Main Inclusion Report for screen-profiles

Requirements

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

2. Rationale:

   • Help new user in using screen
   • Provide the equivalent of a notification taskbar on tty connections

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: none

   • Secunia history: none

   • Any binaries running as root or suid/sgid ? NO Any daemons ? NO

   • Network activity: does it open any port ? NO Does it handle incoming network data ? NO

   • Does it directly (not through a library) process binary (video, audio, etc) or structured (PDF, etc) data ? NO

   • Any source code review performed ? Developped by DustinKirkland and NicolasBarcet - Used and some contribtions from Jamie Strandbroge

4. Quality assurance:

   • In what situations does the package not work out of the box without configuration ? None know
   • Does the package ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium' ? No

   • Debian bugs: Not available on Debian

   • Maintenance in Debian is frenetic/vigorous/calm/dead ? Not available on Debian

   • Upstream is frenetic/vigorous/calm/dead ? Currently frenetic

   • Upstream bug tracker: No critical bugs left

   • Hardware: Does this package deal with hardware and if so how exotic is it ? NO

   • Is there a test suite in the upstream source or packaging ? NO Is it enabled to run in the build ? NO

5. UI standards:

   • User-visible strings are internationalized using standard gettext system ? Incomplete. The screen-profiles-helper needs to be internationalized. (fixed in 1.9)

   • Package with translatable strings builds a PO template during package build ? No

   • End-user applications ship a desktop file ? N/A

6. Standards compliance:

   • FHS, Debian Policy compliance ? YES

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliance ? YES

   • Packaging system (debhelper/cdbs/dbs) ? debhelper Patch system ? None needed (yet?) Any packaging oddities ? Unseen

7. Dependencies:

   • Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, screen, gettext-base, python, python-newt

   • Recommends: update-notifier-common

   • Are these all in main ? Yes

8. Maintenance:

   • How much maintenance is this package likely to need ? Simple package

   • Who is responsible for monitoring the quality of this package and fixing its bugs ? DustinKirkland Are they Ubuntu or Debian developers ? Ubuntu Core Dev

9. Background information:

   • The general purpose and context of the package is clear from the package's debian/control file.

   • What do upstream call this software ? screen-profiles Has it had different names in the past ? No

10. Internationalization:

    • Are graphical applications translatable? Do they support gettext? Incomplete. The screen-profiles-helper needs to be internationalized. (fixed in 1.9)

Reviewers

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

Report author: NicolasBarcet