Main Inclusion Report for libgettext-ruby

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libg/libgettext-ruby; available for all supported architectures

2. Rationale:

   • Enables Ruby applications to i18n via the standard gettext system
   • Dependency of kubuntu-firefox-installer (pending MIR)

3. Security:

   • No known CVE entries
   • No known Secunia history
   • No rooted binaries or daemons
   • No network activity whatsoever
   • Does not directly (not through a library) process binary (video, audio, etc) or structured (PDF, etc) data
   • No known source code reviews available

4. Quality assurance:

   • Should always work out of the box
   • No debconf questions asked

   • Debian bugs

   • Maintenance in Debian is vigorous

   • Upstream is vigorous

   • Upstream bug tracker

   • Does not deal with hardware
   • Upstream test suite available, not run at build time

5. UI standards:

   • User-visible strings are internationalized using standard gettext system
   • Package doesn't build a PO template during package build (already available from upstream)

6. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliance

   • Packaging system cdbs
   • Patch system dpatch

7. Dependencies:

   • ruby1.8 (>= 1.8.2), ruby1.8-dev, racc (>= 1.4.3), libracc-runtime-ruby1.8 | libruby1.8 (>= 1.4.3), rake, irb1.8

   • libracc-runtime-ruby1.8 - provided by libruby1.8
   • irb1.8 - needs to be moved to main
   • racc - pending MIR
   • rake - pending MIR

8. Maintenance:

   • Largely takes care of itself (or rather Debian does)
   • The debian maintainer is watching over the quality of this package

9. Background information:

   • The general purpose and context of the package is clear from the package's debian/control file
   • Upstream calls this software ruby-gettext

10. Internationalization:

    • non-graphical app

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/417194

MIR Author: Harald Sitter <apachelogger@ubuntu.com>