Dante for Debian 13

This repository builds the Dante SOCKS client and server from the package in Debian 14 (Forky) for Debian 13 (Trixie).

The current package is dante 1.4.4+dfsg2-1. It entered Debian unstable on 3 August 2026 and migrated to Debian testing, currently Forky, on 8 August 2026. The package source is rebuilt in Debian 13 so that the resulting binary packages use the libraries and ABI available in Trixie.

This is an Axians build mirror, not an official Debian archive. Upstream's original project introduction remains available in README.

Source provenance

• Debian package: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dante
• Debian packaging repository: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dante
• Dante upstream: https://www.inet.no/dante/
• Axians releases: https://github.com/axians/dante-debian/releases

The Git history, Debian tags, upstream branch, and pristine-tar data were mirrored from Salsa. The current package was imported from Salsa's mrs/next branch after it was accepted into Debian.

The published Forky source and this repository's source were compared after extraction. The upstream and Debian packaging contents are identical. A locally regenerated debian.tar.xz can have a different compressed checksum because archive metadata is regenerated, even when all extracted files are identical.

Branches

• debian/master: Axians build and release branch.
• mrs/next: imported Salsa package revision for 1.4.4+dfsg2-1.
• upstream: repacked upstream source history.
• pristine-tar: data used to reproduce the upstream source archive.

Builds use only the public Axians GitHub mirror. Salsa availability is not required while CI is running.

Build and validation

The GitHub Actions workflow builds in a pinned debian:13-slim container on an Ubuntu 24.04 runner. It performs the following steps:

1. Reconstructs the original source archive with pristine-tar.
2. Exports the package source without repository-only CI and backport files.
3. Installs build dependencies from debian/control.
4. Runs dpkg-buildpackage --build=full --no-sign.
5. Runs Lintian with errors treated as failures.
6. Runs the package's adequate autopkgtest.
7. Uploads binary packages, debug packages, and complete source metadata.

Actions and the Debian container image are pinned to immutable digests or commit hashes. Only the release job receives contents: write, and only for Debian release tags.

Releases

A tag named debian/<package-version> triggers a fresh build and publishes a GitHub Release after all checks pass. The tag version must exactly match the version in debian/changelog.

Each release contains:

• dante-server and dante-client packages;
• runtime and development libraries;
• detached debug-symbol packages;
• .dsc, .changes, and .buildinfo metadata;
• original and Debian source archives;
• the autopkgtest summary; and
• SHA256SUMS for every uploaded build artifact.

Release packages and source metadata are unsigned. They are CI artifacts, not a signed Debian APT repository.

Verify a release

Download all assets from one release into an empty directory, then run:

sha256sum --check SHA256SUMS

Every listed file must report OK before installation.

Install on Debian 13

For the Dante server on an amd64 host:

sudo apt install ./dante-server_*_amd64.deb

For the socksify client, install its matching preload library at the same time:

sudo apt install \
  ./libdsocksd0t64_*_amd64.deb \
  ./dante-client_*_all.deb

APT resolves the remaining dependencies from the configured Debian 13 repositories. Configuration and operation are documented in the installed manual pages, including danted(8), danted.conf(5), and socksify(1).

Creating a release

After updating the package and confirming the branch build succeeds, create an annotated tag whose value matches debian/changelog:

git tag --annotate 'debian/1.4.4+dfsg2-1' \
  --message 'Dante Debian release 1.4.4+dfsg2-1'
git push origin 'refs/tags/debian/1.4.4+dfsg2-1'

The tag build repeats the full package, Lintian, and autopkgtest pipeline before GitHub publishes the release.

License

Dante's license and copyright terms are in LICENSE and debian/copyright.