tesseract - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: tesseract (main)
version: 5.5.0-1.1
maintainer: Alexander Pozdnyakov (DMD)
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.7.0
VCS: unknown

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 4.1.1-2.1
oldstable: 5.3.0-2
stable: 5.5.0-1
testing: 5.5.0-1.1
unstable: 5.5.0-1.1

versioned links

4.1.1-2.1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.3.0-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.5.0-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.5.0-1.1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

libtesseract-dev (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
libtesseract5
tesseract-ocr (5 bugs: 0, 5, 0, 0)
tesseract-ocr-all

action needed

2 security issues in trixie high

There are 2 open security issues in trixie.

2 important issues:

CVE-2026-73066:
CVE-2026-73067:

Created: 2026-08-11 Last update: 2026-08-11 22:30

2 security issues in sid high

There are 2 open security issues in sid.

2 important issues:

CVE-2026-73066:
CVE-2026-73067:

Created: 2026-08-11 Last update: 2026-08-11 22:30

2 security issues in forky high

There are 2 open security issues in forky.

2 important issues:

CVE-2026-73066:
CVE-2026-73067:

Created: 2026-08-11 Last update: 2026-08-11 22:30

3 security issues in bullseye high

There are 3 open security issues in bullseye.

2 important issues:

CVE-2026-73066:
CVE-2026-73067:

1 issue postponed or untriaged:

CVE-2021-36081: (needs triaging) Tesseract OCR 5.0.0-alpha-20201231 has a one_ell_conflict use-after-free during a strpbrk call.

Created: 2026-08-11 Last update: 2026-08-11 22:30

2 security issues in bookworm high

There are 2 open security issues in bookworm.

2 important issues:

CVE-2026-73066:
CVE-2026-73067:

Created: 2026-08-11 Last update: 2026-08-11 22:30

A new upstream version is available: 5.5.3 high

A new upstream version 5.5.3 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2025-11-27 Last update: 2026-08-11 18:30

2 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 2 bugs, consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2026-06-02 Last update: 2026-08-11 22:01

Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal

The packages that tesseract depends on which need a new maintainer are:

docbook-xsl (#802370)
- Build-Depends: docbook-xsl

Created: 2023-09-01 Last update: 2026-08-11 20:32

debian/patches: 1 patch to forward upstream low

Among the 1 debian patch available in version 5.5.0-1.1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

1 patch 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: 2026-04-01 07:30

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.4 instead of 4.7.0).

Created: 2025-02-21 Last update: 2026-04-01 00:00

news

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[2026-04-06] tesseract 5.5.0-1.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-03-31] Accepted tesseract 5.5.0-1.1 (source) into unstable (Adrian Bunk)
[2025-02-04] tesseract 5.5.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-01-28] Accepted tesseract 5.5.0-1 (source) into unstable (Alexander Pozdnyakov) (signed by: bage@debian.org)
[2024-10-21] tesseract 5.3.4-1.4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-10-07] Accepted tesseract 5.3.4-1.4 (source) into unstable (Jeff Breidenbach)
[2024-10-05] Accepted tesseract 5.3.4-1.3 (source) into unstable (Jeff Breidenbach)
[2024-10-05] Accepted tesseract 5.3.4-1.2 (source) into unstable (Jeff Breidenbach)
[2024-05-03] tesseract 5.3.4-1.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-03-20] Accepted tesseract 5.3.4-1.1 (source) into unstable (Andrey Rakhmatullin) (signed by: Andrey Rahmatullin)
[2024-02-12] tesseract 5.3.4-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-02-07] Accepted tesseract 5.3.4-1 (source) into unstable (Alexander Pozdnyakov) (signed by: bage@debian.org)
[2023-12-04] tesseract 5.3.3-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-11-29] Accepted tesseract 5.3.3-1 (source) into unstable (Alexander Pozdnyakov) (signed by: bage@debian.org)
[2023-01-19] tesseract 5.3.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-01-11] Accepted tesseract 5.3.0-2 (source) into unstable (Alexander Pozdnyakov) (signed by: bage@debian.org)
[2023-01-09] Accepted tesseract 5.3.0-1 (source) into unstable (Alexander Pozdnyakov) (signed by: bage@debian.org)
[2022-06-09] tesseract 5.1.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-06-03] Accepted tesseract 5.1.0-2 (source) into unstable (Alexander Pozdnyakov) (signed by: bage@debian.org)
[2022-06-01] Accepted tesseract 5.1.0-1 (source amd64 all) into unstable, unstable (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: bage@debian.org)
[2021-02-10] tesseract 4.1.1-2.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-02-04] Accepted tesseract 4.1.1-2.1 (source) into unstable (Paul Gevers)
[2020-01-28] tesseract 4.1.1-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-01-23] Accepted tesseract 4.1.1-2 (source) into unstable (Alexander Pozdnyakov) (signed by: Jeff Breidenbach)
[2020-01-16] tesseract 4.1.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-01-10] Accepted tesseract 4.1.1-1 (source) into unstable (Alexander Pozdnyakov) (signed by: Jeff Breidenbach)
[2019-10-05] tesseract 4.1.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-09-29] Accepted tesseract 4.1.0-2 (source) into unstable (Alexander Pozdnyakov) (signed by: Jeff Breidenbach)
[2019-08-16] Accepted tesseract 4.1.0-1 (source amd64 all) into unstable (Alexander Pozdnyakov) (signed by: Jeff Breidenbach)
[2019-06-03] Accepted tesseract 4.0.0-2~bpo9+1 (source) into stretch-backports->backports-policy, stretch-backports (Paul Wise)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 7
RC: 0
I&N: 6
M&W: 1
F&P: 0
patch: 2

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