Main Inclusion Report for kpackagekit

Requirements

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

2. Rationale:

   • Needed by Kubuntu

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: none

   • Secunia history: none

   • Does not include binaries running as root and daemons
   • Network activity: does not open ports or handle incoming data, that is handled by python-apt
   • Does not directly (not through a library) process binary (video, audio, etc) or structured (PDF, etc) data
   • No known source code review performed

4. Quality assurance:

   • Always works out of the box without configuration
   • No debconf questions
   • Not in Debian

   • Upstream is vigorous

   • Upstream bug tracker: busy

   • Hardware: Does not deal with
   • No test suite included

5. UI standards:

   • User-visible strings are internationalized using standard gettext system
   • .pot is built
   • End user applications have .desktop file

6. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliant

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliant

   • Packaging system cdbs, quilt

7. Dependencies:

   • packagekit not yet in main

8. Maintenance:

   • Package is likely to need a fair amount of maintenance
   • Kubuntu team and Sebastian Heinlein are responsible for maintenance

9. Background information:

   • The general purpose and context of the package is clear from the package's debian/control file.
   • Upstream call it kpackagekit

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/320012

The author of this report should put their name here; reviewers will add comments etc. too

Author: JonathanRiddell