Review for Package: python-typing-extensions [Summary] The overall package looks good and seems fine for a MIR team ACK. However, I have 2 required TODOs: one question to ensure that the rationale is clearer on this package use, and also that we investigate why it’s not been updated in Debian for a while, and the plan for future maintainance then. Notes: Required TODOs: - Question: Please clarify the rationale for this dependency. the description is as such: "The typing module was added to the standard library in Python 3.5 on a provisional basis and will no longer be provisional in Python 3.7. However, this means users of Python 3.5 - 3.6 who are unable to upgrade will not be able to take advantage of new types added to the typing module…" However, it’s been long that we are in python 3.7+ as it’s from focal+. So do you plan to backport netplan on even older versions, or is the description mistitled and actually, even more backport happened post 3.7? - The current release is NOT packaged (4.4.0), which was released quite some months ago: Oct 7, 2022. Any idea when it will hit Debian to ensure this is still actively maintained? [Duplication] There is no other package in main providing the same functionality. [Dependencies] OK: - no other Dependencies to MIR due to this - python-typing-extensions checked with `check-mir` - all dependencies can be found in `seeded-in-ubuntu` (already in main) - none of the (potentially auto-generated) dependencies (Depends and Recommends) that are present after build are not in main - no -dev/-debug/-doc packages that need exclusion - No dependencies in main that are only superficially tested requiring more tests now. [Embedded sources and static linking] OK: - no embedded source present - no static linking - does not have unexpected Built-Using entries OK: - 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 [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 open a port/socket - 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, ...) [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 - no new python2 dependency - Python package, but using dh_python [Packaging red flags] OK: - Ubuntu does not carry a delta - symbols tracking not applicable for this kind of code. - d/watch is present and looks ok - Upstream update history is good - Debian/Ubuntu update history is good - promoting this does not seem to cause issues for MOTUs that so far - no massive Lintian warnings - d/rules is rather clean - It is not on the lto-disabled list Problems: - the current release is NOT packaged (4.4.0), which was released quite some months ago: Oct 7, 2022. Any idea when it will hit Debian to ensure this is still actively maintained? [Upstream red flags] OK: - no Errors/warnings during the build - no incautious use of malloc/sprintf (as far as we can check it) - no use of sudo, gksu, pkexec, or LD_LIBRARY_PATH (usage is OK inside tests) - no use of user nobody - no use of setuid - 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