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general

source: x11vnc (main)
version: 0.9.17-1
maintainer: Debian Remote Maintainers (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Antoni Villalonga [DMD]
arch: any
std-ver: 4.7.2
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 0.9.16-7
oldstable: 0.9.16-9
stable: 0.9.17-1
testing: 0.9.17-1
unstable: 0.9.17-1

versioned links

0.9.16-7: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.9.16-9: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
0.9.17-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

x11vnc (13 bugs: 0, 12, 1, 0)

action needed

Marked for autoremoval on 24 January: #1106919 high

Version 0.9.17-1 of x11vnc is marked for autoremoval from testing on Sat 24 Jan 2026. It is affected by #1106919. The removal of x11vnc will also cause the removal of (transitive) reverse dependencies: gitso, veyon. You should try to prevent the removal by fixing these RC bugs.

Created: 2025-11-13 Last update: 2026-01-15 12:02

debian/patches: 1 patch with invalid metadata high

Among the 4 debian patches available in version 0.9.17-1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

1 patch with invalid metadata that ought to be fixed.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2025-05-05 08:00

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 0.9.17-2, 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 e58ddd7644506da24fe7d95bec1889a6007d117c
Author: Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 14 22:40:41 2026 +0100

    Revert "d/rules: Drop defines and includes which are default nowadays."
    
    This reverts commit a2522a252aaa94f194fde62e3e014b27ceae6536.

commit a2522a252aaa94f194fde62e3e014b27ceae6536
Author: Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 14 22:14:03 2026 +0100

    d/rules: Drop defines and includes which are default nowadays.

commit 1a67ac6269e6b755a749594b0c18203f5de3e350
Author: Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 14 21:41:08 2026 +0100

    d/copyright: Extend packaging copyrights.

commit 30f49578d19f628185f00d41ec505ab613cdfec7
Author: Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 14 21:35:48 2026 +0100

    d/copyright: Rework it for readability.

commit c9912ae9ba4bd1acbbd08088c830b5ada1fc4410
Author: Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 14 21:23:55 2026 +0100

    d/copyright: Rectify license from GPL-2 to GPL-2+.

commit 9ae9d5a705fa2c4b86c8a9b3c50b3a167686f44c
Author: Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 14 21:21:06 2026 +0100

    d/copyright: Drop Upstream-Contact for being outdated.

commit f74907aea4df0e24c054c86a2f82cda6088580b7
Author: Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 14 20:52:32 2026 +0100

    d/control: Let Homepage point to current upstream.

commit 07c0a9eb2faa10e5805f64e913bdf03b3bf0f4e5
Author: Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 14 20:51:20 2026 +0100

    d/control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.3.

commit ef2aee7695ddffd6427872ed290a84a1d323b470
Author: Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 14 20:49:37 2026 +0100

    d/control: Drop 'Rules-Requires-Root: no', it is the default now.

commit de542f181cc34f2443a8d7792b83a82929835552
Author: Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 14 20:49:09 2026 +0100

    d/control: Add myself to Uploaders.

commit e3eecfd596cbc57186a78c58791c47f2106675d7
Author: Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 14 20:47:24 2026 +0100

    d/watch: Update it to version 5 format.

commit 5f49e07084be9ec6908b5aa1d2354e667991b041
Author: Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 14 20:40:31 2026 +0100

    d/u/signing-key.asc: Dropped, it did not correspond to current upstream.

commit 7b6656d9f704656137d76a4819912611059041d7
Author: Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 14 20:37:43 2026 +0100

    d/gbp.conf: Introduce gbp configuration, rename branches to comply with DEP-14.

commit 6941e158f1498ea993f75ab352d347e5e7320f1f
Author: Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jan 14 20:37:00 2026 +0100

    d/changelog: Initialize new changelog entry.

commit 9a6dde7e924065c569541b06971bfd3ab18d647d
Author: Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Dec 25 16:05:34 2025 +0100

    d/control: Add libcrypt-dev to Build-Depends (Closes: #1106919).

commit 3e1968068e293807dbe1d9ab5796038a5a32e8e8
Author: Sven Geuer <sge@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Dec 25 16:17:50 2025 +0100

    d/rules: Make sure also the CPPFLAGS are honored during the build.

Created: 2026-01-14 Last update: 2026-01-14 22:33

lintian reports 2 warnings normal

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

Created: 2025-05-05 Last update: 2025-05-05 10:31

AppStream hints: 1 warning normal

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

x11vnc: 1 warning

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

Created: 2020-06-01 Last update: 2020-06-01 01:13

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.3 instead of 4.7.2).

Created: 2025-12-23 Last update: 2025-12-23 20:00

news

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[2025-05-15] x11vnc 0.9.17-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-05-04] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.17-1 (source) into unstable (Mike Gabriel)
[2024-04-25] x11vnc 0.9.16-10 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-04-02] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.16-10 (source) into unstable (Mike Gabriel)
[2023-02-09] x11vnc 0.9.16-9 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-02-06] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.16-9 (source) into unstable (Mike Gabriel)
[2021-12-17] x11vnc 0.9.16-8 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-12-13] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.16-8 (source) into unstable (Antoni Villalonga) (signed by: Mike Gabriel)
[2021-03-08] x11vnc 0.9.16-7 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-02-25] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.16-7 (source) into unstable (Mike Gabriel)
[2021-01-03] x11vnc 0.9.16-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-12-10] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.13-2+deb9u2 (source all amd64) into oldstable (Thorsten Alteholz)
[2020-12-04] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.16-6 (source) into unstable (Antoni Villalonga) (signed by: Mike Gabriel)
[2020-12-04] x11vnc 0.9.16-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-11-28] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.16-5 (source) into unstable (Antoni Villalonga) (signed by: Mike Gabriel)
[2020-11-28] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.13-6+deb10u1 (source) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Salvatore Bonaccorso)
[2020-11-28] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.13-6+deb10u1 (source) into stable->embargoed, stable (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Salvatore Bonaccorso)
[2020-07-31] x11vnc 0.9.16-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-07-24] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.16-4 (source) into unstable (Antoni Villalonga) (signed by: Mike Gabriel)
[2020-01-05] x11vnc 0.9.16-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-12-19] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.16-3 (source) into unstable (Antoni Villalonga) (signed by: Mike Gabriel)
[2019-07-10] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.16-1 (source) into experimental (Antoni Villalonga) (signed by: Bart Martens)
[2018-09-02] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.13-2+deb9u1 (source all amd64) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Nikita Yushchenko)
[2018-05-14] x11vnc 0.9.13-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-05-08] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.13-6 (source all amd64) into unstable (Nikita Yushchenko)
[2018-04-24] x11vnc 0.9.13-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-04-13] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.13-5 (source all amd64) into unstable (Nikita Yushchenko)
[2018-04-12] Accepted x11vnc 0.9.13-4 (source all amd64) into unstable (Nikita Yushchenko)
[2018-04-11] x11vnc 0.9.13-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-04-10] x11vnc 0.9.13-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 14
RC: 0
I&N: 12
M&W: 1
F&P: 1
patch: 0

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