[MIR] libemail-abstract-perl (libemail-sender-perl dependency as libmail-dmarc-perl dependency)

[Miriam España Acebal]

[MIR] libemail-abstract-perl (libemail-sender-perl dependency as libmail-dmarc-perl dependency)

Package: libemail-abstract-perl

[Availability]
The package libemail-abstract-perl is already in Ubuntu universe.
The package libemail-abstract-perl build for the architectures it is designed to work on.
It currently builds and works for architectures: amd64 (all)
Link to package https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libemail-abstract-perl

[Rationale]
The package libemail-abstract-perl is required in Ubuntu main for libemail-sender-perl.
The package libemail-abstract-perl will not generally be useful for a large part of
our user base, but is important/helpful still because libemail-sender-perl requires it as a runtime dependecy (MIR bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libemail-sender-perl/+bug/2037389) and this, in turn, is required as runtime dependency by libmail-dmarc-perl
( libmail-dmarc-perl is in the MIR process here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmail-dmarc-perl/+bug/2023971 )

The package libemail-abstract-perl is required in Ubuntu main no later than through the same scheduled requested for the libemail-sender-perl and libmail-dmarc-perl promotion, since libemail-sender-perl depends on it.

[Security]
No CVEs/security issues in this software in the past:
  - (0) https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=libemail-abstract-perl
  - (0) https://ubuntu.com/security/cves?q=&package=libemail-abstract-perl
  - (0) https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/libemail-abstract-perl
No `suid` or `sgid` binaries.
No executables in `/sbin` and `/usr/sbin`.
Package does not install services, timers or recurring jobs.
Package does not open privileged ports (ports < 1024).
Package does not expose any external endpoints.
Package does not contain extensions to security-sensitive software (filters, scanners, plugins, UI skins, ...);
It includes bits of MIME enconding perl modules, as it acts like an abstraction layer for it.

[Quality assurance - function/usage]
The package works well right after install

[Quality assurance - maintenance]
The package is maintained well in Debian/Ubuntu and does
not have too many, long-term & critical, open bugs:
   - Ubuntu (0) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libemail-abstract-perl/+bug
   - Debian (0) https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=libemail-abstract-perl
   - Upstream's bug tracker (1) https://github.com/rjbs/Email-Abstract/issues
     + Upstream's repo last activity:
       - last commit: in main, Sep 3, 2023
       - Issues without answer: 0
       - Updated issue/PR: Sep 3, 2023
       - last fixed/closed/merged issue: Jun 20, 2021
       - last merged PR: None
The package has not important/old open bugs on upstream.
The package does not deal with exotic hardware we cannot support

[Quality assurance - testing]
The package runs a test suite on build time, if it fails
it makes the build fail: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libemail-abstract-perl/3.009-2/+build/24611960/+files/buildlog_ubuntu-lunar-amd64.libemail-abstract-perl_3.009-2_BUILDING.txt.gz :

      dh_auto_test
    make -j4 test TEST_VERBOSE=1
   make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
   PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/usr/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(1, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t

The package runs an autopkgtest (via autodep8 using 'Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl' in d/control file - https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libemail-abstract-perl/tree/debian/control#n7 -),
that runs essentialy the above build-time test suite. It is currently passing on
this list of architectures (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x), except on i386: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/l/libemail-abstract-perl

The package does have failing autopkgtests tests right now, but since
they always failed they are handled as "ignored failure", this is
because the test depends on pkg-perl-tools package that is not
build for i386 since focal.

[Quality assurance - packaging]
debian/watch is present. Doesn't work with current version on Mantic:

  ❯ uscan --download-current-version
  uscan warn: In debian/watch no matching hrefs for version 3.009 in watch line
    https://metacpan.org/release/Email-Abstract .*/Email-Abstract-v?(?:[-_]?(\d[\-+\.:\~\da-zA-Z]*))(?i)(?:\.(?:tar\.xz|tar\.bz2|tar\.gz|tar\.zstd?|zip|tgz|tbz|txz))$

but it downloads correctly latest version (which is in Debian testing/unstable):
  ❯ uscan
  uscan: Newest version of libemail-abstract-perl on remote site is 3.010, local version is 3.009
  uscan: => Newer package available from:
          => https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/R/RJ/RJBS/Email-Abstract-3.010.tar.gz
  Successfully symlinked ../Email-Abstract-3.010.tar.gz to ../libemail-abstract-perl_3.010.orig.tar.gz.

debian/control defines a correct Maintainer field : Debian Perl Group <email address hidden> ( https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libemail-abstract-perl/tree/debian/control#n2)

This package does not yield massive lintian Warnings, Errors
  - recent build log of the package https://launchpadlibrarian.net/685399375/buildlog_ubuntu-mantic-amd64.libemail-abstract-perl_3.009-2_BUILDING.txt.gz
  - full output from `lintian --pedantic` :
    #source
    ❯ lintian -EvIL +pedantic --show-overrides
      E: libemail-abstract-perl changes: bad-distribution-in-changes-file unstable
      X: libemail-abstract-perl source: debian-watch-does-not-check-gpg-signature [debian/watch]
      P: libemail-abstract-perl source: update-debian-copyright 2021 vs 2022 [debian/copyright:11]

    #binary
    ❯ lintian -EvIL +pedantic --show-overrides ../libemail-abstract-perl_3.009-2.dsc
      W: libemail-abstract-perl: changelog-distribution-does-not-match-changes-file unstable != mantic [usr/share/doc/libemail-abstract-perl/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
      W: libemail-abstract-perl changes: distribution-and-changes-mismatch mantic unstable
      X: libemail-abstract-perl source: debian-watch-does-not-check-gpg-signature [debian/watch]
      P: libemail-abstract-perl source: update-debian-copyright 2021 vs 2022 [debian/copyright:11]

This package does not rely on obsolete or about to be demoted packages.
This package has no python2 or GTK2 dependencies.

The package will not be installed by default.

Packaging and build is easy, link to debian/rules: https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libemail-abstract-perl/tree/debian/rules

[UI standards]
Application is not end-user facing (does not need translation).

[Dependencies]
There are further dependencies that are not yet in main. The following are binary dependencies in universe

  + libemail-simple-perl : MIR bug 2031491
  + libmodule-pluggable-perl
  + libmro-compat-perl
    • libclass-c3-perl
      ◦ libalgorithm-c3-perl
      ◦ libclass-c3-xs-perl (Recommends)
    • libclass-c3-xs-perl (Recommends)

[Standards compliance]
This package correctly follows FHS and Debian Policy (4.6.0)

[Maintenance/Owner]
Owning Team will be Ubuntu Server Team.
Team is not yet, but will subscribe to the package before promotion.
This does not use static builds.
This does not use vendored code.
This package is not rust based.

The package successfully built during the most recent test rebuild : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-rebuild-20230830-mantic/+build/26596523/+files/buildlog_ubuntu-mantic-amd64.libemail-abstract-perl_3.009-2_BUILDING.txt.gz

[Background information]
The Package description explains the package well.
Upstream Name is Email-Abstract .
Link to upstream project https://metacpan.org/dist/Email-Abstract

This has been in the archive since at least 2005 (Hoary, 2.0-1). It's never had a bug filed against it in Launchpad.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

[16:39] <mirespace> that's three can be on hold
[16:39] <cpaelzer> or mirespace are you telling me this will be even less?
[16:39] <cpaelzer> on hold because we should be waiting for that dependency changes you mentioned?
[16:39] <mirespace> all the 11 dependencies that I narrowed for dmarc are already reviewed, except the ppal libmail-dmarc-perl itself
[16:40] <mirespace> yes
[16:40] <cpaelzer> ok
[16:40] <cpaelzer> I'll mark them incomplete for now based on that
[16:40] <cpaelzer> that removes them from the list until you'd change that

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for libemail-abstract-perl (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]