MainInclusionReportPapyon

Requirements

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

  2. Rationale:

    • This package contains the MSN protocol used by telepathy-butterfly which won't work without it.
    • Empathy is slated to become the default instant messenger for Karmic.

  3. Security:

    • CVE entries: None

    • Secunia history: None

    • Any binaries running as root or suid/sgid ? Any daemons ? No
    • Network activity: does it open any port ? Does it handle incoming network data ? No. Yes.
    • 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 known.
    • Does the package ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium' ? No.

    • Debian bugs: there aren't bugs.

    • Maintenance in Debian is frenetic

    • Upstream is frenetic

    • Upstream bug tracker: there are only two low-priority bugs ATM.

    • 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 ? No.

  5. UI standards:

    • User-visible strings are internationalized using standard gettext system ? There are no strings.
    • Package with translatable strings builds a PO template during package build ? Upstream doesn't provide a .pot file.
    • End-user applications ship a desktop file ? No.

  6. Standards compliance:

    • FHS, Debian Policy compliance ? Yes.

    • Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) ? Patch system ? Any packaging oddities ? debhelper, no, no.

  7. Dependencies:

    • python (>= 2.5), python-crypto, python-gobject, python-openssl, python-support (>= 0.90.0)

    • Are these all in main ? Yes.

  8. Maintenance:

    • How much maintenance is this package likely to need ? Devid Antonio Filoni maintains it.

    • Who is responsible for monitoring the quality of this package and fixing its bugs ? Are they Ubuntu or Debian developers ? Devid Antonio Filoni (Ubuntu MOTU)

    • Who is the package bug contact in Ubuntu? Devid Antonio Filoni

  9. Background information:

    • The general purpose and context of the package should be clear from the package's debian/control file.
    • What do upstream call this software ? Has it had different names in the past ? The software was called pymsn (papyon it's a fork of the unmaintained pymsn library).

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/388898

Author: Devid Antonio Filoni

MainInclusionReportPapyon (last edited 2009-08-21 11:02:03 by host92-95-dynamic)