Main Inclusion Report for apt-xapian-index

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/a/apt-xapian-index; available for all supported architectures or some subset ?

2. Rationale:

   • Dependency of Adept
   • Suggests of Synaptic

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: None

   • Secunia history: None

   • update-apt-xapian-index needs to run as root
   • No network activity
   • Process apt data
   • Not known any source code review performed

4. Quality assurance:

   • Needs update-apt-xapian-index run before it works (Adept does this for you)
   • No debconf questions

   • Debian bugs: None

   • Maintenance in Debian is vigorous

   • Upstream is Debian
   • Hardware: Does not deal with hardware
   • No test suite

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliant

   • Packaging system cdbs, no patch system

6. Dependencies:

   • help2man, python
   • All in main

7. Background information:

   • The general purpose and context of the package is from the package's debian/control file.

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/260479

author: JonathanRiddell