viking - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: viking (main)
version: 1.10+git20250612.b98e55e-2
maintainer: be my guest (DMD)
arch: any
std-ver: 3.8.4
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 1.8-4
oldstable: 1.10-2
stable: 1.10-4
testing: 1.10+git20250612.b98e55e-2
unstable: 1.10+git20250612.b98e55e-2

versioned links

1.8-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1.10-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1.10-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
1.10+git20250612.b98e55e-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

viking (9 bugs: 0, 5, 4, 0)

action needed

Standards version of the package is outdated. high

The package is severely out of date with respect to the Debian Policy. The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.2 instead of 3.8.4).

Created: 2015-09-16 Last update: 2025-10-02 18:32

Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal

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

docbook-xml (#802368)
- Build-Depends: docbook-xml
docbook-xsl (#802370)
- Build-Depends: docbook-xsl

Created: 2023-09-01 Last update: 2025-11-02 15:01

6 new commits since last upload, is it time to release? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have new commits in its VCS but has not yet updated debian/changelog. You should consider updating the Debian changelog and uploading this new version into the archive.

Here are the relevant commit logs:

commit 3852e2ad3d8bc4d762c46e480bb5483fce6c59b9
Author: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Oct 23 08:01:39 2025 +0200

    d/control: fix typo in Uploaders field name

commit 7a6c28a93cd64c41bb16ea3f6f34e4459092be45
Author: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Oct 2 12:33:14 2025 +0200

    Update d/changelog for release 1.10+git20250612.b98e55e-2

commit d1ec73bed083b668b31de0fd909211f187e5b936
Author: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Oct 2 12:32:39 2025 +0200

    Drop git commits from changelog
    
    I don't like them

commit f0a73dda26eb734165c7f2b34192d03d8e2c8e1a
Author: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Oct 2 12:27:56 2025 +0200

    Drop no-doc-dir, it seems we can build without the patch

commit ca21bd4480cc86d9b04860b27394774da0550e93
Author: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Oct 2 10:07:03 2025 +0200

    Refresh B-D
    
    * drop docbook-xml, can find references
    * drop version constrains (ancient)
    * upstream says we need libglib2.0-dev-bin (i.s.o. libglib2.0-dev)

commit 6950ed6df8a1a987b39dca11c23f23c880b51dc1
Author: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Oct 2 09:41:58 2025 +0200

    Drop gnome-common from Build-Depends, it's no longer used
    
    Closes: #830046

Created: 2025-10-02 Last update: 2025-10-31 08:31

lintian reports 5 warnings normal

Lintian reports 5 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-10-02 Last update: 2025-10-02 22:30

AppStream hints: 1 warning for viking normal

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

viking: 1 warning

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

Created: 2020-03-23 Last update: 2025-10-01 12:00

debian/patches: 2 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 2 debian patches available in version 1.10+git20250612.b98e55e-2 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

2 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: 2025-10-02 21:34

news

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[2025-10-07] viking 1.10+git20250612.b98e55e-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-10-02] Accepted viking 1.10+git20250612.b98e55e-2 (source) into unstable (Paul Gevers)
[2025-09-30] Accepted viking 1.10+git20250612.b98e55e-1 (source) into unstable (Paul Gevers)
[2025-09-21] viking REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-09-10] viking 1.10-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-09-05] Accepted viking 1.10-4 (source) into unstable (Petter Reinholdtsen)
[2024-05-03] viking 1.10-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-04-18] Accepted viking 1.10-3 (source) into unstable (Paul Gevers)
[2022-01-07] viking 1.10-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-01-02] Accepted viking 1.10-2 (source) into unstable (Paul Gevers)
[2021-12-31] Accepted viking 1.10-1 (source) into unstable (Paul Gevers)
[2021-01-16] viking 1.8-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-01-09] Accepted viking 1.8-4 (source) into unstable (Paul Gevers)
[2020-08-03] viking 1.8-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-07-29] Accepted viking 1.8-3 (source) into unstable (Paul Gevers)
[2020-07-11] viking 1.8-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-07-05] Accepted viking 1.8-2 (source) into unstable (Paul Gevers)
[2020-07-02] Accepted viking 1.8-1 (source) into unstable (Paul Gevers)
[2020-04-10] viking REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-01-20] viking 1.7-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-01-14] Accepted viking 1.7-2 (source) into unstable (Bernd Zeimetz)
[2019-02-08] viking 1.7-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-02-02] Accepted viking 1.7-1 (source) into unstable (Bernd Zeimetz)
[2018-11-02] viking 1.6.2-3.2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-10-28] Accepted viking 1.6.2-3.2 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bicha)
[2018-10-22] Accepted viking 1.6.2-3.1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bicha)
[2017-10-26] viking 1.6.2-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-10-05] viking REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-11-24] viking 1.6.2-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-11-18] Accepted viking 1.6.2-3 (source amd64) into unstable (Bernd Zeimetz)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 8 9
RC: 0
I&N: 5
M&W: 3 4
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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