Main Inclusion Report for libspectre

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libs/libspectre; available for amd64/i386, needs-porting for lpia

2. Rationale:

   • Build dependency of evince 2.23.5 - Needed for Postscript rendering

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: ...

   • Secunia history: ...

   • No binaries running as root or suid/sgid and no daemons.
   • Network activity: None
   • It doesn't parse any binary file format; it does parse Postscript which is ASCII
   • No source code review performed yet.

4. Quality assurance:

   • No known situations does the package not work out of the box without configuration.
   • There are no debconf questions.

   • Debian bugs: 2 open, both marked fixed-upstream

   • Maintenance in Debian is calm

   • Upstream is calm

   • Upstream bug tracker

   • This package does not deal with hardware
   • There a test suite in the upstream source or packaging and it is enabled to run in the build.

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliance ?

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliance ?

   • Packaging system: cdbs
   • Patch system: simple-patchsys.
   • Any packaging oddities: none

6. Dependencies:

   • libgs8, libc6
   • All dependencies are in main

7. Background information:

   • The general purpose and context of the package are clear from the package's debian/control file..
   • Upstream has called this software libspectre, and it has always had the same name in its past.

Reviewers

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

Author: Michael Casadevall <sonicmctails@gmail.com>