Review: testdisk 7.2-1
Package Information
| Description | Partition 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. |
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| Maintainer | Debian Security Tools <team+pkg-security@tracker.debian.org> |
| Changed By | Juan Manuel Méndez Rey <juan.mendezr@proton.me> |
| Sponsor | tille@debian.org |
| Distribution | unstable |
| Architecture | any |
| VCS | git: https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-security-team/testdisk.git (browse) |
| Closes | #807095 |
| Popcon Installs | 7076 |
| Binary NEW | Yes (binary-only upload) |
| Tracker | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/testdisk |
| Uploaded | 22 days ago |
New Package Report
.changes
| Version | 7.2-1 |
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| Changed-By | Juan Manuel Méndez Rey |
| Architecture | source amd64 |
| Distribution | unstable |
| Date | Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:48:39 +0200 |
| Source | testdisk |
Changelog
testdisk (7.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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* 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
| Section | admin |
|---|---|
| Priority | optional |
| Component | main |
| Package-List | photorec 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
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