austin-python 2.6.0-1

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Description	Python wrapper for Austin, the CPython frame stack sampler Austin is a Python frame stack sampler for CPython written in pure C. It samples the stack traces of a Python application so that they can be visualised and analysed. As such, it serves the basis for building powerful profilers for Python. This is a Python wrapper around Austin that provides convenience classes to quickly develop your statistical profiling tools.
Maintainer	Debian Python Team <team+python@tracker.debian.org>
Changed By	Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Sponsor	cjwatson@debian.org
Distribution	unstable
Architecture	all
VCS	git: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/austin-python.git (browse)
Closes	#1153476
Blocked Bugs	#1140913 (serious)
Tracker	https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/austin-python
Uploaded	3 hours ago

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Architecture	all source
Distribution	unstable
Date	Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:50:03 +0000
Source	austin-python
Version	2.6.0-1
Changed-By	Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

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austin-python (2.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Initial release (closes: #1153476).

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Section	python
Priority	optional
Component	main
Package-List	python3-austin deb python optional arch=all

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Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: austin-python
Upstream-Contact: Gabriele N. Tornetta <phoenix1987@gmail.com>
Source: https://github.com/P403n1x87/austin-python

Files: *
Copyright: 2018-2026 Gabriele N. Tornetta <phoenix1987@gmail.com>
License: GPL-3.0+

Files: austin/format/pprof/profile.proto
Copyright: 2016 Google Inc.
License: Apache-2.0

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2026 Colin Watson
License: GPL-3.0+

Files: debian/generate-manpages
Copyright: 2026 Colin Watson
License: Expat

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DFSG Assistant LLM REVIEW 0 blocker, 0 important, 0 minor

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Summary

Licensing is DFSG-compliant and debian/copyright is accurate: Yes
Packaging is of good quality: Yes
Issues: 0 blocker, 0 important, 0 minor
debian/watch: version 5
debian/copyright: machine-readable
Scan before the review: 7 found

Licensing

Every upstream file is under a free licence, and debian/copyright (DEP-5, correct Format URL) matches the tree: Files: * GPL-3.0+ for Gabriele N. Tornetta's code, which is what the file headers ("version 3 ... or any later version"), pyproject.toml's license = "GPL-3.0-or-later" and LICENSE.md say; austin/format/pprof/profile.proto is correctly split out as 2016 Google Inc. / Apache-2.0, with the licence text and the /usr/share/common-licenses pointer; debian/* is Colin Watson / GPL-3.0+, with debian/generate-manpages overridden to Expat and its full text given. GPL-3+ and Apache-2.0 are compatible. The binary files the scan listed are all test fixtures: the .mojo/.austin files are Austin sample data and austin.pprof is regenerated from austin.out by the package's own test, so no built file lacks its source.

Packaging

Clean, conventional pybuild/hatchling packaging: debhelper-compat 13 with dh-sequence-python3, Build-Depends carrying the test-only dependencies as <!nocheck>, Standards-Version 4.7.4 against Policy 4.7.4.1, Vcs-*/Homepage/upstream metadata present, one well-formed DEP-3 patch that is forwarded upstream, nine man pages generated by help2man at build time from the installed console scripts (all nine entry points covered), and a deliberate, commented deselection of the six tests that need the austin binary. The runtime dependencies on toml (and psutil, which upstream declares) reach Depends through dh_python3's dependency guessing from Requires-Dist, so no manual Depends is missing. Changelog, distribution, autopkgtest declaration and package split are all in order.

Issues

None.

Verified ◂

Read all of debian/ (control, rules, changelog, copyright, clean, gbp.conf, generate-manpages, python3-austin.manpages, REUSE.toml, salsa-ci.yml, source/format, patches/series and patches/mojodbg-argparse.patch, upstream/metadata); .pc/ and debian/cargo-checksum.json left out.
Grepped all of the tree including git-ignored files (gitignore: false) for Copyright/(C)/©/SPDX-License-Identifier/Licensed under/Permission is hereby granted/GNU ... Public/Apache/Mozilla/public domain/All rights reserved/BSD phrasing/CC-*; the only holders anywhere are Gabriele N. Tornetta (GPL-3+ headers throughout austin/ and test/), Colin Watson (debian/) and Google Inc. (profile.proto), plus the FSF line inside the GPL text.
The prescan's one 'missing' holder is the licence text itself: LICENSE.md:4 and COPYING:4 read Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. inside the verbatim GPL-3 (LICENSE.md is a markdown rendering of it, COPYING the plain text). It is not a copyright claim on any project file, so Files: */Tornetta is correct.
austin/format/pprof/profile.proto:1-3 has Copyright 2016 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved. and Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0; it has its own stanza, and the file carries both the Apache-2.0 notice and the pointer to /usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0. Apache-2.0 and GPL-3+ can be combined in one binary.
austin/format/pprof/profile.py is Tornetta's own code (docstring: "Minimal pprof protobuf messages ... a dependency-free implementation of the subset of the messages in profile.proto"), GPL-3+; it is not generated from profile.proto, so no missing generator input.
Files without their own licence header (austin/events.py, austin/format/init.py, austin/format/mojo.py, austin/format/collapsed_stack.py, test/conftest.py, test/test_base.py, test/test_query.py, test/test_query_cli.py, test/test_query_e2e.py, test/test_semver.py, test/test_simple.py, test/test_threads.py, test/format/, test/stats/, test/tools/*, test/data/column.py, the top-level dotfiles/README/templates, PKG-INFO) are covered by Files: * GPL-3.0+, consistent with the project's LICENSE.md and pyproject.toml license = "GPL-3.0-or-later".
Scan's binary files, all test fixtures read by the package's own code and all under Files: * GPL-3.0+: test/data/austinp.mojo, test/data/austinp.resolved.mojo, test/data/column.mojo, test/data/mp.mojo, test/data/repeat.mojo, test/data/test.mojo are Austin MOJO sample streams parsed by austin/format/mojo.py (MojoStreamReader); test/data/austin.pprof is a serialized pprof profile that test/format/test_pprof.py:29-46 regenerates byte-for-byte from test/data/austin.out with the package's PProf class, so its source is in the tree. None is built code whose source is missing.
Runtime dependencies: pyproject.toml's Requires-Dist: toml~=0.10 / psutil>=5.7.0 are translated into Depends by dh_python3's dependency guessing (guess_deps defaults on in /usr/share/dh-python/dhpython/options.py:40; /usr/share/dh-python/dhpython/pydist.py:281-303 looks the names up and /usr/share/dh-python/dist/cpython3_fallback maps toml to python3-toml and psutil to python3-psutil), so the missing explicit Depends is not a bug; toml really is needed (austin/config.py:29, imported from austin/base.py:41).
Tests and test dependencies: python3-pytest, python3-pytest-asyncio, python3-toml, python3-psutil are Build-Depends <!nocheck>, which is where pybuild runs the suite; debian/rules:9-16 deselects exactly the six tests that start the austin binary, test/test_query_e2e.py skips when austin is absent or Python < 3.14, and test/tools/test_resolve.py::test_resolve_snapshot is xfail.
Man pages: the nine pages in debian/python3-austin.manpages correspond one-to-one to pyproject.toml's [project.scripts], are generated in execute_before_dh_installman by debian/generate-manpages (help2man against the console scripts installed into debian/python3-austin/usr/bin by dh_auto_install), which runs after dh_auto_install; none of the entry-point modules imports toml or psutil, so the hook also works in a nocheck build, and debian/clean removes debian/tmp-manpages/ afterwards.
Patch debian/patches/mojodbg-argparse.patch has full DEP-3 headers (From, Date, Subject, Forwarded to upstream PR 64, Last-Update) and fixes a real argparse crash ("-e", "echo" to "-e", "--echo"); debian/patches/series lists it.
debian/copyright is machine-readable with the exact format URL; stanza order is right, so the later Files: austin/format/pprof/profile.proto, Files: debian/* and Files: debian/generate-manpages paragraphs correctly override Files: * (the last one has its own SPDX header, SPDX-License-Identifier: Expat, and its full text is in the file).
debian/REUSE.toml declares debian/* as 2026 Colin Watson / GPL-3.0-or-later, which agrees with the Files: debian/* stanza; it is not installed in any binary package.
Standards-Version 4.7.4 matches the reviewing system's Policy 4.7.4.1 (policy tool), so it is current. Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-pybuild is a known test suite (lintian's known-testsuites). Recommends: austin is not dangling: austin 3.7.0-9 is in the archive (apt-cache), built for python3 (<< 3.14~), which matches the comment in debian/rules about austin not yet working with current Python.
debian/changelog: 2.6.0-1, unstable, urgency medium, initial release closing the ITP; source format 3.0 (quilt); no maintainer scripts to check.
uscan found the packaged version as the newest upstream release (upstream 2.6.0, packaged 2.6.0).
Every pointer of debian/copyright to /usr/share/common-licenses names a file that is there (Apache-2.0, GPL-3).

Not confirmed ◂

CODE-OF-CONDUCT.md is the Contributor Covenant v1.4 text (line 70: adapted from the [Contributor Covenant][homepage], version 1.4); it states no licence and no holder, and I understand that text to be CC-BY-4.0, in which case Files: * (GPL-3.0+, Tornetta) does not describe it accurately even though the required attribution is present in the file. I could not check the upstream licence offline, and the file is not installed in python3-austin, so I did not report it as an issue.
No build or test run was possible here: the statements about build-time man page generation, about dh_python3 turning Requires-Dist into Depends, and about the tests passing come from reading debian/rules and the dh-python code under /usr/share/dh-python, not from executing a build.

Proposed changes ◂

None.

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