Describe MainInclusionReportLiblouis here.

Main Inclusion Report for liblouis

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libl/liblouis/; Available for all architectures

2. Rationale:

   • Build dependency of gnome-orca, to provide grade 2 Braille support

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: There are none at this time

   • Secunia history: There are none at this time

   • No binaries running as root or suid root, and no daemons.
   • No network activity, doesn't handle incoming data.
   • It processes incoming text to be translated into Braille.
   • No source code review performed.

4. Quality assurance:

   • The package works out of the box without configuration, as it is a shared library, with python bindings, and command-line tools.
   • No debconf questions asked at all.

   • Debian bugs: Bug 530608 is a showstopper, but has a pending fix in liblouis' Debian git packaging branch, and can be pulled into Ubuntu until a new Debian upload is made.

   • Maintenance in Debian is vigorous.

   • Upstream is frenetic

   • Upstream bug tracker: No critical bugs to mention.

   • This package does not deal with any hardware.
   • There is a test suite in the upstream package, however it doesn't appear to be enabled in the package build.

5. UI standards:

   • There are user visible strings for the command-line tools, however these are not internationalized.
   • Package has no translatable strings.
   • Since this is a shared library with command-line tools, no desktop file is needed.

6. Standards compliance:

   • The package is FHS compliant, and complies with Debian Policy, standards version 3.8.1.

   • Packaging system is debhelper, no packaging oddities.

7. Dependencies:

   • debhelper
   • autotools-dev
   • pkg-config
   • python-all-dev
   • python-support
   • texinfo
   • These are all in main.

8. Maintenance:

   • This package will only require little maintenance, usually updating upstream releases/updating from Debian.
   • I, Luke Yelavich, will be responsible for monitoring this package and bugs in Ubuntu, Debian, and upstream.

9. Background information:

   • The use of the package is indicated clearly in the control file.
   • Upstream call this software liblouis, which has been the given name from the project's inception.

10. Internationalization:

    • No GUI applications.

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/391446

Report author: Luke Yelavich <luke.yelavich@canonical.com>