MainInclusionReportmono-debugger

Main Inclusion Report for mono-debugger

Requirements

  1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/mono-debugger; available for i386 and AMD64 - probably works on LPIA too, can add to list of architectures in Debian package if confirmed ?

  2. Rationale:

    • Enables debugging of Mono-based apps & libraries (e.g. F-Spot, Tomboy, both in Main)

  3. Security:

    • No CVE entries
    • No Secunia advisories
    • No binaries running as root or suid/sgid. No daemons
    • No Network activity
    • Does not directly (not through a library) process binary (video, audio, etc) or structured (PDF, etc) data - uses "Mono.Cecil" library to parse Mono libs/executables
    • No source code review performed.

  4. Quality assurance:

    • Package works out of the box
    • No debconf questions

    • Debian bugs: No Debian bugs

    • Maintenance in Debian is performed by active team collaboration

    • Upstream is active (mono-debugger is now updated in tandem with the rest of the Mono stack)

    • Upstream bug tracker: Seems there may be a bug on recent kernels (423518) causing issues

    • Does not deal with hardware
    • No test suite

  5. UI standards:

    • Not internationalized (very few text strings)
    • Command-line app (no .desktop)

  6. Standards compliance:

  7. Dependencies:

    • libc6, libglib2.0-0, libmono-corlib2.0-cil, libmono-getoptions2.0-cil, libmono-system2.0-cil, libmono0, libmono1.0-cil, libncurses5, mono-runtime
    • All in Main
    • Dependency on libmono1.0-cil may be replaced by a new package during Jaunty development window (to help save disk space unnecessarily consumed by libmono1.0-cil dependencies)

  8. Maintenance:

    • Relatively small package, little work needed on a given release (but will need coaxing by a Mono-experienced developer for new upstream releases)
    • Team maintained by pkg-mono in Alioth (pkg-mono and pkg-cli-* contributors include several DDs and Ubuntu Developers)

Reviewers

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

-- directhex 2009-01-05 12:05:26

MainInclusionReportmono-debugger (last edited 2009-01-05 12:06:32 by osc-franzibald)