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: 2.3.6-2
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

Marked for autoremoval on 24 July: #1139540 high

Version 2.3.6-2 of p4est is marked for autoremoval from testing on Fri 24 Jul 2026. It is affected by #1139540. You should try to prevent the removal by fixing these RC bugs.

Created: 2026-06-16 Last update: 2026-07-10 19:32

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: 2026-07-10 19:32

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: 2026-06-22 Last update: 2026-07-10 16:50

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

testing migrations

excuses:
- Migration status for p4est (2.3.6-2 to 2.3.6-3): Waiting for test results or another package, or too young (no action required now - check later)
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Lintian check waiting for test results on riscv64 - info
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Updating p4est will fix bugs in testing: #1139540
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/p/p4est.html
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for p4est/2.3.6-3: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, loong64: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on amd64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on arm64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on armhf - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on i386 - info
- ∙ ∙ Required age reduced by 3 days because of autopkgtest
- ∙ ∙ 2 days old (needed 2 days)
- Not considered

news

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[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: 1
RC: 0
I&N: 1
M&W: 0
F&P: 0
patch: 0

links

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version: 2.3.6-2build2