| 2018-07-13 05:45:54 |
Lars Tangvald |
description |
Note: Both mecab and MySQL have a dependency on mecab-ipadic, so the request is for both mecab and mecab-ipadic
[Availability]
mecab and mecab-ipadic are in universe/misc (they are part of the same piece of software with upstream source https://github.com/taku910/mecab, but separate source packages)
[Rationale]
Mecab is used by MySQL for Japanese text parsing (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/fulltext-search-mecab.html), and is a build-dependency for Upstream/Debian MySQL packages. Since it is currently in universe, we maintain a diff for Ubuntu that removes this dependency (also removing the plugin). Including mecab and mecab-ipadic in main would let us include the text parsing features and allow us to drop the diff between Debian and Ubuntu for MySQL.
The package is a simple language parsing tool that has very few changes (but packaging is kept up to date by the mantainers).
[Security]
- Only found CVE was http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3231 (affecting versions older than 0.96). This was patched in 0.95 package before version update.
- No security relevant binaries
[Quality assurance]
- Packages are very simple, being just simple text parser util and csv files.
- Only outstanding bug is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mecab/+bug/1469406
- Package itself hasn't changed since 2013, but packaging is kept up-to-date by maintainers
- Package is missing d/watch and|or d/README.source
[Dependencies]
mecab depends on mecab-ipadic. Other dependencies are in main
[Standards compliance]
No issues reported by lintian, and package is synced directly from Debian.
[Maintenance]
Both packages are maintained by Natural Language Processing (Japanese) <team+pkg-nlp-ja@tracker.debian.org>
Last few years have had little maintainer work except for keeping packaging up-to-date (new standards versions, vcs urls etc.).
[Background information]
- The mecab package provides Japanese text parsing (through library or stdin interface)
- mecab-ipadic is an international phonetic alphabet (ipa) dictionary for mecab |
Note: Both mecab and MySQL have a dependency on mecab-ipadic, so the request is for both mecab and mecab-ipadic
[Availability]
mecab and mecab-ipadic are in universe/misc (they are part of the same piece of software with upstream source https://github.com/taku910/mecab, but separate source packages)
[Rationale]
Mecab is used by MySQL for Japanese text parsing (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/fulltext-search-mecab.html), and is a build-dependency for Upstream/Debian MySQL packages. Since it is currently in universe, we maintain a diff for Ubuntu that removes this dependency (also removing the plugin). Including mecab and mecab-ipadic in main would let us include the text parsing features and allow us to drop the diff between Debian and Ubuntu for MySQL.
The package is a simple language parsing tool that has very few changes (but packaging is kept up to date by the mantainers).
[Security]
- Only found CVE was http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3231 (affecting versions older than 0.96). This was patched in 0.95 package before version update.
- No security relevant binaries
[Quality assurance]
- The packages are very simple, being just simple text parser util and csv files.
- Only outstanding bug is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mecab/+bug/1469406
- Package itself hasn't changed since 2013, but packaging is kept up-to-date by maintainers
- Package is missing d/watch and|or d/README.source
[Dependencies]
mecab depends on mecab-ipadic. Other dependencies are in main
[Standards compliance]
No issues reported by lintian, and package is synced directly from Debian.
[Maintenance]
Both packages are maintained by Natural Language Processing (Japanese) <team+pkg-nlp-ja@tracker.debian.org>
Last few years have had little maintainer work except for keeping packaging up-to-date (new standards versions, vcs urls etc.).
[Background information]
- The mecab package provides Japanese text parsing (through library or stdin interface)
- mecab-ipadic is an international phonetic alphabet (ipa) dictionary for mecab |
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