ocaml - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: ocaml (main)
version: 5.4.1-1
maintainer: Debian OCaml Maintainers (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Ralf Treinen [DMD] – Stéphane Glondu [DMD] – Mehdi Dogguy [DMD] – Ximin Luo [DMD]
arch: all 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: 4.11.1-4
oldstable: 4.13.1-4
stable: 5.3.0-3
testing: 5.4.1-1
unstable: 5.4.1-1
exp: 5.5.1-1~exp2

versioned links

4.11.1-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.13.1-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.3.0-3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.4.0-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.4.1-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.5.1-1~exp1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.5.1-1~exp2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

libcompiler-libs-ocaml-dev
libstdlib-ocaml
libstdlib-ocaml-dev
ocaml (5 bugs: 0, 4, 1, 0)
ocaml-base
ocaml-interp
ocaml-man
ocaml-source

action needed

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
  https://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-(?:[-_]?[Vv]?(\d[\-+\.:\~\da-zA-Z]*))/

Created: 2026-10-06 Last update: 2026-10-10 22:50

The VCS repository is not up to date, push the missing commits. high

vcswatch reports that the current version of the package is not in its VCS.
Either you need to push your commits and/or your tags, or the information about the package's VCS are out of date. A common cause of the latter issue when using the Git VCS is not specifying the correct branch when the packaging is not in the default one (remote HEAD branch), which is usually "master" but can be modified in salsa.debian.org in the project's general settings with the "Default Branch" field). Alternatively the Vcs-Git field in debian/control can contain a "-b <branch-name>" suffix to indicate what branch is used for the Debian packaging.

Created: 2026-06-29 Last update: 2026-10-09 10:49

2 security issues in bullseye high

There are 2 open security issues in bullseye.

2 important issues:

CVE-2026-28364: In OCaml before 4.14.3 and 5.x before 5.4.1, a buffer over-read in Marshal deserialization (runtime/intern.c) enables remote code execution through a multi-phase attack chain. The vulnerability stems from missing bounds validation in the readblock() function, which performs unbounded memcpy() operations using attacker-controlled lengths from crafted Marshal data.
CVE-2026-34353: In OCaml through 4.14.3, Bigarray.reshape allows an integer overflow, and resultant reading of arbitrary memory, when untrusted data is processed.

Created: 2026-02-27 Last update: 2026-08-02 20:32

1 bug tagged help in the BTS normal

The BTS contains 1 bug tagged help, please consider helping the maintainer in dealing with it.

Created: 2019-03-21 Last update: 2026-10-10 22:48

1 bug tagged patch in the BTS normal

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

Created: 2026-09-02 Last update: 2026-10-10 22:48

lintian reports 3 warnings normal

Lintian reports 3 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2026-06-17 Last update: 2026-06-17 06:30

Multiarch hinter reports 2 issue(s) low

There are issues with the multiarch metadata for this package.

ocaml-man could be marked Multi-Arch: foreign
ocaml-source could be marked Multi-Arch: foreign

Created: 2016-09-14 Last update: 2026-10-10 17:30

1 low-priority security issue in trixie low

There is 1 open security issue in trixie.

1 issue left for the package maintainer to handle:

CVE-2026-28364: (needs triaging) In OCaml before 4.14.3 and 5.x before 5.4.1, a buffer over-read in Marshal deserialization (runtime/intern.c) enables remote code execution through a multi-phase attack chain. The vulnerability stems from missing bounds validation in the readblock() function, which performs unbounded memcpy() operations using attacker-controlled lengths from crafted Marshal data.

You can find information about how to handle this issue in the security team's documentation.

Created: 2026-02-27 Last update: 2026-09-01 22:00

debian/patches: 7 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 7 debian patches available in version 5.4.1-1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

7 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: 2026-06-17 06:02

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: 2024-04-07 Last update: 2026-06-16 22:32

news

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[2026-10-09] Accepted ocaml 5.5.1-1~exp2 (source) into experimental (Stéphane Glondu)
[2026-09-07] Accepted ocaml 5.5.1-1~exp1 (source) into experimental (Stéphane Glondu)
[2026-07-02] Accepted ocaml 5.5.0-1~exp2 (source) into experimental (Stéphane Glondu)
[2026-06-29] Accepted ocaml 5.5.0-1~exp1 (source) into experimental (Stéphane Glondu)
[2026-06-28] ocaml 5.4.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-06-16] Accepted ocaml 5.4.1-1 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2026-03-02] Accepted ocaml 5.4.1-1~exp1 (source) into experimental (Stéphane Glondu)
[2026-02-20] ocaml 5.4.0-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-02-11] Accepted ocaml 5.4.0-3 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2026-01-15] ocaml 5.4.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-01-09] Accepted ocaml 5.4.0-2 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2026-01-03] ocaml 5.4.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-12-26] Accepted ocaml 5.4.0-1 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2025-12-15] Accepted ocaml 5.4.0-1~exp3 (source) into experimental (Stéphane Glondu)
[2025-12-14] Accepted ocaml 5.4.0-1~exp2 (source) into experimental (Stéphane Glondu)
[2025-10-12] Accepted ocaml 5.4.0-1~exp1 (source) into experimental (Stéphane Glondu)
[2025-06-20] ocaml 5.3.0-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-06-12] Accepted ocaml 5.3.0-3 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2025-02-08] ocaml 5.3.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-01-27] Accepted ocaml 5.3.0-2 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2025-01-26] Accepted ocaml 5.3.0-1 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2025-01-15] Accepted ocaml 5.3.0-1~exp2 (source) into experimental (Stéphane Glondu)
[2025-01-14] Accepted ocaml 5.3.0-1~exp1 (source) into experimental (Stéphane Glondu)
[2024-09-04] ocaml 5.2.0-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-08-29] Accepted ocaml 5.2.0-3 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2024-08-19] ocaml 5.2.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-08-09] Accepted ocaml 5.2.0-2 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2024-08-07] Accepted ocaml 5.2.0-1 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2024-07-02] Accepted ocaml 5.2.0-1~exp4 (source) into experimental (Stéphane Glondu)
[2024-07-01] Accepted ocaml 5.2.0-1~exp3 (source) into experimental (Stéphane Glondu)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 10
RC: 0
I&N: 5
M&W: 5
F&P: 0
patch: 1
help: 1
NC: 1

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ubuntu

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version: 5.4.1-1ubuntu1
3 bugs
patches for 5.4.1-1ubuntu1