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1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/a/apturl; its python ... thus available for all supported architectures.

2. Rationale:

   • Its a Depends of ubufox; ubufox uses apturl to trigger install of apt packages in new plugin finder service.

3. Security:

   • No known security issues.

4. Quality assurance:

   • In what situations does the package not work out of the box without configuration ? ... no configuration required.
   • Does the package ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium' ? No!
   • Hardware: Does this package deal with hardware and if so how exotic is it ? Isn't hardware specific.

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliance ? Yes, it stored its python modules in the pycentral hierarchy and installs /usr/bin/apturl, /usr/share/apturl/apturl.glade and adds a firefox preference file to /usr/share/firefox/defaults/pref/apturl.js to define the protocol handler.

   • Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) ? Its a native package that uses debhelper.

6. Dependencies:

   • python

   • python-central (>= 0.5.8)

   • python-gtk2 (>= 2.6.3-2)

   • python-glade2 (>= 2.6.3-2)

   • python-vte (>= 1:0.11.15-4)

   • gksu (>= 2.0.0-1ubuntu3)

   • gnome-icon-theme (>= 2.14.0-1)

   • gnome-app-install
   • Are these all in main ? Yes.

7. Background information:

   • What do upstream call this software ? Has it had different names in the past ? Ubuntu/Canonical is upstream (developed by Michael Vogt).

Reviewers

MartinPitt: looks fine, approved