xscreensaver - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: xscreensaver (main)
version: 5.45+dfsg1-2
maintainer: Tormod Volden (DMD)
arch: any
std-ver: 4.5.1
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

oldstable: 5.36-1
stable: 5.42+dfsg1-1
testing: 5.45+dfsg1-2
unstable: 5.45+dfsg1-2

versioned links

5.36-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.42+dfsg1-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.45+dfsg1-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

xscreensaver (101 bugs: 0, 45, 56, 0)
xscreensaver-data (6 bugs: 0, 3, 3, 0)
xscreensaver-data-extra (7 bugs: 0, 5, 2, 0)
xscreensaver-gl (10 bugs: 0, 4, 6, 0)
xscreensaver-gl-extra (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)
xscreensaver-screensaver-webcollage (2 bugs: 0, 1, 1, 0)

action needed

A new upstream version is available: 6.01 high

A new upstream version 6.01 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2021-04-02 Last update: 2021-06-23 16:04

1 security issue in buster high

There is 1 open security issue in buster.

1 important issue:

CVE-2021-34557: XScreenSaver 5.45 can be bypassed if the machine has more than ten disconnectable video outputs. A buffer overflow in update_screen_layout() allows an attacker to bypass the standard screen lock authentication mechanism by crashing XScreenSaver. The attacker must physically disconnect many video outputs.

Created: 2021-04-18 Last update: 2021-06-15 12:00

1 new commit 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 15d80e7ffe52375485a7d8df1d57a331da172ba4
Author: Tormod Volden <debian.tormod@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Jun 6 22:05:19 2021 +0200

    Prevent build install failure on hurd and kfreebsd
    
    Fixup of commit 82ca3712.

Created: 2021-01-23 Last update: 2021-06-17 11:07

lintian reports 2 warnings normal

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

Created: 2021-01-27 Last update: 2021-01-27 03:05

AppStream hints: 1 warning normal

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

xscreensaver: 1 warning

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

Created: 2018-06-04 Last update: 2020-10-18 07:31

news

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[2021-06-14] xscreensaver 5.45+dfsg1-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-06-06] Accepted xscreensaver 5.45+dfsg1-2 (source) into unstable (Tormod Volden) (signed by: Andrew Shadura)
[2021-01-02] xscreensaver 5.45+dfsg1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-12-23] Accepted xscreensaver 5.45+dfsg1-1 (source) into unstable (Tormod Volden) (signed by: Andrew Shadura)
[2020-12-20] xscreensaver 5.44+dfsg1-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-12-20] xscreensaver 5.44+dfsg1-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-12-10] Accepted xscreensaver 5.44+dfsg1-2 (source) into unstable (Tormod Volden) (signed by: Andrew Shadura)
[2020-10-23] xscreensaver 5.44+dfsg1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-10-17] Accepted xscreensaver 5.44+dfsg1-1 (source) into unstable (Andrej Shadura) (signed by: Andrew Shadura)
[2019-02-02] xscreensaver 5.42+dfsg1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-01-27] Accepted xscreensaver 5.42+dfsg1-1 (source) into unstable (Tormod Volden) (signed by: Antoine Beaupré)
[2018-10-02] xscreensaver 5.40-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-09-26] Accepted xscreensaver 5.40-1 (source) into unstable (Tormod Volden) (signed by: Antoine Beaupré)
[2017-01-02] xscreensaver 5.36-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-12-23] Accepted xscreensaver 5.36-1 (source amd64) into unstable (Tormod Volden) (signed by: Axel Beckert)
[2016-04-16] Accepted xscreensaver 5.30-1+deb8u2 (source amd64) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Tormod Volden) (signed by: Axel Beckert)
[2016-04-11] xscreensaver 5.34-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2016-04-05] Accepted xscreensaver 5.34-2 (source amd64) into unstable (Tormod Volden) (signed by: Axel Beckert)
[2016-01-12] Accepted xscreensaver 5.15-3+deb7u1 (source i386) into oldstable-proposed-updates->oldstable-new, oldstable-proposed-updates (Antoine Beaupré) (signed by: Michael Gilbert)
[2016-01-12] Accepted xscreensaver 5.30-1+deb8u1 (source amd64) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Tormod Volden) (signed by: Michael Gilbert)
[2015-10-31] Accepted xscreensaver 5.11-1+deb6u11 (source amd64) into squeeze-lts (Chris Lamb)
[2015-10-31] xscreensaver 5.34-1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2015-10-26] Accepted xscreensaver 5.34-1 (source armhf) into unstable (Tormod Volden) (signed by: Jose Luis Rivas)
[2015-08-27] xscreensaver 5.33-1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2015-08-17] Accepted xscreensaver 5.33-1 (source amd64) into unstable (Tormod Volden) (signed by: Jose Luis Rivas)
[2014-10-19] xscreensaver 5.30-1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2014-10-08] Accepted xscreensaver 5.30-1 (source i386) into unstable (Tormod Volden) (signed by: Jose Luis Rivas)
[2014-10-05] xscreensaver 5.29-1 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
[2014-09-24] Accepted xscreensaver 5.29-1 (source i386) into unstable (Tormod Volden) (signed by: Jose Luis Rivas)
[2014-03-17] xscreensaver 5.26-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 129 130
RC: 0
I&N: 61
M&W: 68 69
F&P: 0
patch: 0

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ubuntu

[Information about Ubuntu for Debian Developers]

version: 5.45+dfsg1-2ubuntu1
106 bugs (3 patches)
patches for 5.45+dfsg1-2ubuntu1