libxcomposite - Debian Package Tracker

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source: libxcomposite (main)
version: 1:0.4.6-1
maintainer: Debian X Strike Force (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Cyril Brulebois [DMD]
arch: any
std-ver: 4.6.1
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 1:0.4.5-1
oldstable: 1:0.4.5-1
stable: 1:0.4.6-1
testing: 1:0.4.6-1
unstable: 1:0.4.6-1

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1:0.4.5-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1:0.4.6-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

libxcomposite-dev
libxcomposite1

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In watchfile debian/watch, reading webpage
  http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/lib/ failed: 500 Can't connect to xorg.freedesktop.org:80 (Connection timed out)

Created: 2025-11-27 Last update: 2025-11-29 04:00

17 new commits since last upload, is it time to release? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have new commits in its VCS but has not yet updated debian/changelog. You should consider updating the Debian changelog and uploading this new version into the archive.

Here are the relevant commit logs:

commit dfe6b9aac9d955527b25d3feb4b771b832698a09
Author: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Nov 1 18:44:57 2024 +0100

    Bump changelog

commit 6e8cdd966c86dd22eaa3d2004f2208ec32641fde
Merge: abfb198 cecff84
Author: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Nov 1 18:42:03 2024 +0100

    Merge tag 'libXcomposite-0.4.6' into debian-unstable
    
    libXcomposite-0.4.6

commit abfb1984f17cc872a768e6693f266d67e78c7bb6
Author: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Nov 1 18:41:43 2024 +0100

    Stop tracking upstream git changelog

commit ec535c22a16523f5593844f8833f33c766b2c314
Author: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Nov 1 18:41:34 2024 +0100

    Enable upstream tarball signature verification.

commit cecff847395deb553b6331f31776f9cbfc809add
Author: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Date:   Sun Dec 4 14:04:06 2022 -0800

    libXcomposite 0.4.6
    
    Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>

commit 352885a4ff166cd065da1944649a4f12801dd4d2
Author: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 21 11:54:58 2022 -0800

    XCompositeCloseDisplay: Mark codes as unused
    
    Quiets clang warning:
    
    Xcomposite.c:91:50: warning: unused parameter 'codes' [-Wunused-parameter]
    XCompositeCloseDisplay (Display *dpy, XExtCodes *codes)
                                                     ^
    
    Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>

commit 544392051e5f566c4eb29fa2e40dbce748935728
Author: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 21 11:50:04 2022 -0800

    Handle implicit conversion warnings from clang
    
    Clears 13 -Wimplicit-int-conversion, 10 -Wshorten-64-to-32, and
    2 -Wsign-conversion warnings.
    
    Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>

commit 253561cfcc3b95d21046bf08467fa0f68be385da
Author: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 21 11:33:26 2022 -0800

    Wrap XComposite*CheckExtension() in do { ... } while(0)
    
    Makes macro expansion safer and eliminates -Wextra-semi-stmt warnings
    from clang every time it is called due to semicolon after bracket.
    
    Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>

commit 8a10ff647b795b778af58037a8cbc23a03289e9a
Author: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 21 11:29:44 2022 -0800

    Remove unnecessary casts from malloc() and free() calls
    
    Not needed in C89 and later
    
    Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>

commit c0c02375b5a319fffe98b8f80ac3c25a8ab3e362
Author: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 21 11:26:44 2022 -0800

    Mark two dpy parameters const as suggested by cppcheck
    
    Xcomposite.c:56:66: style: Parameter 'dpy' can be declared with const
      [constParameter]
    XCompositeExtRemoveDisplay (XCompositeExtInfo *extinfo, Display *dpy)
                                                                     ^
    Xcomposite.c:175:22: style: Parameter 'dpy' can be declared with const
      [constParameter]
            Display     *dpy)
                         ^
    
    Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>

commit 7af9ee057c85a6fea79b495afa9af89d1c1a10ed
Author: Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>
Date:   Tue Nov 15 21:50:44 2022 +0000

    Update standards version to 4.6.1, no changes needed.
    
    Changes-By: lintian-brush
    Fixes: lintian: out-of-date-standards-version
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/out-of-date-standards-version.html

commit 3acc60eec502ad0129ccdd0310d80dd657d878d0
Author: Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>
Date:   Tue Nov 15 21:50:44 2022 +0000

    Drop transition for old debug package migration.
    
    Changes-By: lintian-brush
    Fixes: lintian: debug-symbol-migration-possibly-complete
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debug-symbol-migration-possibly-complete.html

commit 970b99692ee3d6af8b796e1fdfcd2342f529952e
Author: Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>
Date:   Tue Nov 15 21:50:36 2022 +0000

    Bump debhelper from old 12 to 13.
    + debian/rules: Drop --fail-missing argument to dh_missing, which is now the default.
    
    Changes-By: lintian-brush
    Fixes: lintian: package-uses-old-debhelper-compat-version
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-uses-old-debhelper-compat-version.html

commit d2d1e38e5cd7027c4ebe73d6b420a516f3c99c9d
Author: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Date:   Sun Jul 17 11:21:47 2022 -0700

    gitlab CI: add a basic build test
    
    Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>

commit b134b362129f236f4f9221a393b57a9456fe3214
Author: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Date:   Sun Jul 17 11:19:45 2022 -0700

    Fix spelling/wording issues
    
    Found by using:
        codespell --builtin clear,rare,usage,informal,code,names
    
    Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>

commit f173c3b9c809842768c52eb16fb9a83f0551e5f4
Author: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Date:   Sun Jul 17 11:19:10 2022 -0700

    Build xz tarballs instead of bzip2
    
    Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>

commit 67643ec8b5606651fdea9a7164296d90ef6e5481
Author: Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Apr 14 20:24:12 2020 +0300

    upload to sid

Created: 2020-04-14 Last update: 2025-11-26 18:18

lintian reports 5 warnings normal

Lintian reports 5 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2022-01-01 Last update: 2025-09-10 15:03

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.2 instead of 4.6.1).

Created: 2020-11-17 Last update: 2025-02-27 13:25

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[2024-11-06] libxcomposite 1:0.4.6-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-11-01] Accepted libxcomposite 1:0.4.6-1 (source) into unstable (Julien Cristau)
[2020-04-20] libxcomposite 1:0.4.5-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-04-14] Accepted libxcomposite 1:0.4.5-1 (source) into unstable (Timo Aaltonen)
[2017-01-30] libxcomposite 1:0.4.4-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-01-20] Accepted libxcomposite 1:0.4.4-2 (source) into unstable (Timo Aaltonen)
[2013-06-27] libxcomposite 1:0.4.4-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2013-06-16] Accepted libxcomposite 1:0.4.4-1 (source amd64) (Julien Cristau)
[2011-06-23] libxcomposite 1:0.4.3-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2011-06-11] Accepted libxcomposite 1:0.4.3-2 (source amd64) (Julien Cristau)
[2011-02-06] libxcomposite 1:0.4.3-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2010-11-06] Accepted libxcomposite 1:0.4.3-1 (source amd64) (Cyril Brulebois)
[2010-07-22] libxcomposite 1:0.4.2-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2010-07-11] Accepted libxcomposite 1:0.4.2-1 (source amd64) (Julien Cristau)
[2010-07-06] libxcomposite 1:0.4.1-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2010-06-25] Accepted libxcomposite 1:0.4.1-2 (source amd64) (Julien Cristau)
[2009-12-07] libxcomposite 1:0.4.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2009-11-25] Accepted libxcomposite 1:0.4.1-1 (source i386) (Julien Cristau)
[2009-08-06] libxcomposite 1:0.4.0-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2009-07-26] Accepted libxcomposite 1:0.4.0-4 (source i386) (Brice Goglin)
[2008-06-10] libxcomposite 1:0.4.0-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2008-05-30] Accepted libxcomposite 1:0.4.0-3 (source i386) (Julien Cristau)
[2008-05-29] libxcomposite 1:0.4.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2008-05-18] Accepted libxcomposite 1:0.4.0-2 (source i386) (Julien Cristau)
[2007-12-13] libxcomposite 1:0.4.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2007-12-02] Accepted libxcomposite 1:0.4.0-1 (source i386) (Julien Cristau)
[2007-06-01] libxcomposite 1:0.3.2-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2007-05-11] Accepted libxcomposite 1:0.3.2-1 (source i386) (Julien Cristau)
[2007-04-11] Accepted libxcomposite 1:0.3.1-2 (source i386) (Julien Cristau)
[2007-02-13] Accepted libxcomposite 1:0.3.1-1 (source i386) (Julien Cristau)

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