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rvtrans 0.3.9-1

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Descriptionx86-64 userspace binary translator

RVTrans is a Kylin project derived from Box64. It runs Linux x86-64 applications using an interpreter and, where available, a dynamic recompiler. It forwards supported library calls to native system libraries.

This package provides the translator and its application configuration. Applications may require additional x86-64 libraries, which are not bundled.

MaintainerKylin Team <team+kylin@tracker.debian.org>
Changed Byzhangpan <zhangpan@kylinos.cn>
Sponsortille@debian.org
Distributionunstable
Architectureamd64 arm64 loong64 riscv64
VCSgit: https://gitee.com/openkylin/rvtrans.git (browse)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rvtrans
Uploaded2 hours ago

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Changed-Byzhangpan <zhangpan@kylinos.cn>
Architecturesource amd64
Distributionunstable
DateFri, 23 Oct 2026 18:48:39 +0800
Sourcervtrans
Version0.3.9-1
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rvtrans (0.3.9-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Initial release.
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Package-Listrvtrans deb utils optional arch=amd64,arm64,loong64,riscv64
Sectionutils
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
debian/copyright◂
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Source: https://gitee.com/openkylin/rvtrans
Upstream-Name: rvtrans
Upstream-Contact: lizhuoheng@kylinos.cn
Comment: rvtrans is derived from Box64.
 The original upstream project is https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64

Files: *
Copyright: 2020, ptitSeb
           2018-2022, Sebastien Chevalier
           The Box64 contributors
           2024-2026, KylinSoft Co., Ltd.
License: Expat
Comment: The 2020 notice is retained from the top-level LICENSE; the
 2018-2022 notices were recorded in the original Debian packaging.
 KylinSoft's copyright covers the rvtrans modifications only.

Files: CMakeLists.txt
       README.md
       README_CN.md
       src/tools/env.c
Copyright: 2020, ptitSeb
           The Box64 contributors
           2026, KylinSoft Co., Ltd.
License: Expat
Comment: Project build, documentation and configuration changes.

Files: src/cache/my_context.c
       src/cache/my_context.h
Copyright: 2024, KylinSoft Co., Ltd.
License: Expat

Files: src/custommem.c
       src/elfs/elfloader.c
       src/include/custommem.h
       src/librarian/library.c
       src/librarian/library_inner.h
       src/librarian/library_private.h
       src/main.c
Copyright: 2020, ptitSeb
           The Box64 contributors
           2025, KylinSoft Co., Ltd.
License: Expat
Comment: Local memory-protection, symbol lookup and relocation changes.
 The upstream imports are not themselves treated as KylinSoft contributions.

Files: src/elfs/mph_reader.c
       src/elfs/mph_reader.h
Copyright: 2025, KylinSoft Co., Ltd.
License: Expat

Files: debian/*
Copyright: Ryan Fortner <ryankfortner@gmail.com>
           Sebastien Chevalier <ptitseb@box86.org>
           2026, KylinSoft Co., Ltd.
License: GPL-3+ and Expat
Comment: The original Box64 packaging is covered by the upstream Expat
 license. The rvtrans packaging changes made by KylinSoft Co., Ltd. are
 licensed under GPL-3-or-later.

Files: external/musl/*
Copyright: 2005-2020, Rich Felker and contributors
License: Expat
Comment: Imported musl sources, including files without individual notices.
 The musl COPYRIGHT notice is available in Wine's official source mirror:
 https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/blob/master/libs/musl/COPYRIGHT

Files: external/musl/__cos.c
       external/musl/__rem_pio2.c
       external/musl/__rem_pio2_large.c
       external/musl/__sin.c
       external/musl/cos.c
       external/musl/expm1.c
       external/musl/log1p.c
       external/musl/sin.c
       external/musl/sincos.c
Copyright: 1993, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
License: SunPro

Files: external/musl/exp2.c
       external/musl/exp_data.c
       external/musl/exp_data.h
       external/musl/log2.c
       external/musl/log2_data.c
       external/musl/log2_data.h
Copyright: 2018, Arm Limited
License: Expat

Files: src/include/khash.h
       wrapperhelper/src/khash.h
Copyright: 2008, 2009, 2011, Attractive Chaos <attractor@live.co.uk>
License: Expat

Files: src/include/json.h
Copyright: The json.h authors
License: Unlicense
Comment: The authors have dedicated this work to the public domain.
 Upstream: https://github.com/sheredom/json.h

Files: src/emu/x64primop.c
       src/emu/x64primop.h
Copyright: 1996-1999, SciTech Software, Inc.
           David Mosberger-Tang
           1999, Egbert Eich
           2007-2017, SUSE LINUX GmbH (author: Steffen Winterfeldt)
           The Box64 contributors
License: HPND-sell-variant
Comment: Based on libx86emu; the original permission notice is retained
 in src/emu/x64primop.c. The corresponding upstream header is at
 https://github.com/wfeldt/libx86emu/blob/master/include/prim_ops.h

Files: src/wrapped/SDL_dynapi_procs.h
Copyright: 1997-2021, Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
License: Zlib

Files: src/wrapped/wrappedd3dadapter9_gen.h
       src/wrapped/wrappedd3dadapter9_vtable.h
Copyright: 2011, Joakim Sindholt <opensource@zhasha.com>
           The Box64 contributors
License: MIT-Mesa
Comment: Adapted from Mesa's D3D9 and d3dadapter headers.

Files: wrapperhelper/include-override/aarch64/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
       wrapperhelper/include-override/x86/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
       wrapperhelper/include-override/x86_64/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h
       wrapperhelper/include-override/common/bits/types.h
Copyright: 2002-2024, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License: LGPL-2.1+

Files: wrapperhelper/include-override/common/bits/floatn.h
       wrapperhelper/include-override/common/bits/stdint-intn.h
       wrapperhelper/include-override/common/bits/stdint-uintn.h
Copyright: 2017-2024, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License: LGPL-2.1+

Files: wrapperhelper/include-override/common/bits/stdint-least.h
Copyright: 2024, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License: LGPL-2.1+

Files: wrapperhelper/include-override/common/stdint.h
Copyright: 1997-2024, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License: LGPL-2.1+
Comment: These GNU C Library headers are input data for wrapperhelper;
 they are not installed as part of the rvtrans executable.

Files: src/os/emit_signal_wine.c
       wine/wow64/wowbox64.c
Copyright: 2022-2025, André Zwing
           2023, Alexandre Julliard
License: Expat
Comment: These author notices are preserved from the Box64 source tree.
 The files carry no separate license notice and use the project's Expat
 license.

Files: src/emu/x86zydis.h
Copyright: 2014-2024, Florian Bernd
           2014-2024, Joel Höner
           The Box64 contributors
License: Expat
Comment: Contains adapted Zydis and Zycore declarations and macros.
 Zydis: https://github.com/zyantific/zydis/blob/v4.1.1/LICENSE
 Zycore: https://github.com/zyantific/zycore-c/blob/master/LICENSE

Files: src/dynarec/rv64/rv64_printer.c
Copyright: 2022, RISC-V International
           The Box64 contributors
License: Expat and BSD-3-clause
Comment: The generated opcode decoding portions identify their source as
 https://github.com/ksco/riscv-opcodes/tree/box64_printer
 That branch's LICENSE (blob 38820c42536718ae2e256a1dda8f7b6ae5728fa3)
 grants BSD-3-clause terms. The surrounding Box64 code uses Expat terms.

License: Expat
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
 in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
 to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
 copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
 furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 .
 The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
 copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
 IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
 FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
 AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
 LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
 OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
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License: SunPro
 Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
 software is freely granted, provided that this notice
 is preserved.

License: HPND-sell-variant
 Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and
 its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
 provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
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 in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software
 without specific, written prior permission.  The authors makes no
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 It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
 .
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 CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF
 USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR
 OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
 PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

License: MIT-Mesa
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
 copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
 to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
 on the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sub
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 DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR
 OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE
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License: Zlib
 This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied
 warranty.  In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages
 arising from the use of this software.
 .
 Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose,
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    claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software
    in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be
    appreciated but is not required.
 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
    misrepresented as being the original software.
 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

License: Unlicense
 This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
 .
 Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
 distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled
 binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any
 means.
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 In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors
 of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the
 software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit
 of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and
 successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of
 relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this
 software under copyright law.
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 EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
 MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
 IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
 OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
 ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
 OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 .
 For more information, please refer to <http://unlicense.org/>.

License: BSD-3-clause
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors
    may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
    specific prior written permission.
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 DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
 SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
 CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
 OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
 OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

License: GPL-3+
 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 3 of the License, or
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License: LGPL-2.1+
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DFSG Assistant LLM REVIEW 0 blocker, 0 important, 0 minor

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DFSG NEW review for rvtrans version 0.3.9-1

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: 2 found

Licensing

debian/copyright is machine-readable (DEP-5). Files: * correctly assigns Expat (MIT) matching the top-level LICENSE, with dedicated stanzas for each vendored/derived group: musl (Expat plus SunPro for the Sun files and Expat for the Arm ones), khash (Expat), json.h (Unlicense), x64primop.c/h (HPND-sell-variant), SDL_dynapi_procs.h (zlib), wrappedd3dadapter9 (MIT-Mesa), wrapperhelper glibc headers (LGPL-2.1+), x86zydis.h (Expat), and rv64_printer.c (Expat and BSD-3-clause). Every licence short name used has a stand-alone paragraph with full text. The prescan's two 'commercial or non-commercial' hits are the Unlicense public-domain text, which affirmatively permits commercial use and is DFSG-free. The dfsg-author-check across 2120 files found every copyright holder is named in debian/copyright. No non-free terms, unlicensed files, or built blobs. All licences are DFSG-compliant and mutually compatible in one binary.

Packaging

Packaging is of good quality. Standards-Version 4.7.4 is current (Policy 4.7.4.1), debhelper-compat 14 is used with a straightforward dh + cmake rules file, hardening=+bindnow is enabled, and the smoke-test hook correctly checks DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS nocheck (also handled by dh at compat 14). Architecture (amd64 arm64 loong64 riscv64), Build-Depends (debhelper, cmake, python3 — python3 is required by CMake), binary Depends, Install/conffile handling (rvtrans binary and /etc rvtransrc), autopkgtest, changelog, and Vcs-* fields are all sound. No policy violations or upgrade concerns found.

Issues

None.

Verified

  • Prescan: src/include/json.h:11 and debian/copyright:258 'commercial or non-commercial' wording is from the vendored json.h Unlicense text; the Unlicense explicitly permits commercial and non-commercial use, so it is not a restriction and is DFSG-free.
  • Prescan: dfsg-author-check declared every one of the 23 declared copyright holders found across all 2120 files is named in debian/copyright.
  • debian/copyright is DEP-5 machine-readable, begins with the canonical Format: URL, has a Files: * Expat catch-all, per-file stanzas for every vendored/derived group, and complete stand-alone License: paragraphs for Expat, SunPro, HPND-sell-variant, MIT-Mesa, Zlib, Unlicense, BSD-3-clause, GPL-3+ and LGPL-2.1+.
  • Top-level LICENSE is the standard MIT/Expat text; CMakeLists and individual modified files carry SPDX MIT markers consistent with Files: * Expat.
  • musl files: Sun-provenance files carry the SunPro permission text (checked in __cos.c, __rem_pio2.c, sin.c, etc.); Arm files exp2/log2/exp_data/log2_data carry 'Copyright (c) 2018, Arm Limited' + 'SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT', matching the Expat stanza; the remaining musl files are Expat under the external/musl/* stanza.
  • x64primop.c carries the libx86emu Realmode HPND notice (SciTech/David Mosberger-Tang/Egbert Eich/SUSE Steffen Winterfeldt) matching the HPND-sell-variant stanza.
  • SDL_dynapi_procs.h carries the Sam Lantinga zlib notice; wrappedd3dadapter9 headers carry the Joakim Sindholt MIT/Mesa notice; both match their stanzas.
  • wrapperhelper/include-override glibc headers (stdint.h, bits/*.h, stdc-predef.h, pthreadtypes-arch.h) carry LGPL headers, matching the LGPL-2.1+ stanzas; the wrapperhelper program itself is MIT as covered by Files: *.
  • Packaging: compat 14; rules uses cmake with the RV64/ARM_dynarec flag logic, NOGIT=ON to avoid requiring git_head.h, and debian/clean removes the generated src/git_head.h and debian/build; override_dh_auto_install is a no-op because upstream's install rule skips the binary on x86 hosts and the binary is installed via rvtrans.install.
  • Packaging: rvtrans.install installs debian/build/rvtrans to usr/bin and system/rvtrans.rvtransrc to /etc (conffile); manpage, docs, tests/control (superficial smoke test), changelog and upstream/metadata are all present and correct.
  • uscan found the packaged version as the newest upstream release (upstream 0.3.9, packaged 0.3.9).
  • Every pointer of debian/copyright to /usr/share/common-licenses names a file that is there (GPL-3, LGPL-2.1).

Not confirmed

  • Wine-derived files under wine/ are covered by Files: * Expat per the copyright comment; they are build-time helpers not shipped in the binary, so no licence conflict arises, but I did not confirm the exact upstream provenance/licence header of each def/crt/wrt file.

Proposed changes

None.

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