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3 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2026-03-11 20:00

5 new commits 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 4959613e23bacb58e8ac32b03aaad04ac4817c59
Merge: 07481e9 7d6a805
Author: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Mar 9 09:20:20 2026 +0000

    Merge branch 'fix-oom-killer' into 'main'
    
    tarfile: add extract_data flag to go() and test cases, and other fixes
    
    See merge request apt-team/python-apt!108

commit 7d6a80507b54c10a380655072bef395033dff254
Author: Simon Johnsson <simzter@outlook.com>
Date:   Fri Sep 5 15:57:30 2025 +0200

    tarfile: add extract_data flag to go() and test cases

commit 5feeb37d4e12bb6f8db62425d6c4db618e008f6a
Author: Simon Johnsson <simzter@outlook.com>
Date:   Fri Sep 5 15:56:05 2025 +0200

    tarfile: fix oom killer

commit f93677ac3cf29dd2dffa4224dd4990551836a88b
Author: Simon Johnsson <simzter@outlook.com>
Date:   Fri Sep 5 15:54:46 2025 +0200

    tarfile: stylistic changes

commit 07481e91ceaf7aa55249a18163a066c939573c24
Author: Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>
Date:   Mon Mar 2 22:58:49 2026 +0100

    Copyright changes

Created: 2026-03-03 Last update: 2026-03-09 11:02

lintian reports 18 warnings normal

Lintian reports 18 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-04-10 Last update: 2025-12-24 06:30

1 low-priority security issue in trixie low

There is 1 open security issue in trixie.

1 issue left for the package maintainer to handle:

  • CVE-2025-6966: (needs triaging) NULL pointer dereference in TagSection.keys() in python-apt on APT-based Linux systems allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a crafted deb822 file with a malformed non-UTF-8 key.

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

Created: 2025-12-05 Last update: 2025-12-18 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-2025-6966: (needs triaging) NULL pointer dereference in TagSection.keys() in python-apt on APT-based Linux systems allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a crafted deb822 file with a malformed non-UTF-8 key.

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

Created: 2025-12-05 Last update: 2025-12-18 23:01

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 4.5.0).

Created: 2020-11-17 Last update: 2025-12-23 20:00