[Bug 369111] Re: Promote cvsps from universe to main

[Anders Kaseorg]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: cvsps
  
  1. Availability: all architectures
  <http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/cvsps/>
  
  2. Rationale: cvsps is a dependency of git-cvs, which is already in
  main.  It is also a build dependency of the git-core source package in
  Debian; this build dependency is currently patched out by Ubuntu because
  cvsps is in universe.  This is now the _only_ Ubuntu-specific needed in
  git-core (all other Ubuntu changes are already in Debian), which stops
  Ubuntu’s Git from receiving automatic updates from Debian unstable, and
  causes it to languish far behind Debian—Jaunty released with a version
  of Git that was nearly six months obsolete (LP bug #319096, LP bug
  #315870).
  
  3. Security: No CVE entries <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-
  bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=cvsps>, no Secunia history
  <http://secunia.com/search/?search=cvsps>, no setuid binaries, no
  network servers.  It can either act as a direct CVS client, or perform
  all remote access through the system cvs binary.
  
  4. Quality assurance: The package requires no configuration.  It got a
  new Debian maintainer in September 2007, who accepted a patch from
  Ubuntu last October.  There are a handful of open Debian bugs
- <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=cvsps;dist=unstable>.
- A notable report is <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464090>, which requests switching to a more
- current upstream that has 19 patches (9 files changed, 205
- insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)) on top of cvsps 2.1.  The critical ones
- are already in Debian as dpatches.  The source does not have a test
- suite, but I have used the package in conjunction with git-cvs and it
- seems to work fine.
+ <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=cvsps;dist=unstable>,
+ and no open Ubuntu bugs
+ <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cvsps>.  A notable report is
+ <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464090>, which
+ requests switching to a more current upstream that has 19 patches (9
+ files changed, 205 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)) on top of cvsps 2.1.
+ The critical ones are already in Debian as dpatches.  The source does
+ not have a test suite, but I have used the package in conjunction with
+ git-cvs and it seems to work fine.
  
  5. UI standards: This package is not user-facing, except possibly for
  some error messages (which are not localized).
  
  6. Standards compliance: There are 3 lintian warnings
  <http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/cvsps.html>, which don’t look serious
  (debian/copyright lists the copyright holder instead of displaying a
  copyright notice, debian/compat of 4, and a non-fatal manpage error).
  The package installs a single binary and manpage in the standard
  locations, and all Debian changes are made with dpatch.
  
  7. Dependencies: All dependencies (libc6, zlib1g, cvs) and build
  dependencies (debhelper, zlib1g-dev, dpatch) are in main.
  
  8. Maintenance: This package is infrequently updated in Debian and is
  not likely to require any additional attention from Ubuntu.
  
  9. Background information: Nothing notable beyond debian/control.
  
  10. Internationalization: This is not a graphical application and does
  not require translation.

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