p4est - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: p4est (main)
version: 2.3.6-3
maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Matthias Maier [DMD] – Graham Inggs [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: 2.2-3
oldstable: 2.2-3
stable: 2.3.6-2
testing: 2.3.6-3
unstable: 2.3.6-3

versioned links

2.2-3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.3.6-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.3.6-3: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

libp4est-2.3
libp4est-dev
libp4est-sc-2.3

action needed

A new upstream version is available: 2.8.7 high

A new upstream version 2.8.7 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2026-07-09 Last update: 2026-10-05 01:00

Fails to build during reproducibility 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: 2026-09-12 Last update: 2026-10-04 19:34

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 2.8.7-1, 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 2c27512374ec5a5c9cb6cd244348896f6f6a2f2e
Author: Matthias Maier <tamiko+DEBIAN@kyomu.43-1.org>
Date:   Wed Sep 16 11:38:04 2026 -0500

    update debian files for new release

commit 1991e7a1debb30d6c24c8ee92286dde575ce0c5b
Merge: 148ab05 7dcea6e
Author: Matthias Maier <tamiko+DEBIAN@kyomu.43-1.org>
Date:   Wed Sep 16 11:29:35 2026 -0500

    Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/2.8.7'
    
    Update to upstream version '2.8.7'
    with Debian dir 1c3557bdcd39b17a08197c487a8f3d0f3ef6bb6f

commit 7dcea6e6b30b2d853bc7edd37e65e20381275ed6
Author: Matthias Maier <tamiko+DEBIAN@kyomu.43-1.org>
Date:   Wed Sep 16 11:29:33 2026 -0500

    New upstream version 2.8.7

https://salsa.debian.org/api/v4/projects/science-team%2Fp4est API request failed: 401 Unauthorized at /srv/qa.debian.org/data/vcswatch/vcswatch line 410.

Created: 2026-09-16 Last update: 2026-09-27 06:32

lintian reports 2 warnings normal

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

Created: 2026-07-09 Last update: 2026-07-09 09:18

debian/patches: 5 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 6 debian patches available in version 2.3.6-3 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

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: 2026-07-09 11:00

news

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[2026-07-11] p4est 2.3.6-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-07-09] Accepted p4est 2.3.6-3 (source) into unstable (Santiago Vila)
[2024-12-05] p4est 2.3.6-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-11-06] Accepted p4est 2.3.6-2 (source) into unstable (Santiago Vila)
[2023-09-17] p4est 2.3.6-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-09-15] Accepted p4est 2.3.6-1 (source) into unstable (Matthias Maier) (signed by: Graham Inggs)
[2023-09-06] Accepted p4est 2.3.6-1~exp1 (source amd64) into experimental (Matthias Maier) (signed by: Graham Inggs)
[2022-02-17] Accepted p4est 2.3.3-1~exp1 (source amd64) into experimental, experimental (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Graham Inggs)
[2019-08-16] Accepted p4est 2.2-3~bpo10+1 (source amd64) into buster-backports, buster-backports (Matthias Maier) (signed by: Graham Inggs)
[2019-08-09] p4est 2.2-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-08-07] Accepted p4est 2.2-3 (source) into unstable (Graham Inggs)
[2019-08-03] p4est 2.2-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-07-12] Accepted p4est 2.2-2 (source) into unstable (Graham Inggs)
[2019-07-11] Accepted p4est 2.2-1 (source amd64) into experimental, experimental (Matthias Maier) (signed by: Graham Inggs)
[2017-10-15] p4est 1.1-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-10-10] Accepted p4est 1.1-5 (source) into unstable (Graham Inggs)
[2016-12-17] p4est 1.1-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-12-06] Accepted p4est 1.1-4 (source) into unstable (Matthias Maier) (signed by: Graham Inggs)
[2016-09-22] p4est REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-09-09] Accepted p4est 1.1-3 (source) into unstable (Graham Inggs)
[2016-07-22] p4est 1.1-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-07-16] Accepted p4est 1.1-2 (source) into unstable (Matthias Maier) (signed by: Graham Inggs)
[2016-07-15] Accepted p4est 1.1-1 (source amd64) into unstable, unstable (Matthias Maier) (signed by: Graham Inggs)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 0

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