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source: ocaml (main)
version: 4.08.1-8
maintainer: Debian OCaml Maintainers (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Ralf Treinen [DMD] – Ximin Luo [DMD] – Stéphane Glondu [DMD] – Mehdi Dogguy [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.4.1
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 4.01.0-5
oldstable: 4.02.3-9
stable: 4.05.0-11
testing: 4.08.1-8
unstable: 4.08.1-8

versioned links

4.01.0-5: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.02.3-9: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.05.0-11: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
4.08.1-8: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

ocaml (8 bugs: 0, 4, 4, 0)
ocaml-base
ocaml-base-nox
ocaml-compiler-libs
ocaml-interp
ocaml-man
ocaml-nox (3 bugs: 0, 1, 2, 0)
ocaml-source

action needed

A new upstream version is available: 4.11.0~alpha1 high

A new upstream version 4.11.0~alpha1 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2019-01-28 Last update: 2020-06-01 12:32

lintian reports 13 errors and 9 warnings high

Lintian reports 13 errors and 9 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2020-05-21 Last update: 2020-05-21 00:06

AppStream hints: 1 error high

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

ocaml-interp: 1 error

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

Created: 2018-06-04 Last update: 2018-06-04 02:27

1 bug tagged help in the BTS normal

The BTS contains 1 bug tagged help, please consider helping the maintainer in dealing with it.

Created: 2019-03-21 Last update: 2020-06-01 18:02

1 bug tagged patch in the BTS normal

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

Created: 2020-02-26 Last update: 2020-06-01 18:02

version in VCS is newer than in repository, is it time to upload? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version 4.08.1-9, distribution UNRELEASED) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:

commit 8a6c43ede856dcef29de3efd294f58666d686b4a
Author: Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Apr 27 15:43:55 2020 +0200

    tuareg-mode => elpa-tuareg

Created: 2020-04-27 Last update: 2020-05-29 06:45

Multiarch hinter reports 2 issue(s) low

There are issues with the multiarch metadata for this package.

ocaml-man could be marked Multi-Arch: foreign
ocaml-source could be marked Multi-Arch: foreign

Created: 2016-09-14 Last update: 2020-06-01 14:30

3 ignored security issues in jessie low

There are 3 open security issues in jessie.

3 issues skipped by the security teams:

CVE-2015-8869: OCaml before 4.03.0 does not properly handle sign extensions, which allows remote attackers to conduct buffer overflow attacks or obtain sensitive information as demonstrated by a long string to the String.copy function.
CVE-2017-9779: OCaml compiler allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, a similar issue to CVE-2017-9772 "but with much less impact."
CVE-2018-9838: The caml_ba_deserialize function in byterun/bigarray.c in the standard library in OCaml 4.06.0 has an integer overflow which, in situations where marshalled data is accepted from an untrusted source, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted object.

Please fix them.

Created: 2016-04-29 Last update: 2020-02-04 06:16

2 ignored security issues in stretch low

There are 2 open security issues in stretch.

2 issues skipped by the security teams:

CVE-2017-9779: OCaml compiler allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors, a similar issue to CVE-2017-9772 "but with much less impact."
CVE-2018-9838: The caml_ba_deserialize function in byterun/bigarray.c in the standard library in OCaml 4.06.0 has an integer overflow which, in situations where marshalled data is accepted from an untrusted source, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted object.

Please fix them.

Created: 2017-09-08 Last update: 2020-02-04 06:16

Build log checks report 2 warnings low

Build log checks report 2 warnings

Created: 2017-10-26 Last update: 2020-01-14 21:00

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.5.0 instead of 4.4.1).

Created: 2020-01-21 Last update: 2020-01-30 18:38

news

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[2020-02-04] ocaml 4.08.1-8 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-02-04] ocaml 4.08.1-8 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-01-30] Accepted ocaml 4.08.1-8 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2020-01-21] ocaml 4.08.1-7 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-01-14] Accepted ocaml 4.08.1-7 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2020-01-11] ocaml 4.08.1-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-01-11] ocaml 4.08.1-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-12-29] Accepted ocaml 4.08.1-6 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2019-12-07] ocaml 4.08.1-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-12-02] Accepted ocaml 4.08.1-5 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2019-11-24] ocaml 4.08.1-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-11-24] ocaml 4.08.1-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-11-08] Accepted ocaml 4.08.1-4 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2019-11-06] Accepted ocaml 4.08.1-3 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2019-11-04] Accepted ocaml 4.08.1-2 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2019-09-30] Accepted ocaml 4.08.1-1 (source) into experimental (Stéphane Glondu)
[2019-08-11] ocaml 4.05.0-12 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-08-06] Accepted ocaml 4.05.0-12 (source) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2019-07-30] Accepted ocaml 4.08.0-3 (source) into experimental (Stéphane Glondu)
[2019-07-24] Accepted ocaml 4.08.0-2 (source) into experimental (Stéphane Glondu)
[2019-07-23] Accepted ocaml 4.08.0-1 (source amd64 all) into experimental, experimental (Stéphane Glondu)
[2019-01-31] ocaml 4.05.0-11 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-01-25] Accepted ocaml 4.05.0-11 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Stéphane Glondu)
[2018-01-03] ocaml 4.05.0-10 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-10-04] Accepted ocaml 4.05.0-10 (source) into unstable (Ximin Luo)
[2017-09-15] Accepted ocaml 4.05.0-9 (source) into unstable (Ximin Luo)
[2017-09-14] Accepted ocaml 4.05.0-8 (source) into experimental (Ximin Luo)
[2017-07-31] Accepted ocaml 4.05.0-7 (source) into experimental (Ximin Luo)
[2017-07-29] Accepted ocaml 4.05.0-6 (source) into experimental (Ximin Luo)
[2017-07-23] Accepted ocaml 4.05.0-5 (source) into experimental (Ximin Luo)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 16
RC: 0
I&N: 7
M&W: 9
F&P: 0
patch: 1
help: 1
NC: 1

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