Main Inclusion Report for python-dateutil

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/python-dateutil; available for all supported architectures

2. Rationale:

   • Dependency of elisa. See also: Bug #262805

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: ...

   • Secunia history: ...

   • No binaries running as root or suid/sgid nor daemons
   • Network activity: None
   • Does it directly (not through a library) process binary (video, audio, etc) or structured (PDF, etc) data ?: Yes, it extracts data from a tarball shipped with the package. Tarball is: zoneinfo-2007i.tar.gz
   • Any source code review performed ? This is about parsing timezones data.. Code is overall well documented. I didn't find any big quirk

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

   • Maintenance in Debian is vigorous

   • Upstream is vigorous

   • Upstream bug tracker: None found
   • Hardware: Requires no specific hardware
   • Is there a test suite in the upstream source or packaging ? Yes but it's not enabled to run in the build

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliance ?: Yes

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliance ?: Yes

   • Packaging system: cdbs, quilt, no packaging oddities found.

6. Dependencies:

   • python
   • Are these all in main ? Yes

7. Background information:

   • This is a dependency of Storm too.

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/271680

Author: PhilippeNormand