Main Inclusion Report for libmbca

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libm/libmbca; available for all supported architectures or some subset ?

2. Rationale:

   • library to provide users with a mobile broadband wizard backed up with a provider database

   • Build Dependency of NetworkManager Applet (when adding mobile broadband wizard support)

3. Security:

   • no security issues known
   • The binaries run as normal user
   • does not use any ports (except for dbus maybe)
   • Brief review of code done by asac

4. Quality assurance:

   • The package works out of the box when the mobile-broadband-provider-info package is available and NM Applet is properly patched
   • the package does not ask any debconf questions
   • not yet in debian (no debian bugs)
   • not yet in debian (no entry on packages.qa.debian.org)

   • http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/MobileBroadband/ (not yet official) part of the gnome project; subproject of NetworkManager

   • Hardware: This package deals with 3g hardware which is recognized by hal and only on a high level (e.g. no driver)
   • No test suite - code is reasonably small enough. also its a GUI application

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS and Debian Policy compliant.

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliant.

   • Packaging system cdbs. No patchsystem used yet (simple-patchystem included in rules).

6. Dependencies:

   • mobile-broadband-provider-info (data-only package) needs to go to main too.

7. Background information:

   • Purpose: 3g provider database wizard for Network Manager.

8. Code/Packaging: http://code.launchpad.net/libmbca

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/273514

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