Main Inclusion Report for libnet-dns-resolver-programmable-perl

Requirements

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

2. Rationale:

   • Build dependency of mail-spf-perl

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3. Security:

   • CVE entries: No CVE entries found for libnet-dns-resolver-programmable-perl.

   • Secunia history: No reports filed.

   • Any binaries running as root or suid/sgid ? No. Any daemons ? No.
   • Network activity: does it open any port ? Does it handle incoming network data ? No.
   • Does it directly (not through a library) process binary (video, audio, etc) or structured (PDF, etc) 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.
   • Does the package ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium' ? No.

   • Debian bugs: No open bugs.

   • Maintenance in Debian is Calm.

   • Upstream is calm.

   • Upstream bug tracker: No listed bugs. Change logs indicates a build bug relating to CPAN.pm and META.yml. However, this is said not to affect debian packaging.

   • Hardware: Does this package deal with hardware and if so how exotic is it ? No.
   • Is there a test suite in the upstream source or packaging ? Is it enabled to run in the build ? There is no test suite at the moment.

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliance ? FHS: Yes. Debian: 3.7.2

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliance ? Yes.

   • Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) ? debhelper Patch system ? No. Any packaging oddities ? Upstream has debian dir in orig.tar.gz, but is also Debian maintainer.

6. Dependencies:

   • libnet-dns-perl

   • libversion-perl is provided as part of perl-modules in intrepid. http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/libversion-perl

   • perl (>= 5.6.0-16)

   • Are these all in main ? Yes

7. Background information:

   • This perl module is made to allow offline DNS lookups using a virtal DNS by means of either static records or pre-retrieved records. Can also generate entries on the fly.

   • What do upstream call this software ? Net::DNS:Resolver::Programmable . Has it had different names in the past ? No.

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnet-dns-resolver-programmable-perl/+bug/260449

author: kstewart