GobjectIntrospection

Main Inclusion Report for gobject-introspection

Requirements

  1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gobject-introspection; available for all supported architectures

  2. Rationale:

    • Build dependency of indicator-applet

  3. Security:

    • CVE entries: None

    • Secunia history: None

    • No binaries running as root or suid/sgid? No daemons.
    • No network activity.
    • It parses arbitrary gobject/glib/GTK source code for generating documentation, API checkers, and similar; as such it is a development/build-time tool and not exposed to untrusted network data for exploits.
    • No source code review performed

  4. Quality assurance:

    • In what situations does the package not work out of the box without configuration? None, it's a library
    • No debconf questions.

    • Debian bugs: None

    • Maintenance in Debian is vigorous

    • Upstream is vigorous

    • Upstream bug tracker: no showstoppers

    • Does not deal with special hardware
    • Is there a test suite in the upstream source or packaging ? Yes. Is it enabled to run in the build ? No.
  5. Does not provide any GUI, thus i18n/desktop files etc. do not apply.

  6. Standards compliance:

  7. Dependencies: All in main.

  8. Maintenance:

    • How much maintenance is this package likely to need ? Very little from Debian's, expectedly none from Ubuntu.
    • Who is responsible for monitoring the quality of this package and fixing its bugs ? Sebastien Droege maintains the package in Debian and is very active in the Ubuntu community as well.

  9. Background information:

    • The general purpose and context of the package is clear from the package's debian/control file.
    • What do upstream call this software ? gobject introspection Has it had different names in the past ? No.

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/330429

The author of this report should put their name here; reviewers will add comments etc. too

MainInclusionReport/GobjectIntrospection (last edited 2009-02-17 13:08:41 by p579DE019)