Main Inclusion Report for silc-toolkit (libsilc-1.0-2)

Requirements

1. Availability: silc-toolkit is http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/silc-toolkit, available for all supported architectures

2. Rationale:

   • Required to build Gaim with SILC support.

   • Gaim comes with SILC support by default in the Windows version and is available for other Linux distributions as a plug-in. It is a fairly standard feature of Gaim.

   • Would be required for any other SILC-enabled applications.

3. Security:

   • 1 CVE entry.

   • 1, "Less Critical", unpatched Secunia advisory.

   • No mention in Ubuntu-cve Unfixed or Unchecked

   • No binaries running as root or suid/sgid. ????
   • Does not open any port. ????
   • Source code review: ????

4. Quality assurance:

   • Package works out of the box without configuration.
   • Package does not ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'normal'. ???? I don't think it does.

   • No unresolved Debian bugs.

   • No unresolved Ubuntu bugs.

   • Good maintenance in Debian. It looks like somebody else is intending to take over the package, however. ????

   • Active upstream.

   • No critical bugs in upstream bug tracker. ???? There isn't a visible bug-tracker.

   • Does not deal with exotic hardware which we cannot support.

5. Standards compliance:

   • Meets the FHS, Debian Policy ????

   • Meets Debian library packaging guide standards. ????

   • Standard debhelper/cdbs/dbs packaging, standard patch system. ????

6. Dependencies:

   • All in main.

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