nethack - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: nethack (main)
version: 3.6.7-3
maintainer: Debian Games Team (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Vincent Cheng [DMD] – James Cowgill [DMD]
arch: any
std-ver: 4.7.4
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

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

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]
3.6.7-3: [.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

A new upstream version is available: 5.0.0 high

A new upstream version 5.0.0 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2026-05-04 Last update: 2026-05-13 10:01

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: 2026-04-06 Last update: 2026-05-13 10:30

AppStream hints: 2 warnings for nethack-x11,nethack-qt 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: 2026-02-23 04:00

lintian reports 1 warning normal

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

Created: 2025-09-08 Last update: 2025-09-08 09:03

Issues found with some translations low

Automatic checks made by the Debian l10n team found some issues with the translations contained in this package. You should check the l10n status report for more information.

Issues can be things such as missing translations, problematic translated strings, outdated PO files, unknown languages, etc.

Created: 2026-05-04 Last update: 2026-05-04 15:16

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: 2026-05-09 07:00

news

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[2026-05-09] nethack 3.6.7-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-05-03] Accepted nethack 3.6.7-3 (source) into unstable (Alexandre Detiste)
[2025-09-14] nethack 3.6.7-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-07] Accepted nethack 3.6.7-2 (source) into unstable (Vincent Cheng)
[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)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 19 20
RC: 0
I&N: 9
M&W: 10 11
F&P: 0
patch: 2 3

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version: 3.6.7-2build1
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