hw-detect - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: hw-detect (main)
version: 1.172
maintainer: Debian Install System Team (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Petter Reinholdtsen [DMD] – Colin Watson [DMD]
arch: all any
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 1.147
oldstable: 1.159
stable: 1.171
testing: 1.172
unstable: 1.172

versioned links

1.147: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1.159: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1.171: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1.172: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

archdetect
disk-detect (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)
driver-injection-disk-detect
ethdetect (2 bugs: 0, 2, 0, 0)
hw-detect (40 bugs: 0, 28, 12, 0)

action needed

lintian reports 14 errors high

Lintian reports 14 errors about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-08-03 Last update: 2025-10-12 08:02

Standards version of the package is outdated. high

The package is severely out of date with respect to the Debian Policy. The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.2 instead of ).

Created: 2014-09-09 Last update: 2025-10-12 07:31

11 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 11 bugs, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2025-10-27 19:00

version in VCS is newer than in repository, is it time to upload? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version 1.173, distribution UNRELEASED) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:

commit 3eae55097ddd1fcc7c5550fd72548a919408f43a
Merge: 6a7e248 26119a1
Author: Holger Wansing <holgerw@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Oct 22 22:47:59 2025 +0200

    Merge branch 'master' into 'master'
    
    Make package usrmerge-compliant
    
    See merge request installer-team/hw-detect!15

commit 26119a1ce7332b2ad3c65073481dc9834ae3c7c0
Author: Holger Wansing <holgerw@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Oct 22 22:47:59 2025 +0200

    Make package usrmerge-compliant

Created: 2025-10-22 Last update: 2025-10-22 22:00

1 open merge request in Salsa normal

There is 1 open merge request for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.

Created: 2025-08-19 Last update: 2025-10-11 22:32

news

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[2025-10-17] hw-detect 1.172 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-10-11] Accepted hw-detect 1.172 (source) into unstable (Philip Hands)
[2025-08-04] hw-detect 1.171 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-08-02] Accepted hw-detect 1.171 (source) into unstable (Cyril Brulebois)
[2025-07-26] hw-detect 1.170 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-07-20] Accepted hw-detect 1.170 (source) into unstable (Cyril Brulebois)
[2025-06-30] hw-detect 1.169 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-06-27] Accepted hw-detect 1.169 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
[2025-05-14] hw-detect 1.168 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-05-13] Accepted hw-detect 1.168 (source) into unstable (Cyril Brulebois)
[2025-04-12] hw-detect 1.167 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-04-06] Accepted hw-detect 1.167 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
[2025-04-06] hw-detect 1.166 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-04-01] Accepted hw-detect 1.166 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
[2025-02-12] hw-detect 1.165 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-02-06] Accepted hw-detect 1.165 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
[2024-12-05] hw-detect 1.164 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-11-29] Accepted hw-detect 1.164 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
[2024-11-08] hw-detect 1.163 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-11-02] Accepted hw-detect 1.163 (source) into unstable (Cyril Brulebois)
[2024-09-16] hw-detect 1.162 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-09-10] Accepted hw-detect 1.162 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
[2024-06-03] hw-detect 1.161 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-05-28] Accepted hw-detect 1.161 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
[2023-09-29] hw-detect 1.160 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-09-23] Accepted hw-detect 1.160 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
[2023-05-25] hw-detect 1.159 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-05-23] Accepted hw-detect 1.159 (source) into unstable (Holger Wansing)
[2023-05-15] hw-detect 1.158 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-05-11] Accepted hw-detect 1.158 (source) into unstable (Cyril Brulebois)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 45 46
RC: 0
I&N: 33 34
M&W: 12
F&P: 0
patch: 11

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