fortune-mod - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: fortune-mod (main)
version: 1:1.99.1-9
maintainer: Andrea Colangelo (DMD)
arch: all 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: 1:1.99.1-7.1
oldstable: 1:1.99.1-7.3
stable: 1:1.99.1-9
testing: 1:1.99.1-9
unstable: 1:1.99.1-9

versioned links

1:1.99.1-7.1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1:1.99.1-7.3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1:1.99.1-9: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

fortune-mod (14 bugs: 0, 10, 4, 0)
fortunes (7 bugs: 0, 3, 4, 0)
fortunes-min

action needed

Marked for autoremoval on 05 October: #1096647 high

Version 1:1.99.1-9 of fortune-mod is marked for autoremoval from testing on Sun 05 Oct 2025. It is affected by #1096647. The removal of fortune-mod will also cause the removal of (transitive) reverse dependencies: blag-fortune, fortunate.app, fortune-zh, fortunes-bg, fortunes-bofh-excuses, fortunes-br, fortunes-cs, fortunes-de, fortunes-debian-hints, fortunes-eo, fortunes-ga, fortunes-it, fortunes-mario, fortunes-pl, fortunes-ru, gtypist, meta-gnustep, nlkt, stardict, wims, xcowsay, xscreensaver. You should try to prevent the removal by fixing these RC bugs.

Created: 2025-09-04 Last update: 2025-09-18 16:00

A new upstream version is available: 3.24.0 high

A new upstream version 3.24.0 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2024-10-30 Last update: 2025-09-18 14:30

Multiarch hinter reports 1 issue(s) normal

There are issues with the multiarch metadata for this package.

fortunes-min could be marked Multi-Arch: foreign

Created: 2016-09-14 Last update: 2025-09-18 15:34

2 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 2 bugs, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2025-09-18 15:32

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: 2025-09-15 Last update: 2025-09-18 13:33

5 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 2cf889e09c308b162ea75f08e78a1d3ae5b71de5
Author: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Sep 5 13:40:28 2025 +0200

    Prevent bool enum from being defined (Closes: #1096647)

commit 4f20e3ed4bfd7f63e36d6256690f7a38277e1ba5
Author: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Oct 30 07:51:13 2024 +0100

    Upload to unstable

commit ae27d6fcf0402965e7a8f6b8f02eddd12bcad883
Author: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Oct 30 07:50:07 2024 +0100

    d/copyright: DEP5

commit cadc3e0a2edc9302cacffbf783eb2da4dcd008d2
Author: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Oct 30 07:40:41 2024 +0100

    dh_missing -a --list-missing

commit bdc9c455921cc82574ce2c7221e1ba785e368701
Author: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 29 20:23:38 2024 +0100

    Fix architecture any build

Created: 2017-12-03 Last update: 2025-09-13 16:33

debian/patches: 32 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 33 debian patches available in version 1:1.99.1-9 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

32 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: 2024-10-31 16:01

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: 2025-02-27 13:25

news

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[2024-11-05] fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-9 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-10-30] Accepted fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-9 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2024-10-30] Accepted fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-8 (source) into unstable (Andreas Tille)
[2022-11-25] fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-7.3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-11-20] Accepted fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-7.3 (source) into unstable (Ansgar) (signed by: Ansgar Burchardt)
[2022-11-16] Accepted fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-7.2 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Jonathan Dowland) (signed by: Jon Dowland)
[2021-01-02] fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-7.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-12-27] Accepted fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-7.1 (source) into unstable (Holger Levsen)
[2013-08-25] fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-7 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2013-08-15] Accepted fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-7 (source amd64 all) (Andrea Colangelo) (signed by: Paul Tagliamonte)
[2013-05-05] fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2012-07-27] Accepted fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-6 (source all amd64 i386) (Adam Conrad)
[2012-07-22] Accepted fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-5 (source all amd64) (Nicolas Boulenguez) (signed by: Thijs Kinkhorst)
[2009-10-11] fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2009-10-01] Accepted fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-4 (source all amd64) (Joshua Kwan)
[2008-02-11] fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-3.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2008-01-27] Accepted fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-3.1 (source all i386) (Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt)
[2006-01-24] fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2006-01-10] Accepted fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-3 (source all i386) (Joshua Kwan)
[2005-02-21] Accepted fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-2 (i386 source all) (Joshua Kwan)
[2004-08-07] Accepted fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-1 (i386 source all) (Joshua Kwan)
[2004-06-28] Accepted fortune-mod 9708-37 (i386 source all) (Joshua Kwan)
[2004-01-08] Accepted fortune-mod 9708-36 (powerpc all source) (Pascal Hakim)
[2003-10-31] Accepted fortune-mod 9708-35 (powerpc all source) (Pascal Hakim)
[2003-09-08] Accepted fortune-mod 9708-34 (i386 source all) (Pascal Hakim)
[2003-08-22] Accepted fortune-mod 9708-33 (i386 source all) (Pascal Hakim)
[2003-07-22] Accepted fortune-mod 9708-32 (i386 source all) (Pascal Hakim)
[2003-07-21] Accepted fortune-mod 9708-31 (i386 source all) (Pascal Hakim)
[2003-07-09] Accepted fortune-mod 9708-30 (i386 source all) (Pascal Hakim)
[2003-06-16] Accepted fortune-mod 9708-29 (i386 source all) (Pascal Hakim)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 25
RC: 1
I&N: 13
M&W: 9
F&P: 2
patch: 2

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