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general

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

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]

binaries

gpsd (16 bugs: 0, 11, 5, 0)
gpsd-clients (4 bugs: 0, 3, 1, 0)
gpsd-tools (2 bugs: 0, 2, 0, 0)
libgps-dev
libgps30t64
libqgpsmm-dev
libqgpsmm30t64 (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
python3-gps (2 bugs: 0, 2, 0, 0)

action needed

A new upstream version is available: 3.26.1 high

A new upstream version 3.26.1 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2025-10-19 Last update: 2025-10-24 19:00

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

Among the 7 debian patches available in version 3.25-5 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: 2025-01-20 10:00

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

1 bug tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 1 bug, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2025-10-24 23:00

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: 2025-10-24 21:31

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: 2025-10-24 17:01

2 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 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)

Created: 2022-04-10 Last update: 2025-10-20 01:30

lintian reports 2 warnings normal

Lintian reports 2 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-08-27 Last update: 2025-08-27 05:00

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.2 instead of 4.7.0).

Created: 2025-02-21 Last update: 2025-02-27 13:25

news

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[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)
[2021-01-05] Accepted gpsd 3.21.99~rc1-1 (source amd64) into experimental, experimental (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Bernd Zeimetz)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 31 32
RC: 0
I&N: 23 24
M&W: 8
F&P: 0
patch: 1

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ubuntu

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version: 3.25-5ubuntu1
2 bugs
patches for 3.25-5ubuntu1