 2.6.4-4 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Manoj Srivastava)
[2018-02-15] Accepted flex 2.6.4-3 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Manoj Srivastava)
[2018-02-14] Accepted flex 2.6.4-2 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Manoj Srivastava)
[2018-02-12] Accepted flex 2.6.4-1 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Manoj Srivastava)
[2017-01-15] flex 2.6.1-1.3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-01-04] Accepted flex 2.6.1-1.3 (source) into unstable (Christoph Berg)
[2017-01-04] Accepted flex 2.6.1-1.2 (source) into unstable (Christoph Berg)
[2016-12-15] flex 2.6.1-1.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-12-04] Accepted flex 2.6.1-1.1 (source) into unstable (Helmut Grohne)
[2016-09-04] Accepted flex 2.5.39-8+deb8u2 (all source) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Salvatore Bonaccorso)
[2016-08-28] Accepted flex 2.5.39-8+deb8u1 (source amd64 all) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Moritz Muehlenhoff) (signed by: Moritz Mühlenhoff)
[2016-08-11] flex 2.6.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-07-31] Accepted flex 2.6.1-1 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Manoj Srivastava)
[2016-03-06] flex 2.6.0-11 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-02-25] Accepted flex 2.6.0-11 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Manoj Srivastava)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 10
RC: 0
I&N: 6
M&W: 4
F&P: 0
patch: 1

links

homepage
lintian (0, 9)
buildd: logs, reproducibility, cross
popcon
browse source code
other distros
security tracker
l10n (-, 91)

ubuntu

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version: 2.6.4-8.2build2