nethack - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: nethack (main)
version: 3.6.7-1
maintainer: Debian Games Team (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: James Cowgill [DMD] – Vincent Cheng [DMD]
arch: 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]

oldstable: 3.6.6-2
stable: 3.6.6-3
testing: 3.6.7-1
unstable: 3.6.7-1

versioned links

3.6.6-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
3.6.6-3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
3.6.7-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

nethack-common (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)
nethack-console (6 bugs: 0, 2, 4, 0)
nethack-qt (2 bugs: 0, 2, 0, 0)
nethack-x11 (5 bugs: 0, 4, 1, 0)

action needed

2 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 2 bugs (3 if counting merged bugs), consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2025-07-20 05:31

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 6dd5323773670abcf40dc9761aff0400a33215dc
Merge: 885e75e 3f9f08e
Author: Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Apr 6 13:33:23 2025 +0000

    Merge branch 'update-translation-ca' into 'master'
    
    Update/add Catalan po-debconf translation
    
    See merge request games-team/nethack!3

commit 3f9f08e38d460730fc84e0195175db2547dbba2e
Author: Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat>
Date:   Sun Apr 6 06:19:52 2025 +0000

    Update po-debconf Catalan translation

Created: 2025-04-06 Last update: 2025-07-18 17:32

lintian reports 2 warnings normal

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

Created: 2023-07-03 Last update: 2024-03-01 12:05

AppStream hints: 2 warnings normal

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

nethack-qt: 1 warning
nethack-x11: 1 warning

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

Created: 2019-06-08 Last update: 2022-09-04 05:18

debian/patches: 9 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 10 debian patches available in version 3.6.7-1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

9 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: 2023-07-03 08:31

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 4.6.2).

Created: 2024-04-07 Last update: 2025-02-27 13:25

No known security issue in bookworm wishlist

There is 1 open security issue in bookworm.

1 ignored issue:

CVE-2023-24809: NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game. Starting with version 3.6.2 and prior to version 3.6.7, illegal input to the "C" (call) command can cause a buffer overflow and crash the NetHack process. This vulnerability may be a security issue for systems that have NetHack installed suid/sgid and for shared systems. For all systems, it may result in a process crash. This issue is resolved in NetHack 3.6.7. There are no known workarounds.

Created: 2023-06-10 Last update: 2025-02-27 05:02

news

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[2023-07-08] nethack 3.6.7-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-07-02] Accepted nethack 3.6.7-1 (source) into unstable (Reiner Herrmann) (signed by: Markus Koschany)
[2022-08-28] nethack 3.6.6-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-08-23] Accepted nethack 3.6.6-3 (source) into unstable (Reiner Herrmann) (signed by: Markus Koschany)
[2021-01-18] nethack 3.6.6-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-10] Accepted nethack 3.6.6-2 (source amd64) into unstable, unstable (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Markus Koschany)
[2020-05-31] Accepted nethack 3.6.6-1 (source) into unstable (Markus Koschany)
[2020-03-05] nethack REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-09-22] nethack 3.6.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-09-16] Accepted nethack 3.6.1-1 (source) into unstable (James Cowgill)
[2016-07-02] nethack 3.6.0-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-06-26] Accepted nethack 3.6.0-4 (source) into unstable (James Cowgill)
[2016-04-08] nethack 3.6.0-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-04-01] Accepted nethack 3.6.0-3 (source) into unstable (James Cowgill)
[2016-03-29] nethack 3.6.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-03-23] Accepted nethack 3.6.0-2 (source) into unstable (James Cowgill)
[2016-03-23] nethack 3.6.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-03-11] Accepted nethack 3.6.0-1 (source) into unstable (James Cowgill)
[2014-05-17] nethack 3.4.3-15 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2014-05-12] Accepted nethack 3.4.3-15 (source amd64) (Vincent Cheng)
[2012-06-23] nethack 3.4.3-14 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2012-06-12] Accepted nethack 3.4.3-14 (source amd64) (Vincent Cheng) (signed by: Bernhard R. Link)
[2012-05-30] nethack 3.4.3-13 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2012-05-19] Accepted nethack 3.4.3-13 (source amd64) (Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez) (signed by: Ana Beatriz Guerrero López)
[2012-02-21] nethack 3.4.3-12.3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2012-02-10] Accepted nethack 3.4.3-12.3 (source i386) (Christian Perrier)
[2011-09-08] nethack 3.4.3-12.2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2011-08-28] Accepted nethack 3.4.3-12.2 (source amd64) (Luca Falavigna)
[2010-05-20] nethack 3.4.3-12.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2010-05-14] Accepted nethack 3.4.3-12.1 (source i386) (Luca Falavigna)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 20 21
RC: 0
I&N: 10
M&W: 10 11
F&P: 0
patch: 2 3

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version: 3.6.7-1build3
3 bugs