hotspot - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: hotspot (main)
version: 1.6.0-0.1
maintainer: Yanhao Mo (DMD)
arch: any
std-ver: 4.7.3
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 1.3.0-2
oldstable: 1.3.0-2
testing: 1.6.0-0.1
unstable: 1.6.0-0.1

versioned links

1.3.0-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1.6.0-0.1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

hotspot (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)

action needed

Marked for autoremoval on 07 August: #1139547 high

Version 1.6.0-0.1 of hotspot is marked for autoremoval from testing on Fri 07 Aug 2026. It is affected by #1139547. You should try to prevent the removal by fixing these RC bugs.

Created: 2026-06-16 Last update: 2026-08-07 05:15

AppStream hints: 1 error and 2 warnings for hotspot high

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

hotspot: 1 error and 2 warnings

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

Created: 2018-11-22 Last update: 2026-03-04 10:01

1 security issue in trixie high

There is 1 open security issue in trixie.

1 important issue:

CVE-2023-28144: KDAB Hotspot 1.3.x and 1.4.x through 1.4.1, in a non-default configuration, allows privilege escalation because of race conditions involving symlinks and elevate_perf_privileges.sh chown calls.

Created: 2023-06-11 Last update: 2023-10-22 12:54

1 bug tagged patch in the BTS normal

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

Created: 2026-07-23 Last update: 2026-08-07 05:14

lintian reports 2 warnings normal

Lintian reports 2 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2026-03-04 Last update: 2026-03-04 09:01

Standards version of the package is outdated.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 4.7.3).

Created: 2026-03-31 Last update: 2026-03-31 15:01

news

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[2026-03-09] hotspot 1.6.0-0.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-03-03] Accepted hotspot 1.6.0-0.1 (source) into unstable (Boyuan Yang)
[2023-08-19] hotspot REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-03-03] hotspot 1.3.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-02-21] Accepted hotspot 1.3.0-2 (source) into unstable (Yanhao Mo)
[2021-01-09] Accepted hotspot 1.3.0-1 (source) into unstable (Yanhao Mo)
[2019-02-24] hotspot 1.1.0+git20190211-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-02-13] Accepted hotspot 1.1.0+git20190211-1 (source amd64) into unstable (Yanhao Mo)
[2019-01-12] hotspot 1.1.0+git20180816-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-01-07] Accepted hotspot 1.1.0+git20180816-2 (source amd64) into unstable (Yanhao Mo)
[2018-11-22] Accepted hotspot 1.1.0+git20180816-1 (source amd64) into unstable, unstable (Yanhao Mo) (signed by: Boyuan Yang)

bugs [bug history graph]

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

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