[MIR] abi-compliance-checker

[Chris Halse Rogers]

[Availability]
Available in Universe since at least 12.04

[Rationale]
The mir source package requires it as a build-dependency; Mir uses abi-compliance-checker as a part of its build-time test-suite to detect ABI breaks.

[Security]
No CVEs found, ships no daemons, ships no setuid or setgid binaries. Not normally run on untrusted input.

[Quality assurance]
No bugs in Ubuntu.

A few long-standing Debian bugs, all of which are either wishlist or in dh-acc debhelper checker which we don't use (and doesn't need to be in main).

No test-suite.

[Dependencies]
Basically none; build-essential, debhelper, help2man.

[Standards compliance]
Lintian clean, bar one false-positive about the upstream changelog filename.

[Maintenance]
Low; is currently synced from Debian, and this is not expected to change.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Seems innocent enough, but still needs a team bug subscriber.

I like that it has dep8 tests! And of course that we're in sync with Debian.

Is there a particular reason Mir doesn't use dh_acc? Not knowing anything about it, I would have assumed it would be nicer integration for an Ubuntu package like Mir.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Mir doesn't use dh_acc because we didn't actually know it existed before filing this MIR :).

Now that we do, I might add it in addition to our current use of abi-compliance-checker. We use abi-compliance-checker as a part of the upstream build system, so dh-acc isn't applicable to our current use.

Can we subscribe mir-team to the package bugs? That will effectively be me, of course :).

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

mir-team would work

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

> mir-team would work

Please note that the reason for wanting a team subscriber in the first place is so that we can identify who's responsible for the package via <http://reqorts.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/m-r-package-team-mapping.html> (and pages derived from this data). If the subscribing team for this is going to be mir-team, could the ubuntu-mir team (heh) please coordinate this with Brian Murray?

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

this blocks building mir, and the GCC 5 transition

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

I haven't gotten a hold of RAOF yet, but since this is blocking gcc5, let's just get this in now and we can subscribe later. I'll make sure to follow up on it.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

(and mir-team is subscribed now)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Moved to main.

[kapouer (kapouer)]

Hello !
can this be of use to debian ?