rear - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: rear (main)
version: 2.9+dfsg-1
maintainer: Karsten Schöke (DMD) (DM)
arch: all amd64 i386 ia64 ppc64el
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: 2.6+dfsg-1
oldstable: 2.7+dfsg-1
stable: 2.7+dfsg-1.2
testing: 2.9+dfsg-1
unstable: 2.9+dfsg-1

versioned links

2.6+dfsg-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.7+dfsg-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.7+dfsg-1.2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.9+dfsg-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

rear (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
rear-doc

action needed

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 0ddf9f7b4cdc004f723ace6f174734822dfe3a1f
Author: Karsten Schöke <karsten.schoeke@geobasis-bb.de>
Date:   Mon Nov 17 07:07:45 2025 +0100

    d/changelog: fix lintian error

Created: 2025-11-21 Last update: 2025-11-21 13:31

lintian reports 2 warnings normal

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

Created: 2025-10-25 Last update: 2025-10-25 23:01

1 low-priority security issue in bookworm low

There is 1 open security issue in bookworm.

1 issue left for the package maintainer to handle:

CVE-2024-23301: (needs triaging) Relax-and-Recover (aka ReaR) through 2.7 creates a world-readable initrd when using GRUB_RESCUE=y. This allows local attackers to gain access to system secrets otherwise only readable by root.

You can find information about how to handle this issue in the security team's documentation.

Created: 2024-01-13 Last update: 2025-10-30 06:30

news

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[2025-10-30] rear 2.9+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-10-25] Accepted rear 2.9+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Karsten Schöke) (signed by: Alexandre Detiste)
[2025-03-16] rear 2.7+dfsg-1.2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-03-11] Accepted rear 2.7+dfsg-1.2 (source) into unstable (Chris Hofstaedtler) (signed by: Christian Hofstaedtler)
[2025-02-13] rear REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-02-03] Accepted rear 2.4+dfsg-1+deb10u1 (source all amd64) into oldoldstable (Abhijith PA)
[2023-12-16] rear 2.7+dfsg-1.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-12-10] Accepted rear 2.7+dfsg-1.1 (source) into unstable (Chris Hofstaedtler) (signed by: Christian Hofstaedtler)
[2023-01-17] rear 2.7+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2023-01-12] Accepted rear 2.7+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Frédéric Bonnard)
[2020-08-30] rear 2.6+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-08-24] Accepted rear 2.6+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Frédéric Bonnard)
[2020-03-08] rear 2.5+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-08-12] Accepted rear 2.5+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Frédéric Bonnard)
[2019-01-17] rear 2.4+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-01-11] Accepted rear 2.4+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Frédéric Bonnard)
[2018-02-26] rear 2.3+dfsg-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-02-21] Accepted rear 2.3+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Frédéric Bonnard)
[2017-08-27] rear 2.2+dfsg-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-08-22] Accepted rear 2.2+dfsg-2 (source) into unstable (Frédéric Bonnard) (signed by: Bonnard Frédéric)
[2017-08-21] Accepted rear 2.2+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Frédéric Bonnard) (signed by: Bonnard Frédéric)
[2017-06-20] rear 2.00+dfsg-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-01-13] Accepted rear 2.00+dfsg-2 (source) into unstable (Frédéric Bonnard) (signed by: Gianfranco Costamagna)
[2017-01-12] Accepted rear 2.00+dfsg-1 (source) into unstable (Frédéric Bonnard) (signed by: Gianfranco Costamagna)
[2016-12-23] Accepted rear 1.19+dfsg-1 (source all amd64) into unstable, unstable (Frederic Bonnard) (signed by: Gianfranco Costamagna)

bugs [bug history graph]

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

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