brltty - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: brltty (main)
version: 6.8-2
maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Samuel Thibault [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.6.2
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 6.3+dfsg-1+deb11u1
oldstable: 6.5-7+deb12u1
old-bpo: 6.7-3.1~bpo12+1
stable: 6.7-3.1
stable-bpo: 6.8-2~bpo13+1
testing: 6.8-2
unstable: 6.8-2

versioned links

6.3+dfsg-1+deb11u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.5-7+deb12u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.7-3.1~bpo12+1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.7-3.1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.8-2~bpo13+1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
6.8-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

brltty (12 bugs: 0, 9, 3, 0)
brltty-espeak
brltty-flite
brltty-speechd
brltty-udeb (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)
brltty-x11 (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
cl-brlapi
libbrlapi-dev
libbrlapi-java
libbrlapi-jni
libbrlapi0.8
python3-brlapi
xbrlapi (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)

action needed

lintian reports 122 warnings normal

Lintian reports 122 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2023-08-06 Last update: 2025-09-10 06:02

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 6.8-3, 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 85c59889439ec897c6396ce38ab80b539c69b852
Author: Alexander Epaneshnikov <aarnaarn2@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 29 22:38:36 2025 +0200

    Set libexec dir to /usr/libexec

commit 8f42ef552a2545c8e317bed4e7cc1942669ef530
Author: Alexander Epaneshnikov <aarnaarn2@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Aug 29 16:43:18 2025 +0300

    install pkgconfig file
    
    some upstream projects expect to find a pkgconfig file for brlapi and other linux distributions ship it

Created: 2025-08-29 Last update: 2025-09-06 05:33

1 open merge request in Salsa normal

There is 1 open merge request for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.

Created: 2025-08-29 Last update: 2025-08-29 23:28

AppStream hints: 2 warnings for brltty normal

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

brltty: 2 warnings

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

Created: 2025-05-02 Last update: 2025-05-02 22:01

debian/patches: 4 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 4 debian patches available in version 6.8-2 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

4 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: 2025-08-25 18:31

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.2 instead of 4.6.2).

Created: 2022-05-11 Last update: 2025-08-25 17:04

testing migrations

This package will soon be part of the auto-icu transition. You might want to ensure that your package is ready for it. You can probably find supplementary information in the debian-release archives or in the corresponding release.debian.org bug.

news

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[2025-09-10] Accepted brltty 6.8-3 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-08-31] Accepted brltty 6.8-2~bpo13+1 (source amd64 all) into stable-backports (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Samuel Thibault)
[2025-08-30] brltty 6.8-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-08-25] Accepted brltty 6.8-2 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-07-12] Accepted brltty 6.8-1 (source amd64 all) into experimental (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-05-13] Accepted brltty 6.7-3.1~bpo12+1 (source) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-05-13] brltty 6.7-3.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-05-02] Accepted brltty 6.7-3.1 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2025-04-27] Accepted brltty 6.7-2 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2024-10-31] Accepted brltty 6.7-1~bpo12+1 (source amd64 all) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2024-10-23] brltty 6.7-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-10-18] Accepted brltty 6.7-1 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2024-05-09] Accepted brltty 6.6-5~bpo12+1 (source) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2024-05-03] brltty 6.6-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-03-25] Accepted brltty 6.6-5 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2024-02-17] Accepted brltty 6.6-4+exp1 (source amd64 all) into experimental (Samuel Thibault)
[2023-11-27] Accepted brltty 6.5-7+deb12u1~bpo11+1 (source) into bullseye-backports (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Samuel Thibault)
[2023-09-16] Accepted brltty 6.5-7+deb12u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Samuel Thibault)
[2023-09-07] Accepted brltty 6.6-4~bpo12+1 (source) into stable-backports (Samuel Thibault)
[2023-09-07] brltty 6.6-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-09-04] Accepted brltty 6.6-4 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2023-09-04] Accepted brltty 6.6-3 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2023-08-21] brltty 6.6-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-08-15] Accepted brltty 6.6-1~bpo12+1 (source amd64 all) into stable-backports (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Samuel Thibault)
[2023-08-15] Accepted brltty 6.6-2 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2023-08-10] brltty 6.6-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-08-05] Accepted brltty 6.6-1 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2023-07-17] Accepted brltty 6.5-7~bpo11+1 (source) into bullseye-backports (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Samuel Thibault)
[2023-04-14] brltty 6.5-7 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-04-05] Accepted brltty 6.5-7 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 13 14
RC: 0
I&N: 10 11
M&W: 3
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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ubuntu

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version: 6.7-1ubuntu3
36 bugs
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