chkrootkit - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: chkrootkit (main)
version: 0.58b-6
maintainer: Debian Security Tools (DMD)
uploaders: Marcos Fouces [DMD]
arch: any
std-ver: 4.7.2
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 0.54-1
oldstable: 0.57-2
stable: 0.58b-5
testing: 0.58b-5
unstable: 0.58b-6

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]
0.58b-6: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

chkrootkit (8 bugs: 0, 6, 2, 0)

action needed

Marked for autoremoval on 13 October: #1096431 high

Version 0.58b-5 of chkrootkit is marked for autoremoval from testing on Mon 13 Oct 2025. It is affected by #1096431. You should try to prevent the removal by fixing these RC bugs.

Created: 2025-09-04 Last update: 2025-09-29 02:02

debian/patches: 86 patches with invalid metadata, 1 patch to forward upstream high

Among the 88 debian patches available in version 0.58b-6 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

86 patches with invalid metadata that ought to be fixed.
1 patch 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: 2025-09-28 23:31

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: 2025-09-28 21:00

Fails to build during reproducibility testing normal

A package building reproducibly enables third parties to verify that the source matches the distributed binaries. It has been identified that this source package produced different results, failed to build or had other issues in a test environment. Please read about how to improve the situation!

Created: 2025-09-16 Last update: 2025-09-29 03:00

testing migrations

excuses:
- Migration status for chkrootkit (0.58b-5 to 0.58b-6): Waiting for test results or another package, or too young (no action required now - check later)
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Waiting for lintian test results on riscv64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Too young, only 1 of 2 days old
- Additional info:
- ∙ ∙ Updating chkrootkit will fix bugs in testing: #1096431
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/c/chkrootkit.html
- ∙ ∙ autopkgtest for chkrootkit/0.58b-6: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Waiting for reproducibility test results on amd64 - info ♻
- ∙ ∙ Waiting for reproducibility test results on arm64 - info ♻
- ∙ ∙ Required age reduced by 3 days because of autopkgtest
- Not considered

news

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[2025-09-28] Accepted chkrootkit 0.58b-6 (source) into unstable (Richard Lewis) (signed by: Sven Geuer)
[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)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 8
RC: 0
I&N: 6
M&W: 2
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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version: 0.58b-5
12 bugs (2 patches)