Main Inclusion Report for libplist

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libp/libplist; available for all supported architectures

2. Rationale:

   • Required by libiphone and the new gvfs afc backend

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: no CVE entry

   • Secunia history: no secunia history

   • No non user binaries, no daemon
   • Local library
   • Does process binaries and xml from apple devices
   • Any source code review performed ? No

4. Quality assurance:

   • The package works out of the box, it's a library used by libiphone
   • No debconf question

   • Debian bugs: No open bug

   • Maintenance in Debian was inactive but got a new maintainer recently

   • Upstream seems reasonable active (recent 1.0 version)

   • Upstream bug tracker: 6 open tickets only nothing looking a real issue

   • Hardware: the package deals with apple devices
   • test dir in the source but that doesn't seem to be a real testsuite, not run during the build

5. UI standards:

   • The library is not something the user interact directly with, no translation
   • No translation template to update
   • No desktop file

6. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliant

   • Packaging system: standard debhelper, no patch system set yet

7. Dependencies:

   • libc6, libglib2.0-0, libxml2, all in main

8. Maintenance:

   • How much maintenance is this package likely to need ? Library in 1.0 version and in direct sync from Debian, should be easy to maintain in Ubuntu
   • Who is responsible for monitoring the quality of this package and fixing its bugs ? Debian and Ubuntu Desktop Team will look at issues impact on the gvfs backend
   • Who is the package bug contact in Ubuntu? The desktop team

9. Background information:

   • The general purpose and context of the package us clear from the package's debian/control file.
   • What do upstream call this software ? Has it had different names in the past ? libplist, no previous naming

10. Internationalization:

    • The library doesn't interact with users directly and has no translations

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/494536

SebastienBacher