libutempter - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: libutempter (main)
version: 1.2.1-4
maintainer: Christian Göttsche (DMD)
arch: any
std-ver: 4.7.0
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 1.2.1-2
oldstable: 1.2.1-3
stable: 1.2.1-4
testing: 1.2.1-4
unstable: 1.2.1-4

versioned links

1.2.1-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1.2.1-3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1.2.1-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

libutempter-dev
libutempter0 (2 bugs: 0, 2, 0, 0)

action needed

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 1.2.1-4.1, distribution unstable) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:

commit fb87d183814493864cd598a81579d96d10157be3
Author: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 19 12:20:46 2026 +0100

    debian/libutempter0.postrm: drop unnecessary cleanup

commit 1f3f47ccc03f8539b218b964ad4379e4d11d47b0
Merge: 81bda8c 20d0431
Author: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 19 11:18:59 2026 +0000

    Merge branch 'xterm-1125682' into 'master'
    
    Restore /run/utmp
    
    See merge request cgzones/libutempter!2

commit 20d043190778c2a02aeb0a9ff7b798acb05cceaa
Author: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
Date:   Sun Feb 15 17:35:23 2026 -0500

    use dh_installtmpfile
    
    suggested in https://salsa.debian.org/cgzones/libutempter/-/merge_requests/2
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

commit a02c5d34a93bb9599462221fee0cda1f226d7a35
Author: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
Date:   Sun Feb 15 17:08:41 2026 -0500

    update copyright, per mentors/lintian
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

commit cb99a9843e016fcb83db344de09c69559937202d
Author: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
Date:   Sun Feb 8 19:50:33 2026 -0500

    try alternate workaround...
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

commit 68e903c4b322f1a54c501aa19de8a5583066e247
Author: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
Date:   Sun Feb 8 19:28:26 2026 -0500

    workaround for expired signature...
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

commit 1388f41216213cccfa7fda12792841737d972598
Author: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
Date:   Sun Feb 8 18:41:20 2026 -0500

    ensure that /etc/tmpfiles.d exists even if systemd is not configured
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

commit dc8a8a3df73ad35b659a9be779cb88cfd3518849
Author: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
Date:   Sun Feb 8 18:37:02 2026 -0500

    lintian: change version number to NMU convention
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

commit 12ed01e3dde5927c9507b45e38104d44b9156f6d
Author: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
Date:   Sun Feb 8 18:36:21 2026 -0500

    lintian: "optional" is redundant priority
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

commit a35fb4b3494288b937d28ccc9eded78a3a812895
Author: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
Date:   Sun Feb 8 17:36:35 2026 -0500

    lintian: mention NMU
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

commit 6dc0aefcddb43c777974d07df99d9395b46ecfab
Author: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
Date:   Sun Feb 8 17:30:44 2026 -0500

    lintian: update standards version
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

commit d954032156ea75e271216e5cfd2009cc54015ae5
Author: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
Date:   Sun Feb 8 17:27:36 2026 -0500

    lintian: use https urls
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

commit dc3e25030460663df086ac6f582ee03cc1511cb1
Author: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
Date:   Sun Feb 8 16:54:30 2026 -0500

    ensure that /run/utmp exists after installing the package
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

commit a02a9e75c8065537fe0d3e736ff07aba7e41411f
Author: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
Date:   Sun Feb 8 16:08:42 2026 -0500

    add post-scripts for managing /etc/tempfiles.d/libutempter.conf
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

commit 80c048315b9f55fee1adc1672376076bae661d4a
Author: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
Date:   Sun Feb 8 15:15:32 2026 -0500

    fix lintian warnings about FSF address
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

commit 5cedf531975e08959d44ff2d9175f057b4d49831
Author: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
Date:   Sun Feb 8 14:53:27 2026 -0500

    fixes for stricter compiler warnings
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>

commit 81bda8cf1226ee3b8d5803b9abe3773542c72f6d
Author: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
Date:   Fri Nov 15 18:22:29 2024 +0100

    d/libutempter0.lintian-overrides: use arch-agnostic override
    
    Spotted by Christian Hofstaedtler

Created: 2024-11-12 Last update: 2026-02-19 13:01

lintian reports 9 warnings normal

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

Created: 2024-11-13 Last update: 2025-12-21 11:00

debian/patches: 2 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 5 debian patches available in version 1.2.1-4 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

2 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: 2024-11-13 11:31

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.3 instead of 4.7.0).

Created: 2025-02-21 Last update: 2025-12-23 20:00

news

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[2024-11-18] libutempter 1.2.1-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-11-12] Accepted libutempter 1.2.1-4 (source) into unstable (Christian Göttsche) (signed by: Christian Hofstaedtler)
[2023-03-10] libutempter 1.2.1-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-02-27] Accepted libutempter 1.2.1-3 (source) into unstable (Christian Göttsche) (signed by: bage@debian.org)
[2020-12-09] libutempter 1.2.1-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-12-06] Accepted libutempter 1.2.1-2 (source) into unstable (Christian Göttsche) (signed by: Bart Martens)
[2020-12-05] libutempter 1.2.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-12-02] Accepted libutempter 1.2.1-1 (source) into unstable (Christian Göttsche) (signed by: Adam Borowski)
[2020-04-19] libutempter 1.1.6-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-04-17] libutempter 1.1.6-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-04-16] Accepted libutempter 1.1.6-6 (source) into unstable (Christian Göttsche) (signed by: Adam Borowski)
[2020-04-15] Accepted libutempter 1.1.6-5 (source) into unstable (Christian Göttsche) (signed by: Adam Borowski)
[2019-10-05] libutempter 1.1.6-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-10-02] Accepted libutempter 1.1.6-4 (source) into unstable (Christian Göttsche) (signed by: Adam Borowski)
[2016-02-24] libutempter 1.1.6-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-02-18] Accepted libutempter 1.1.6-3 (source) into unstable (Maximiliano Curia)
[2016-02-09] Accepted libutempter 1.1.6-2 (source) into unstable (Maximiliano Curia)
[2015-06-21] libutempter 1.1.6-1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2015-06-13] Accepted libutempter 1.1.6-1 (source) into unstable (Felix Geyer)
[2011-03-04] libutempter 1.1.5-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2011-02-21] Accepted libutempter 1.1.5-4 (source amd64) (Fathi Boudra)
[2010-05-03] libutempter 1.1.5-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2010-04-22] Accepted libutempter 1.1.5-3 (source amd64) (Fathi Boudra)
[2009-09-09] libutempter 1.1.5-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2009-08-29] Accepted libutempter 1.1.5-2 (source amd64) (Fathi Boudra)
[2009-08-28] Accepted libutempter 1.1.5-1 (source amd64) (Fathi Boudra)

bugs [bug history graph]

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

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