brltty - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: brltty (main)
version: 6.8-4
maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Samuel Thibault [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.6.2
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 6.3+dfsg-1+deb11u1
oldstable: 6.5-7+deb12u1
old-bpo: 6.7-3.1+deb13u2~bpo12+1
stable: 6.7-3.1+deb13u2
stable-bpo: 6.8-4~bpo13+1
testing: 6.8-4
unstable: 6.8-4

versioned links

6.3+dfsg-1+deb11u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.5-7+deb12u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.7-3.1+deb13u2~bpo12+1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.7-3.1+deb13u2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.8-4~bpo13+1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.8-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

brltty (11 bugs: 0, 8, 3, 0)
brltty-espeak
brltty-flite
brltty-speechd
brltty-udeb (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)
brltty-x11 (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
cl-brlapi
libbrlapi-dev
libbrlapi-java
libbrlapi-jni
libbrlapi0.8
python3-brlapi
xbrlapi (1 bugs: 0, 1, 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 6.8-5, 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 b027b9cc54bb74eb7414f095227d216e9e3b5691
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Sat Dec 27 16:27:44 2025 +0100

    Fix cross-build on hurd-any

commit 3bd905e4cded3ba81f3c3063c524fd795984e749
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Fri Dec 26 01:07:38 2025 +0100

    Mark patch as forwarded

commit dbf50265287d076e33a324ef9d6409e143b850dd
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Fri Dec 26 01:03:37 2025 +0100

    Actually apply patch

commit 1f87d4b17e3d3f92fce48aac1aeeace3fd31d168
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Fri Dec 26 00:31:09 2025 +0100

    really enable cross-build test

commit 84501dbd98b1ef0e076fdfa3e197ea2316ea599c
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Fri Dec 26 00:21:59 2025 +0100

    Fix FTCBFS (Closes: Bug#1123902)

commit 0a0546b9a4977a8040411773638a6afd23fba7ca
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Fri Dec 26 00:19:34 2025 +0100

    patches/cross: Upstream fixes for cross-build.
    
    * Do not use AC_CHECK_FILE for checking headers.
    * Define missing rules for EuroBraille driver.

commit c63500999be9da63307cb42758a09282741201a3
Author: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
Date:   Fri Dec 26 00:06:34 2025 +0100

    rules: Tell Python about the host architecture
    
    When building the Python extension, the host architecture has to be
    communicated separately via _PYTHON_SYSCONFIGDATA_NAME.

commit ad2059b588735e3e0526a389408b032c311b7273
Author: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
Date:   Fri Dec 26 00:03:34 2025 +0100

    rules: Pass --build and --host to configure
    
    Consider using dh_auto_configure.

commit f641577da40d8a1418cc7aaaf16c6fc9bc3f1f0a
Author: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
Date:   Fri Dec 26 00:01:08 2025 +0100

    control: Annotate tool dependencies :native
    
    The Java compiler is being run. Thus a native development kit is needed.

commit 54b485300af39a38ba3011219838fe4f4678c826
Author: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
Date:   Fri Dec 26 00:02:11 2025 +0100

    control: Add missing libpython3-all-dev build dependency
    
    cross building requires libpython3-all-dev for the host architecture. This
    is not implied in python3-all-dev:any.

commit b7a9ee677398322035b18e8b87c0a8aee5af9964
Author: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
Date:   Thu Dec 25 23:59:46 2025 +0100

    control: Annotate tool dependencies :native.
    
    cython3 was not satisfiable for cross-build. Whilst it may have
    architecture-dependent behavior, brltty's use is ok. Thus it needs to be
    annotated :native.

Created: 2025-12-26 Last update: 2025-12-27 16:31

lintian reports 122 warnings normal

Lintian reports 122 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-09-11 Last update: 2025-09-11 09:02

AppStream hints: 2 warnings for brltty normal

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

brltty: 2 warnings

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

Created: 2025-05-02 Last update: 2025-05-02 22:01

debian/patches: 5 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 7 debian patches available in version 6.8-4 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

5 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: 2025-11-18 08:31

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 4.6.2).

Created: 2022-05-11 Last update: 2025-12-23 20:00

testing migrations

This package will soon be part of the auto-icu transition. You might want to ensure that your package is ready for it. You can probably find supplementary information in the debian-release archives or in the corresponding release.debian.org bug.

news

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[2025-11-23] Accepted brltty 6.8-4~bpo13+1 (source) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-11-23] brltty 6.8-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-11-17] Accepted brltty 6.8-4 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-11-09] Accepted brltty 6.7-3.1+deb13u2~bpo12+1 (source) into oldstable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-10-19] Accepted brltty 6.7-3.1+deb13u2 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Samuel Thibault)
[2025-09-16] Accepted brltty 6.8-3~bpo13+1 (source) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-09-16] brltty 6.8-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-10] Accepted brltty 6.8-3 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-08-31] Accepted brltty 6.8-2~bpo13+1 (source amd64 all) into stable-backports (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Samuel Thibault)
[2025-08-30] brltty 6.8-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-08-25] Accepted brltty 6.8-2 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-07-12] Accepted brltty 6.8-1 (source amd64 all) into experimental (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-05-13] Accepted brltty 6.7-3.1~bpo12+1 (source) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-05-13] brltty 6.7-3.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-05-02] Accepted brltty 6.7-3.1 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-04-27] Accepted brltty 6.7-2 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2024-10-31] Accepted brltty 6.7-1~bpo12+1 (source amd64 all) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2024-10-23] brltty 6.7-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-10-18] Accepted brltty 6.7-1 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2024-05-09] Accepted brltty 6.6-5~bpo12+1 (source) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2024-05-03] brltty 6.6-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-03-25] Accepted brltty 6.6-5 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2024-02-17] Accepted brltty 6.6-4+exp1 (source amd64 all) into experimental (Samuel Thibault)
[2023-11-27] Accepted brltty 6.5-7+deb12u1~bpo11+1 (source) into bullseye-backports (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Samuel Thibault)
[2023-09-16] Accepted brltty 6.5-7+deb12u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Samuel Thibault)
[2023-09-07] Accepted brltty 6.6-4~bpo12+1 (source) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2023-09-07] brltty 6.6-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-09-04] Accepted brltty 6.6-4 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2023-09-04] Accepted brltty 6.6-3 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2023-08-21] brltty 6.6-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 13 14
RC: 0
I&N: 9 10
M&W: 3
F&P: 1
patch: 0

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ubuntu

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version: 6.7-1ubuntu5
36 bugs
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