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Review: testdisk 7.2-1

Package Information

DescriptionPartition scanner and disk recovery tool

TestDisk checks the partition and boot sectors of your disks. It is very useful in forensics, recovering lost partitions. It works with : * DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 * NTFS ( Windows NT/2K/XP ) * Linux Ext2 and Ext3 * BeFS ( BeOS ) * BSD disklabel ( FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD ) * CramFS (Compressed File System) * HFS and HFS+, Hierarchical File System * JFS, IBM's Journaled File System * Linux Raid * Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2) * LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager * Netware NSS * ReiserFS 3.5 and 3.6 * Sun Solaris i386 disklabel * UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...) * XFS, SGI's Journaled File System

The companion file recovery tool PhotoRec is shipped in the photorec package, and its graphical interface in the qphotorec package.

MaintainerDebian Security Tools <team+pkg-security@tracker.debian.org>
Changed ByJuan Manuel Méndez Rey <juan.mendezr@proton.me>
Sponsortille@debian.org
Distributionunstable
Architectureany
VCSgit: https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-security-team/testdisk.git (browse)
Closes#807095
Popcon Installs7076
Binary NEWYes (binary-only upload)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/testdisk
Uploaded22 days ago

New Package Report

.changes
Version7.2-1
Changed-ByJuan Manuel Méndez Rey
Architecturesource amd64
Distributionunstable
DateFri, 05 Jun 2026 17:48:39 +0200
Sourcetestdisk
Changelog
testdisk (7.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Adopt package through the salvaging process (Closes: #1138832).
   * d/control: set Maintainer to the team; add myself to Uploaders.
   * Split into separate binary packages testdisk, photorec and qphotorec
     (Closes: #807095).
   * d/control: point Vcs-* to the pkg-security-team namespace.
.dsc
Sectionadmin
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
Package-Listphotorec deb admin optional arch=any
qphotorec deb admin optional arch=any
testdisk deb admin optional arch=any
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: TestDisk and PhotoRec
Source: https://www.cgsecurity.org/

Files: *
Copyright: 1998-2018 Christophe Grenier <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
License: GPL-2+

Files: src/ntfs_udl.c
       src/ntfs_dir.c
Copyright: 2002-2005 Richard Russon
           2004-2005 Holger Ohmacht
           2005 Anton Altaparmakov
License: GPL-2+

Files: src/file_fh5.c
Copyright: 2007 Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
           2007 Peter Turczak <pspamt@netconsequence.de>
License: GPL-2+

Files: src/file_fds.c
Copyright: 2013 James Holodnak <jamesholodnak@gmail.com>
License: GPL-2+

Files: src/file_shp.c
Copyright: 2023 Grzegorz Szymaszek <gszymaszek@short.pl>
License: GPL-2+

Files: src/crc.c
Copyright: 2007 Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
           1986 Gary S. Brown for the crc32 table
License: GPL-2+

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2004-2019 Jean-Michel Kelbert <kelbert@debian.org>
License: GPL-2+

License: GPL-2+
 This software 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 package 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.
 .
 On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
 Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.

Review Information

accepted — allocated to siretart 20 days ago, started 20 days ago, completed 20 days ago.

Final Comment

Accepted with findings, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1146232

Public Notes

20 days ago ● public

Missed Author Check

Command: dnq author-check -prepare
Exit code: 0

Author check: scanned 777 files.

NOT IN debian/copyright (13):

  92,93,94,96,97,98,2000,2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc
    src/memmem.h:6

  Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@gmail.com>
    aclocal.m4:27

  Dmitry Brant <me@dmitrybrant.com>
    src/file_bpg.c:6

  Free Software Foundation
    INSTALL:4
    Makefile.in:4
    aclocal.m4:1004
    aclocal.m4:1047
    aclocal.m4:1081
    ... and 31 more files

  Hans Reiser
    src/rfs.h:6

  Ingo Molnar, Gadi Oxman
    src/md.h:24

  Klaus Halfmann <klaus.halfmann@feri.de>
    src/hfsp_struct.h:7

  Lode Leroy
    src/ntfs_dir.c:7
    src/ntfs_utl.c:7

  Michael Cohen <scudette@users.sourceforge.net>, part of pyflag
    src/suspend.c:8

  Nick Schrader <nick.schrader@iserv-gis.de>
    src/file_mkv.c:6

  Simson Garfinkel
    src/dfxml.c:5
    src/dfxml.h:5

  Tomasz Kojm <tkojm@clamav.net>
    src/pe.h:3

  X Consortium
    config/install-sh:10

PROBABLE FALSE POSITIVES (2) — a name fragment already appears in debian/copyright:

  Christophe GISQUET <christophe.gisquet@free.fr>  (might be "Christophe Grenier <grenier@cgsecurity.org>", "Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>")
    src/file_xm.c:6
    src/file_zip.c:6

  Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>  (might be "James Holodnak <jamesholodnak@gmail.com>")
    aclocal.m4:26

Result: ATTENTION REQUIRED — 13 authors not in debian/copyright

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