Main Inclusion Report for libmsn

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libm/libmsn/; available and builds for all supported architectures

2. Rationale:

   • Build dependency of kdenetwork. Kopete needs it in KDE 4.2 onward for its MSN chat protocol plugin

3. Security:

   • Not in any CVE tracker, no known holes.
   • No binaries are running as root or suid/sgid; no daemons
   • Would have network activity inasmuch as it handles network traffic for MSN chats, which includes receiving incoming files over chat.
   • Handles network data for MSN chat
   • Allows p2p file transfers between MSN chat users.
   • No review has been performed

4. Quality assurance:

   • In no situation does the package not work out of the box without configuration
   • The package does not ask any debconf questions
   • No bugs in the Debian bug tracker, still in Debian NEW queue

   • Upstream is calm

   • Hardware: This package does not deal with exotic hardware
   • libmsn has a test suite that is not built or run by default

5. UI standards:

   • Does not provide a UI

6. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliant

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliant

   • Uses debhelper, no patch system or any packaging oddities

7. Dependencies:

   • debhelper (>= 6.0.7), cmake, libssl-dev

   • All of these are in main

8. Maintenance:

   • This is a simple package requiring little work

   • Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org> is marked as the maintainer. He is a Debian developer

9. Background information:

   • The general purpose and context of the package is clear from the package's debian/control file.
   • Upstream has always called with this software "libmsn", as far as I can see.
   • Implements a cleanly reverse-engineered chat protocol.

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/308060

[Author] Jonathan Thomas (LP ~echidnaman)