festival - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: festival (main)
version: 1:2.5.0-12
maintainer: Debian TTS Team (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Jaldhar H. Vyas [DMD] – Samuel Thibault [DMD] – Paul Gevers [DMD] – Jean-Philippe MENGUAL [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: 1:2.5.0-5
oldstable: 1:2.5.0-9
stable: 1:2.5.0-11
testing: 1:2.5.0-11
unstable: 1:2.5.0-12

versioned links

1:2.5.0-5: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1:2.5.0-9: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1:2.5.0-11: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1:2.5.0-12: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

festival (3 bugs: 0, 1, 2, 0)
festival-dev (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)
festival-doc

action needed

debian/patches: 5 patches with invalid metadata, 20 patches to forward upstream high

Among the 25 debian patches available in version 1:2.5.0-12 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

5 patches with invalid metadata that ought to be fixed.
20 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: 2026-01-16 09:32

Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal

The packages that festival depends on which need a new maintainer are:

sgml-base (#802381)
- Depends: sgml-base

Created: 2019-11-22 Last update: 2026-01-16 19:01

lintian reports 1 warning normal

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

Created: 2026-01-16 Last update: 2026-01-16 06:00

Standards version of the package is outdated.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: 2018-08-20 Last update: 2026-01-16 01:02

testing migrations

excuses:
- Migration status for festival (1:2.5.0-11 to 1:2.5.0-12): Waiting for test results or another package, or too young (no action required now - check later)
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Too young, only 1 of 5 days old
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/f/festival.html
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for festival/1:2.5.0-12: amd64: Pass, arm64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), s390x: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on amd64 - info ♻
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on arm64 - info ♻
- Not considered

news

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[2026-01-15] Accepted festival 1:2.5.0-12 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-01-16] festival 1:2.5.0-11 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-01-11] Accepted festival 1:2.5.0-11 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2023-07-19] festival 1:2.5.0-10 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-07-14] Accepted festival 1:2.5.0-10 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2022-10-29] festival 1:2.5.0-9 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-10-23] Accepted festival 1:2.5.0-9 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2021-11-06] festival 1:2.5.0-8 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-10-31] Accepted festival 1:2.5.0-8 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2021-09-05] festival 1:2.5.0-7 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-08-30] Accepted festival 1:2.5.0-7 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2021-08-29] Accepted festival 1:2.5.0-6 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2021-01-07] festival 1:2.5.0-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-07] festival 1:2.5.0-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-01] Accepted festival 1:2.5.0-5 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2019-07-10] festival 1:2.5.0-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-07-07] Accepted festival 1:2.5.0-4 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2019-03-05] festival 1:2.5.0-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-02-22] Accepted festival 1:2.5.0-3 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2018-05-04] festival 1:2.5.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-04-28] Accepted festival 1:2.5.0-2 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2018-01-27] festival 1:2.5.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-01-20] Accepted festival 1:2.5.0-1 (source) into unstable (Paul Gevers)
[2017-11-11] festival 1:2.4~release-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-11-05] Accepted festival 1:2.4~release-4 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2016-09-10] festival 1:2.4~release-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-09-04] Accepted festival 1:2.4~release-3 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2015-05-16] festival 1:2.4~release-2 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2015-05-07] Accepted festival 1:2.4~release-2 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2015-05-03] Accepted festival 1:2.4~release-1 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 5
RC: 0
I&N: 1
M&W: 4
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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