Main Inclusion Report for libsetup-ruby

Requirements

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

2. Rationale:

   • the setup.rb install tool for Ruby
   • Build dependency of ruby-pkg-tools (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 calm

   • Upstream is calm

   • Does not deal with hardware
   • No real test suite available

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliance

   • Packaging system cdbs

6. Dependencies:

   • ruby1.8 - in main

7. Maintenance:

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

8. Background information:

   • The general purpose and context of the package is clear from the package's debian/control file
   • Upstream calls this software setup.rb

9. Internationalization:

   • non-graphical app

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/417203

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