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bbdb

A contact management utility for use with Emacs

About bbdb

A contact management utility for use with Emacs

This project links 4 native package records across 4 recorded operating-system releases. Compare the retained versions and architectures below, then open the package for your own release.

These are catalog observations, not a guarantee of installation, compatibility, or upstream support.

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Project pictures and package coverage

Debian 12 (Bookworm): 1 package records; Debian 13 (Trixie): 1 package records; Fedora 43: 1 package records; Fedora 44: 1 package records. Catalog coverage diagram, not an application screenshot.bbdb: recorded package coverageDebian 12 (Bookworm)1 recordsDebian 13 (Trixie)1 recordsFedora 431 recordsFedora 441 records
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Project identity

Project
bbdb
Publisher
Not authoritatively mapped
Native package records
4
Operating systems
debian-12, debian-13, fedora-43, fedora-44
License expression
GPL-3.0-or-later AND GFDL-1.3-or-later
Metadata completeness
100/100 (not a software quality rating)
Homepage
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Source repository
Not reported

Source-reported description

The fullest retained description is shown with its source. Distribution packaging descriptions may include downstream details.

BBDB is the Insidious Big Brother Database contact manager for GNU Emacs. It provides an address book for email and snail mail addresses, phone numbers and the like. It can be linked with various Emacs mail clients (Message and Mail mode, Rmail, Gnus, MH-E, and VM). BBDB is fully customizable.

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Packages by operating system

Compare recorded versions, then open a package for dependency, file, checksum, and repository evidence. Version strings are distribution-specific, not a ranking of newer software.

Debian 12 (Bookworm)

  1. bbdb

    Debian 12 (Bookworm) / mail

    3.0.1

    The Insidious Big Brother Database (email rolodex) for Emacs

    allbookworm

Debian 13 (Trixie)

  1. bbdb

    Debian 13 (Trixie) / mail

    3.0.3

    The Insidious Big Brother Database (email rolodex) for Emacs

    alltrixie

Fedora 43

  1. emacs-bbdb

    Fedora 43 / Unspecified / source emacs-bbdb

    1:3.2.2b-11.20220729git1b121e9.fc43

    A contact management utility for use with Emacs

    noarch43

Fedora 44

  1. emacs-bbdb

    Fedora 44 / Unspecified / source emacs-bbdb

    1:3.2.2b-12.20220729git1b121e9.fc44

    A contact management utility for use with Emacs

    noarch44

Project resources and further reading

Mapping provenance

Only source-backed identity signals create public cross-OS links. A reviewer can later approve or dispute an inferred relationship without rewriting native package history.

No field-level source record is published yet.

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