MainInclusionReportPolicykit-KDE
Main Inclusion Report for Policykit-KDE
Requirements
Availability: Available for all supported architectures. See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-kde/
Rationale:
- Kpackagekit is going to be the default package manager for Jaunty and next Kubuntu releases. Authentication process within Kpackagekit/Packagekit is using Policykit, and policykit-kde is the KDE frontend for it, thus, needed.
Security:
No CVE entries.
No Secunia history.
- No binaries running as root or suid/sgid, as this is just a frontend for Policykit.
- Any source code review performed? No
- Does not open any port.
Quality assurance:
- Package works out of the box without configuration.
- Good maintenance in Ubuntu.
Active upstream. See http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/base/PolicyKit-kde/
- Does not deal with exotic hardware which we cannot support.
- Upstream BTS: No upstream bug tracker known.
UI standards:
- User-visible strings are internationalized using standard gettext system ? Yes
- Package with translatable strings builds a PO template during package build ? Yes
- End-user applications ship a desktop file ? No, as this works as a kded module.
Standards compliance:
Meets the FHS, Debian Policy
- "Packaging system: cdbs. No patch system
Dependencies:
- kdebase-runtime, kdelibs5, libc6, libdbus-1-3, libgcc1, libglib2.0-0, libpolkit-dbus2, libpolkit-grant2, libpolkit2, libqt4-dbus, libqt4-svg, libqtcore4, libqtgui4, libstdc++6
- All in main.
Maintenance:
- Simple and standard KDE packaging.
- Ubuntu Developers are responsible for monitoring the quality of this package.
Background information:
- Upstream calls this software policykit-kde.
Internationalization:
- All the graphical parts of the application are translatable, and use gettext the way KDE does
Reviewers
MIR bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-kde/+bug/319571
MainInclusionReportPolicykit-KDE (last edited 2009-01-21 12:36:22 by linagoraberri)