gpsd - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: gpsd (main)
version: 3.26.1-1
maintainer: Boian Bonev (DMD) (DM)
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: 3.22-4
oldstable: 3.22-4.1
stable: 3.25-5
testing: 3.25-5
unstable: 3.26.1-1

versioned links

3.22-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
3.22-4.1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
3.25-5: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
3.26.1-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

gpsd (15 bugs: 0, 11, 4, 0)
gpsd-clients (4 bugs: 0, 3, 1, 0)
gpsd-tools (2 bugs: 0, 2, 0, 0)
libgps-dev
libgps31
libqgpsmm-dev
libqgpsmm31
python3-gps (2 bugs: 0, 2, 0, 0)

action needed

debian/patches: 1 patch with invalid metadata, 5 patches to forward upstream high

Among the 6 debian patches available in version 3.26.1-1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

1 patch with invalid metadata that ought to be fixed.
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: 2025-11-17 00:00

AppStream hints: 2 errors and 2 warnings high

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

gpsd-clients: 2 errors and 2 warnings

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

Created: 2020-06-01 Last update: 2022-01-21 06:05

The package has not entered testing even though the delay is over normal

The package has not entered testing even though the 2-day delay is over. Check why.

Created: 2025-11-18 Last update: 2025-11-18 20:30

Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal

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

docbook-xml (#802368)
- Build-Depends: docbook-xml
docbook-xsl (#802370)
- Build-Depends: docbook-xsl

Created: 2023-09-01 Last update: 2025-11-18 19:30

Does not build reproducibly during 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: 2023-07-01 Last update: 2025-11-18 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: 2025-11-18 Last update: 2025-11-18 05:00

29 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 c5c67966ba181aef21ae19b5cb8ee5a07e2602ba
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 5 01:26:15 2025 +0000

    Increase uhd build timeout

commit 34f63d35268ecf0c520faa99237a213ce3891e6b
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 21:49:02 2025 +0000

    foxtrotgps is no longer in Debian, remove it from here as well

commit 9eb1667ebed0f881d01dc665ca8c1f08b96f662a
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 21:29:29 2025 +0000

    Fix the timestamp

commit 07ae517b4008bfb973c42fe504d77deac56715c7
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 21:23:11 2025 +0000

    Remove remnants from t64 transition

commit df8e4f0f349e8c0b9c9a031ea7612073973a867c
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 21:19:06 2025 +0000

    Updating debian/control from debian/control.in

commit dde31a30327c7cfdf9e37f99ff136cabc812ed87
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 20:59:28 2025 +0000

    Update standard to 4.7.2, no changes

commit 53132a196c3f10d6baa7cd36fba87f281979b441
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 20:20:23 2025 +0000

    Prepare 3.26.1-1

commit 562ddf95070530910b91157e666cbfaa42762255
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 20:19:43 2025 +0000

    Update to v5

commit 490e5ff3ba4c0879aa88d3462060b990397ae01c
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 19:23:44 2025 +0000

    Update

commit 9b4a60430389082892eb77eb22eba5849690a61c
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 19:21:45 2025 +0000

    Update

commit b602002492fb5a7c8ad47f82b879760b6eb8bb60
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 19:07:27 2025 +0000

    Add BD: ruby-rouge for asciidoctor

commit 1f8f12f2fe219ca7f3d7377167dc92c2694706e2
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 18:52:02 2025 +0000

    Updating debian/control from debian/control.in

commit 74f349d535263c85bcfff433cdea9045d7b466c3
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 18:34:48 2025 +0000

    Complete the t64 transition

commit a50e0e9bc510d840b2c2978d9029e038268d582b
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 18:33:31 2025 +0000

    Updating debian/control from debian/control.in

commit 16d220a5a8a071ad4c753759117c511490fcfdee
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 17:32:41 2025 +0000

    Use the minimal upstream key

commit f5968fb28d507c1527570317b34261ae4254172f
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 17:32:09 2025 +0000

    Install gpslogntp and man page

commit 106a6822c149c7b177973dca1e0f75a68c7376fa
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 17:31:44 2025 +0000

    Remove Rules-Requires-Root: no

commit c90140d7431b02672533a4cb2bb68cff2ed23963
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 16:20:24 2025 +0000

    Refresh patches and remove the bits applied upstream

commit d329ad687ae912d07c87d5194142f4437e7cb9a3
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 15:57:42 2025 +0000

    Remove patch included upstream

commit fa408aaa9a25d085ca397199b3cad61f32256555
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 15:54:40 2025 +0000

    Updating debian/control from debian/control.in

commit 3d9a7a5a67916e8e018846cc50dfb22f98bad26d
Merge: 6d5d901b4 442cee392
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 15:51:19 2025 +0000

    Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/3.26.1'
    
    Update to upstream version '3.26.1'
    with Debian dir ec09a8d885e94074012c8398f0e3beb1dce77078

commit 442cee392279a0d898ad7b1e98293b5601c74c4b
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 15:50:52 2025 +0000

    New upstream version 3.26.1

commit 6d5d901b448cb0b3de1d7f2e04857918ac7764ab
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 4 15:47:51 2025 +0000

    Update upstream signing key

commit 6221ac651322b5c21b5a463aa5afdf2774c983f8
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 21 02:40:44 2025 +0000

    Add patch from Alexander Inyukhin <shurick@sectorb.msk.ru>

commit c3242cdca029e103b594746b35ce6b36c0094fd9
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 21 02:40:30 2025 +0000

    Merge fix from наб, remove dh-buildinfo

commit 3f91b001694a8b33b41d20d4be5bc58aa400c3d4
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 21 02:39:46 2025 +0000

    Add patch from Alexander Inyukhin <shurick@sectorb.msk.ru>

commit 46965bc6e0e9f7b6d5edada687b2eb365e098fe0
Merge: 48258f4fa 86abcd4fc
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 20 01:21:48 2025 +0000

    Merge branch 'master' into 'master'
    
    d/control: Build-Depends: remove dh-buildinfo (see #1068809)
    
    See merge request debian-gps-team/pkg-gpsd!16

commit 86abcd4fc802752b1009cfcc8a796671c6278036
Author: наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Date:   Wed Nov 27 16:42:14 2024 +0100

    d/control: Build-Depends: remove dh-buildinfo (see #1068809)

commit e368c1ba8ddd2e2b11facd7ee40063226a0297bf
Author: Boian Bonev <bbonev@ipacct.com>
Date:   Sun May 14 02:57:30 2023 +0000

    New upstream version 3.25

Created: 2022-04-10 Last update: 2025-11-16 16:02

testing migrations

This package is part of the ongoing testing transition known as auto-gpsd. Please avoid uploads unrelated to this transition, they would likely delay it and require supplementary work from the release managers. On the other hand, if your package has problems preventing it to migrate to testing, please fix them as soon as possible. You can probably find supplementary information in the debian-release archives or in the corresponding release.debian.org bug.
excuses:
- Migration status for gpsd (3.25-5 to 3.26.1-1): Will attempt migration (Any information below is purely informational)
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/g/gpsd.html
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for gpsd/3.26.1-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on amd64 - info ♻
- ∙ ∙ Reproducible on arm64 - info ♻
- ∙ ∙ Required age reduced by 3 days because of autopkgtest
- ∙ ∙ 3 days old (needed 2 days)

news

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[2025-11-16] Accepted gpsd 3.26.1-1 (source amd64) into unstable (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Alexandre Detiste)
[2025-01-22] gpsd 3.25-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-01-19] Accepted gpsd 3.25-5 (source) into unstable (Boian Bonev)
[2024-05-26] gpsd 3.25-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-05-23] Accepted gpsd 3.25-4 (source) into unstable (Boian Bonev)
[2024-05-03] gpsd 3.25-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-02-29] Accepted gpsd 3.25-3 (source) into unstable (Boian Bonev)
[2024-02-11] Accepted gpsd 3.25-3~exp1 (source) into experimental (Boian Bonev)
[2024-02-06] Accepted gpsd 3.25-2.1~exp1 (source) into experimental (Steve Langasek)
[2023-09-14] gpsd 3.25-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-09-11] Accepted gpsd 3.25-2 (source) into unstable (Boian Bonev)
[2023-07-01] gpsd 3.25-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-06-28] Accepted gpsd 3.25-1 (source) into unstable (Boian Bonev)
[2023-06-26] Accepted gpsd 3.25-1~exp2 (source) into experimental (Boian Bonev) (signed by: bage@debian.org)
[2023-06-13] Accepted gpsd 3.25-1~exp1 (source amd64) into experimental (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: bage@debian.org)
[2022-09-14] gpsd 3.22-4.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-09-11] Accepted gpsd 3.22-4.1 (source) into unstable (Paul Gevers)
[2021-10-28] Accepted gpsd 3.16-4+deb9u1 (source) into oldoldstable (Adrian Bunk)
[2021-08-16] Accepted gpsd 3.22-4~bpo10+1 (source amd64) into buster-backports->backports-policy, buster-backports (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Bernd Zeimetz)
[2021-08-04] gpsd 3.22-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-08-01] Accepted gpsd 3.22-4 (source) into unstable (Bernd Zeimetz)
[2021-04-30] gpsd 3.22-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-04-25] Accepted gpsd 3.22-3 (source) into unstable (Bernd Zeimetz)
[2021-01-16] gpsd 3.22-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-13] Accepted gpsd 3.22-2 (source) into unstable (Bernd Zeimetz)
[2021-01-12] gpsd 3.22-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-12] gpsd 3.22-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-09] Accepted gpsd 3.22-1 (source) into unstable (Bernd Zeimetz)
[2021-01-09] gpsd 3.21.99~rc1-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-06] Accepted gpsd 3.21.99~rc1-2 (source) into unstable (Bernd Zeimetz)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 30 31
RC: 0
I&N: 23 24
M&W: 7
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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version: 3.25-5ubuntu1
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