Main Inclusion Report for libconvert-uulib-perl

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libc/libconvert-uulib-perl/; available for all supported architectures.

2. Rationale:

   • Needed to promote amavisd-new which is one of the target packages for ubuntu-server review spec.

3. Security:

   • One CVE from 2005:

   • Secunia history: Only a reference to the same CVE

   • Any binaries running as root or suid/sgid ? No Any daemons ? No
   • Network activity: does it open any port ? No Does it handle incoming network data ? No
   • Any source code review performed ? No

4. Quality assurance:

   • In what situations does the package not work out of the box without configuration ? None. It's a perl library
   • Does the package ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium' ? No

   • Debian bugs: None

   • Maintenance in Debian is calm, but the package is mature ?

   • http://search.cpan.org/dist/Convert-UUlib/ is vigorous ?

   • [http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Convert-UUlib: No bugs

   • Hardware: Does this package deal with hardware and if so how exotic is it ? No hardware

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliance ? Yes

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliance ? Yes

   • Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) ? CDBS Patch system ? quilt Any packaging oddities ? No

6. Dependencies:

   • libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1)

   • perl (>= 5.8.8-7ubuntu3)

   • Are these all in main ? Yes

7. Background information:

   • What do upstream call this software ? Convert::UUlib Has it had different names in the past ? No

Reviewers

MIR bug: 180736

Author: ScottKitterman