No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
linecache2 has 1.5M monthly downloads and 1 GitHub stars. Version 0.0.1, first published in 2015.
Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2016.
It is used by 7 tracked packages, including maat2, privacysherlock and certbot-pinned.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
2
Popularity
11
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4141 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,535,641
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,535,641
Stars
1
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
•
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
50,114
Month daily avg
51,188
Momentum
-2.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
•
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
Python Software Foundation License
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
3819 days ago
Total releases
2
Releases/year
0.2
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
•
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
16
Monthly downloads
1,535,641
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
27
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
320.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
36.5K
Windows
800
macOS
303
Python Versions
3.12
65.7%
22.9K
3.10
20.5%
7.1K
3.11
6.3%
2.2K
3.7
4.6%
1.6K
2.7
2.8%
977
Top Countries
1.
US
27.9K
US
2.
DE
2.4K
DE
3.
CA
1.3K
CA
4.
HK
1.1K
HK
5.
SG
993
SG
6.
AU
876
AU
7.
NL
680
NL
8.
GB
611
GB
9.
IE
488
IE
10.
CN
325
CN
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Package Information
License
Python Software Foundation License
First Release
January 13, 2015
Last Release
10 years ago
Last Commit
11 years ago
Latest Version
0.0.1
Total Releases
2
Contributors
16
Open PRs
1
Archived
Yes
Author
Testing-cabal
Python Versions
2
2.6
2.7
3
3.2
3.3
3.4
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh