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Review: htop 3.5.1-1

Package Information

Descriptioninteractive processes viewer

Htop is an ncursed-based process viewer similar to top, but it allows one to scroll the list vertically and horizontally to see all processes and their full command lines.

Tasks related to processes (killing, renicing) can be done without entering their PIDs.

MaintainerDaniel Lange <DLange@debian.org>
Changed ByDaniel Lange <DLange@debian.org>
SponsorDLange@debian.org
Distributionexperimental
Architectureany
VCSgit: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/htop.git (browse)
Popcon Installs105247
Binary NEWYes (binary-only upload)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/htop
Uploaded3 months, 9 days ago

New Package Report

.changes
Changed-ByDaniel Lange
Architecturesource amd64
Distributionexperimental
DateTue, 28 Apr 2026 18:35:00 +0200
Sourcehtop
Version3.5.1-1
Changelog
htop (3.5.1-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release
   * Add pcp-htop binary package
   * Drop hurd support
   * Drop kFreeBSD support
.dsc
Package-Listhtop deb utils optional arch=any
pcp-htop deb utils optional arch=any
Sectionutils
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: htop
Upstream-Contact: htop dev team <htop@groups.io>
Source: https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/releases

Files: *
License: GPL-2+
Copyright: 2004-2019 Hisham Muhammad
           2020-2026 htop dev team

Files: debian/*
License: GPL-2+
Copyright: 2016-2026 Daniel Lange
           2018-2021 Graham Inggs
           2008-2016 Eugene V. Lyubimkin
           2004-2008 Bartosz Fenski

License: GPL-2+
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 .
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
 with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 .
 On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public
 License version 2 can be found in the file
 `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.

Review Information

accepted — allocated to mechtilde 3 months, 9 days ago, started 3 months, 9 days ago, completed 3 months, 9 days ago.

Final Comment

Hi,

please add the mising authors with the next upload.

Thanks

Public Notes

3 months, 9 days ago ● public

Missed Author Check

Command: dnq author-check
Exit code: 0

Using active review (from current.json): htop
Author check: htop 3.5.1-1

Scanned 348 files.
Authors declared in debian/copyright: 6

NOT IN debian/copyright (4):

  Guido U. Draheim <guidod@gmx.de>
    m4/ax_check_compile_flag.m4:29

  Jens Axboe <jens@axboe.dk>
    linux/IOPriority.h:10

  Maarten Bosmans <mkbosmans@gmail.com>
    m4/ax_check_compile_flag.m4:30

  Thorsten Lockert <tholo@sigmasoft.com>
    openbsd/OpenBSDMachine.c:162

Result: ATTENTION REQUIRED — 4 authors not in debian/copyright

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