chkrootkit - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: chkrootkit (main)
version: 0.58b-5
maintainer: Debian Security Tools (DMD)
uploaders: Marcos Fouces [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: 0.54-1
oldstable: 0.57-2
stable: 0.58b-5
testing: 0.58b-5
unstable: 0.58b-5

versioned links

0.54-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.57-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.58b-5: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

chkrootkit (7 bugs: 0, 5, 2, 0)

action needed

Marked for autoremoval on 04 October: #1096431 high

Version 0.58b-5 of chkrootkit is marked for autoremoval from testing on Sat 04 Oct 2025. It is affected by #1096431. The removal of chkrootkit will also cause the removal of (transitive) reverse dependencies: forensics-all, forensics-extra. You should try to prevent the removal by fixing these RC bugs.

Created: 2025-09-04 Last update: 2025-09-08 21:03

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
  ftp://ftp.chkrootkit.org/pub/seg/pac/

Created: 2025-08-20 Last update: 2025-09-08 16:33

debian/patches: 87 patches with invalid metadata high

Among the 88 debian patches available in version 0.58b-5 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

87 patches with invalid metadata that ought to be fixed.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2025-06-24 18:06

lintian reports 1 warning normal

Lintian reports 1 warning about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-05-09 Last update: 2025-05-09 08:32

Standards version of the package is outdated.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 4.7.0).

Created: 2025-02-21 Last update: 2025-06-24 17:27

news

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[2025-07-15] chkrootkit 0.58b-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-06-24] Accepted chkrootkit 0.58b-5 (source) into unstable (Richard Lewis) (signed by: Sven Geuer)
[2025-03-13] chkrootkit 0.58b-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-03-06] Accepted chkrootkit 0.58b-4 (source) into unstable (Richard Lewis) (signed by: Sven Geuer)
[2024-10-10] chkrootkit 0.58b-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-09-30] Accepted chkrootkit 0.58b-3 (source) into unstable (Richard Lewis) (signed by: Simon Josefsson)
[2024-09-26] Accepted chkrootkit 0.58b-2 (source) into unstable (Richard Lewis) (signed by: Simon Josefsson)
[2023-10-01] chkrootkit 0.58b-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-09-29] Accepted chkrootkit 0.58b-1 (source) into unstable (Richard Lewis) (signed by: Samuel Henrique)
[2023-04-12] chkrootkit 0.57-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-03-22] Accepted chkrootkit 0.57-2 (source) into unstable (Richard Lewis) (signed by: Marcos Fouces)
[2023-02-19] chkrootkit 0.57-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-02-09] Accepted chkrootkit 0.57-1 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces)
[2021-12-26] chkrootkit 0.55-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-12-23] Accepted chkrootkit 0.55-4 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces)
[2021-12-07] Accepted chkrootkit 0.55-3 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces)
[2021-11-24] Accepted chkrootkit 0.55-2 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces)
[2021-08-28] chkrootkit 0.55-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-08-22] Accepted chkrootkit 0.55-1 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces)
[2021-01-12] chkrootkit 0.54-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-07] Accepted chkrootkit 0.54-1 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces)
[2020-10-12] chkrootkit 0.53-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-10-06] Accepted chkrootkit 0.53-2 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces)
[2019-09-21] chkrootkit 0.53-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-09-15] Accepted chkrootkit 0.53-1 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces) (signed by: Giovani Augusto Ferreira)
[2019-03-11] chkrootkit 0.52-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-03-01] Accepted chkrootkit 0.52-3 (source) into unstable (Marcos Fouces) (signed by: Samuel Henrique)
[2019-02-09] Accepted chkrootkit 0.50-4+deb9u1 (source) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Moritz Schlarb) (signed by: Christoph Martin)
[2018-04-25] chkrootkit 0.52-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-04-19] Accepted chkrootkit 0.52-2 (source) into unstable (Raphaël Hertzog)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 8
RC: 1
I&N: 5
M&W: 2
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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version: 0.58b-5
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