Main Inclusion Report for pyusb

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pyusb/

2. Rationale:

   • This package is needed by hal-cups-utils as runtime dependency

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: No entries listed

   • Secunia history: Nothing listed

   • No binaries running as root (runs only as root if caller runs as root) or suid/sgid, no daemons.
   • No network activity: Does not open ports, does not handle incoming network data.
   • No handling of binary or structured data.
   • No source code checks done. The package is simply an interface between Python and libusb. libusb is already in main.

4. Quality assurance:

   • No configuration required. Package does not contain any file in /etc.
   • No debconf questions.

   • Debian bugs: Only one bug listed, not marked as high priority, did never hit it with hal-cups-utils.

   • Maintenance in Debian: Gets regularly packaged in Debian, last two uploads in June and July 2008.

   • Upstream: Low upload frequency, probably only needs change when libusb API changes.

   • Upstream bug tracker: No open bugs listed.

   • Hardware: The package does not directly deal with hardware, it is only an interface between Python programs and libusb. The hardware access is done by libusb which is already in main.
   • No test suites included, but package is very simple.

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy, and Python policy compliant.

   • Debian packaging straight-forward for Python library packages.

6. Dependencies:

   • Only Python and libusb, both in main.

7. Background information:

   • debian/control describes the package well. USB access is done via libusb.
   • Upstream name is also "pyusb" and it seems that it was so all the time.

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/253123

Submitted by Till Kamppeter