[MIR] langtable

[Sebastien Bacher]

[Availability]
The package langtable is already in Ubuntu universe.
The package langtable build for the architectures it is designed to work on.
It currently builds and works for architectures: amd64 (it's an arch all binary)
Link to package https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langtable

[Rationale]
- The package langtable is required in Ubuntu main as a new gnome-desktop library Depends
- The package langtable will be of use for internationalization improvements.
- There is no other/better way to solve this that is already in main or
  should go universe->main instead of this.

- The package langtable is required in Ubuntu main no later than February 29th due to Noble's feature freeze.

[Security]

- No CVEs/security issues in this software in the past

- no `suid` or `sgid` binaries
- no executables in `/sbin` and `/usr/sbin`
- Package does not install services, timers or recurring jobs
- Packages does not open privileged ports (ports < 1024).
- Package does not expose any external endpoints
- Packages does not contain extensions to security-sensitive software

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

[Quality assurance - maintenance]
- The package is maintained well in Debian/Ubuntu/Upstream and does
  have no bug reported downstream and only few minor ones upstream
  - Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langtable/+bug
  - Debian https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=langtable
  - Upstream's bug tracker, https://github.com/mike-fabian/langtable/issues
- 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, link to build log https://launchpadlibrarian.net/713978698/buildlog_ubuntu-noble-amd64.langtable_0.0.65-1_BUILDING.txt.gz

- The package runs an autopkgtest, and is currently passing on amd64 arm64 armhf ppc64el s390x, https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/langtable . i386 is failing because of python modules installability issues in the archive

[Quality assurance - packaging]
- debian/watch is present and works

- debian/control defines a correct Maintainer

- This package only has minor lintian warnings
# lintian --pedantic langtable_0.0.65-1_amd64.changes
W: langtable source: no-nmu-in-changelog [debian/changelog:1]
W: langtable source: source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number 0.0.65-1 [debian/changelog:1]
W: python3-langtable: spelling-error-in-changelog neeed need [usr/share/doc/python3-langtable/changelog.Debian.gz]

- Please link to a recent build log of the package https://launchpadlibrarian.net/713978698/buildlog_ubuntu-noble-amd64.langtable_0.0.65-1_BUILDING.txt.gz
- Please attach the full output you have got from
  `lintian --pedantic` as an extra post to this bug.
- Lintian overrides are not present

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

- The package will be installed by default, but does not ask debconf questions

- Packaging and build is easy, link to debian/rules https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/langtable/-/blob/debian/master/debian/rules

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

[Dependencies]
- No further depends or recommends dependencies that are not yet in main

[Standards compliance]
- This package correctly follows FHS and Debian Policy

[Maintenance/Owner]
- The owning team will be desktop-packages and I have their acknowledgement for that commitment
- The future owning team is already subscribed to the package

- This does not use static builds

- The package has been built in the archive more recently than the last test rebuild

[Background information]
The Package description explains the package well
Upstream Name is langtable
Link to upstream project https://github.com/mike-fabian/langtable

[Ioanna Alifieraki (joalif)]

Review for Source Package: langtabtle

[Summary]
MIR team ACK
This does not need a security review
List of specific binary packages to be promoted to main: python3-langtable
Specific binary packages built, but NOT to be promoted to main: <None>

Notes:
- The package should get a team bug subscriber before being promoted

[Rationale, Duplication and Ownership]
There is no other package in main providing the same functionality.
A team is committed to own long term maintenance of this package.
The rationale given in the report seems valid and useful for Ubuntu

[Dependencies]
OK:
- no other Dependencies to MIR due to this
- no -dev/-debug/-doc packages that need exclusion
- No dependencies in main that are only superficially tested requiring
  more tests now.

Problems: None

[Embedded sources and static linking]
OK:
- no embedded source present
- no static linking
- does not have unexpected Built-Using entries
- not a go package, no extra constraints to consider in that regard
- not a rust package, no extra constraints to consider in that regard
- Does not include vendored code

Problems: None

[Security]
OK:
- history of CVEs does not look concerning
- does not run a daemon as root
- does not use webkit1,2
- does not use lib*v8 directly
- does not parse data formats (files [images, video, audio,
  xml, json, asn.1], network packets, structures, ...) from
  an untrusted source.
- does not expose any external endpoint (port/socket/... or similar)
- does not process arbitrary web content
- does not use centralized online accounts
- does not integrate arbitrary javascript into the desktop
- does not deal with system authentication (eg, pam), etc)
- does not deal with security attestation (secure boot, tpm, signatures)
- does not deal with cryptography (en-/decryption, certificates,
  signing, ...)

Problems: None

[Common blockers]
OK:
- does not FTBFS currently
- does have a test suite that runs at build time
  - test suite fails will fail the build upon error.
- does have a non-trivial test suite that runs as autopkgtest
- This does not need special HW for build or test
- no new python2 dependency
- Python package, but using dh_python

Problems: None

[Packaging red flags]
OK:
- Ubuntu does not carry a delta
- symbols tracking not applicable for this kind of code.
- debian/watch is present and looks ok (if needed, e.g. non-native)
- Upstream update history is good
- Debian/Ubuntu update history is good
- the current release is packaged
- promoting this does not seem to cause issues for MOTUs that so far
  maintained the package
- no massive Lintian warnings
- debian/rules is rather clean
- It is not on the lto-disabled list

Problems: None

[Upstream red flags]
OK:
- no Errors/warnings during the build
- no incautious use of malloc/sprintf (the language has no direct MM)
- no use of sudo, gksu, pkexec, or LD_LIBRARY_PATH (usage is OK inside
  tests)
- no use of user nobody
- no use of setuid / setgid
- no important open bugs (crashers, etc) in Debian or Ubuntu
- no dependency on webkit, qtwebkit, seed or libgoa-*
- not part of the UI for extra checks
- no translation present, but none needed for this case (user visible)?

Problems: None

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks, the desktop-packages team is already subscribed so I'm changing the MIR to 'fix commited' now