Main Inclusion Report for pyicu

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pyicu; available for all supported architectures

2. Rationale:

   • Python provides no native unicode collation facilities. There is a library 'libicu' that provides several unicode algorithms, including collation. It's in main and on the installer CD (used by openoffice for example). But the python wrapper is only in universe.
   • The installer program Ubiquity would like to use collation for sorting the list of languages and translated country names. So it would be nice to have this in main/on-the-CD.

3. Security:

   • The pyicu package itself is not referenced in security trackers, though the icu library is. But icu is already in main.
   • No binaries or daemons
   • No network activity
   • It doesn't directly process structured data (though it does process structured unicode data via libicu)

   • Any source code review performed ? I performed only a glancing look at the code. It seems to just be python wrapping code.

4. Quality assurance:

   • In what situations does the package not work out of the box without configuration ? None that I know of. It works for me fine, modulo some API that gave NotImplemented exceptions for bits of libicu that weren't covered by the bindings.

   • Does the package ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium' ? No debconf questions.

   • Debian bugs: None open

   • Maintenance in Debian is calm

   • Upstream is calm ?

   • Upstream bug tracker: No bugs open

   • Hardware: Doesn't deal with hardware

   • Is there a test suite in the upstream source or packaging ? yes Is it enabled to run in the build ? yes, but disabled by default by Ubuntu to avoid a false-positive with python2.6

5. UI standards:

   • User-visible strings are internationalized using standard gettext system ? N/A

   • Package with translatable strings builds a PO template during package build ? N/A

   • End-user applications ship a desktop file ? N/A

6. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliance ? seems up to date, policy 3.8.1

   • Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) ? debhelper Patch system ? dpatch Any packaging oddities ? no

7. Dependencies:

   • libc6 (>= 2.4), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libicu40 (>= 4.0-1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), python (<< 2.7), python (>= 2.5), python-support (>= 0.90.0)

   • The only odd one there is libicu40, which is the library that it wraps.

   • Are these all in main ? yes

8. Maintenance:

   • How much maintenance is this package likely to need ? (Simple packages may largely take care of themselves; complex packages will need dedicated developers paying attention to them.) should be none for ubuntu

   • Who is responsible for monitoring the quality of this package and fixing its bugs ? Are they Ubuntu or Debian developers ? Debian: Debian Python Modules Team and Bernd Zeimetz

9. Background information:

   • Description from control file:

Description: Python extension wrapping the ICU C++ API
 ICU is a C++ and C library that provides robust and full-featured
 Unicode and locale support. This package provides an extension for
 Python which wraps the ICU C++ API.

• What do upstream call this software ? PyICU Has it had different names in the past ? Not that I can tell

1. Internationalization:

   • Are graphical applications translatable? Do they support gettext? N/A

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/400292 Author: mterry