Public bug reported: 1. Availability: i386, amd64 <http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/s/serf/>.
2. Rationale: serf is a new build-dependency of subversion 1.6.3 and 1.6.4 in Debian; subversion 1.6.1 is in Ubuntu main. In order to merge subversion 1.6.4 (LP bug #406245), we will either need to promote serf or add further Ubuntu-specific changes to subversion. Since Subversion upstream is considering changing the default HTTP client library from neon to serf (because it supports pipelined requests and multiple concurrent connections for better performance), it seems best for Ubuntu’s subversion to include both the neon and serf backends, like Debian’s. 3. Security: No CVE entries <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi- bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=serf>, no Secunia history <http://secunia.com/search/?search=serf>, no setuid binaries, no network servers. serf is an HTTP client library. 4. Quality assurance: The package requires no configuration. The last upload by the Debian serf maintainer was a year ago, but there were two NMUs last month by the Debian subversion maintainer. The only open Debian bug report is an unconfirmed FTBFS of an old version (which isn’t too concerning given that the package has already built in Karmic). Upstream <http://code.google.com/p/serf/> has regular Subversion commits (many per week), and has 9 open bugs (out of 49) that don’t look particularly notable. There is a test suite that runs successfully at build. 5. UI standards: This is a library, not a user-facing application. 6. Standards compliance: There are 6 lintian warnings that look pretty minor <http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/serf.html>. It is packaged using CDBS and all Debian patches are applied with quilt. The two binary packages, libserf-0-0 and libserf-0-0-dev, install a library and corresponding development files to standard locations as you’d expect. 7. Dependencies: All dependencies and build-dependencies are in main (apr, apr-util, openssl, eglibc, zlib, cdbs, debhelper, quilt, autotools-dev). 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. ** Affects: serf (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Promote serf from universe to main https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410624 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
