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XZ-format compression utilities

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source: xz-utils (main)
version: 5.8.4-1
maintainer: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (DMD)
uploaders: Jonathan Nieder [DMD] – Otto Kekäläinen [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.7.4
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 5.2.5-2.1~deb11u1
o-o-sec: 5.2.5-2.1~deb11u2
oldstable: 5.4.1-1+deb12u1
old-sec: 5.4.1-1
old-p-u: 5.4.1-1+deb12u1
stable: 5.8.1-1+deb13u1
testing: 5.8.3-1
unstable: 5.8.4-1

versioned links

5.2.5-2.1~deb11u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.2.5-2.1~deb11u2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.4.1-1+deb12u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.4.1-1+deb12u2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.8.1-1+deb13u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.8.3-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
5.8.4-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

liblzma-dev
liblzma-doc
liblzma5 (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)
liblzma5-udeb
xz-utils (3 bugs: 0, 1, 2, 0)
xzdec

action needed

1 security issue in trixie high

There is 1 open security issue in trixie.

1 important issue:

TEMP-1147318-639065:

Created: 2026-09-10 Last update: 2026-09-12 20:33

1 security issue in forky high

There is 1 open security issue in forky.

1 important issue:

TEMP-1147318-639065:

Created: 2026-09-10 Last update: 2026-09-12 20:33

1 security issue in bookworm high

There is 1 open security issue in bookworm.

1 important issue:

TEMP-1147318-639065:

Created: 2026-09-10 Last update: 2026-09-12 20:33

2 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

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

Created: 2026-09-02 Last update: 2026-09-17 16:00

lintian reports 1 warning normal

Lintian reports 1 warning about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2026-09-12 Last update: 2026-09-12 22:31

testing migrations

excuses:
- Migration status for xz-utils (5.8.3-1 to 5.8.4-1): BLOCKED: Rejected/violates migration policy/introduces a regression
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for binutils/2.47-2: amd64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), armhf: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for debusine/0.15.0: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for dracut/112-2: amd64: Pass ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Pass ♻
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for dracut/112-6: arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/1.8.8-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for glibc/2.43-5: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for libgnatcoll-bindings/25.0.0-2.2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Test triggered, ppc64el: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for libgnatcoll-bindings/n/a: riscv64: Reference test triggered, but real test failed already ♻
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for lintian/2.139.0: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for python3.13/3.13.15-1: amd64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), armhf: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for python3.14/3.14.7-3: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Test triggered (failure will be ignored)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for python3.15/3.15.0~rc2-1: amd64: Pass ♻ (reference ♻), arm64: Pass ♻ (reference ♻), armhf: Pass ♻ (reference ♻), i386: Pass ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Pass ♻ (reference ♻), riscv64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for sos/4.12.0-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), armhf: Pass, i386: Regression ♻ (reference ♻), ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for tor/0.4.9.11-1: i386: Pass ♻
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for xz-utils/5.8.4-1: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/x/xz-utils.html
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on amd64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on arm64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on armhf - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on i386 - info
- ∙ ∙ 5 days old (needed 5 days)
- Not considered

news

[2026-09-17] Accepted xz-utils 5.4.1-1+deb12u2 (source) into oldstable-security (Otto Kekäläinen)
[2026-09-12] Accepted xz-utils 5.8.4-1 (source) into unstable (Otto Kekäläinen)
[2026-07-21] Accepted xz-utils 5.2.5-2.1~deb11u2 (source) into oldoldstable-security (Chris Lamb)
[2026-07-04] Accepted xz-utils 5.4.1-1+deb12u1 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
[2026-07-04] Accepted xz-utils 5.8.1-1+deb13u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Adrian Bunk)
[2026-04-09] xz-utils 5.8.3-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-04-06] Accepted xz-utils 5.8.3-1 (source) into unstable (Otto Kekäläinen)
[2026-01-20] xz-utils 5.8.2-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-01-16] Accepted xz-utils 5.8.2-2 (source) into unstable (Otto Kekäläinen)
[2025-12-30] xz-utils 5.8.2-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-12-26] Accepted xz-utils 5.8.2-1 (source) into unstable (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
[2025-10-09] xz-utils 5.8.1-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-10-03] Accepted xz-utils 5.8.1-2 (source) into unstable (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
[2025-09-09] xz-utils 5.8.1-1.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-09-04] Accepted xz-utils 5.8.1-1.1 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klose)
[2025-04-09] xz-utils 5.8.1-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-04-05] Accepted xz-utils 5.4.1-1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
[2025-04-05] Accepted xz-utils 5.4.1-1 (source) into stable-security (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
[2025-04-03] Accepted xz-utils 5.8.1-1 (source) into unstable (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
[2025-03-26] Accepted xz-utils 5.8.0-1 (source) into experimental (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
[2025-03-06] xz-utils 5.6.4-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-03-01] Accepted xz-utils 5.6.4-1 (source) into unstable (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
[2024-10-28] xz-utils 5.6.3-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-10-24] Accepted xz-utils 5.6.3-1 (source) into unstable (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
[2024-07-09] xz-utils 5.6.2-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-07-04] Accepted xz-utils 5.6.2-2 (source) into unstable (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
[2024-06-23] xz-utils 5.6.2-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-06-15] Accepted xz-utils 5.6.2-1 (source) into unstable (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior)
[2024-03-29] xz-utils 5.6.1+really5.4.5-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-03-28] Accepted xz-utils 5.6.1+really5.4.5-1 (source) into unstable (Salvatore Bonaccorso)

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bugs [bug history graph]

all: 6
RC: 0
I&N: 2
M&W: 4
F&P: 0
patch: 2

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