Public bug reported: [Availability] This package is available in Debian. It was maintained there since Jan 2014 for the purpose of being an optional dependency of plainbox. The package is architecture-independent.
[Rationale] This package was an optional dependency of plainbox for over a year now. With recent uploads it was made a hard dependency so that our test suite coverage is better. We also actively use it and have always regarded is as a de-facto depndency. [Security] The package has a low security risk as it doesn't deal with anything sensitive. It is a simple Python library that can create xlsx spreadsheets. It cannot read spreadsheets so there is no risk in activating any malicious content. The package has no security bugs. [Quality assurance] The package has basic developer-oriented documentation that shows how to use it. Upstream source package has a rich set of examples but those are not packaged at this time. Interested developers can easily find that in the source package or in the upstream repository. The package does not currently ship a test suite although one is available upstream. The test suite is of considerable size compared to the size of the package. Upstream developers feel that if testing is essential then the Debian package should switch away from the tarball published to pypi and instead use tarballs generated by github for each specific release tag. This option was not explored yet. The package does not ship or require any translations. Similarly, since this is a library there is no Desktop file. [Dependencies] The package only depends on the Python runtime [Standards compliance] The package is a standard python library and follows all the required standards. [Maintenance] The package is relatively trivial to maintain. The build system is vanilla debhelper + pybuild. Any developer familiar with python packaging can easily contribute and look after this package. [Background information] This package is a simple Excel spreadsheet file writer. Plainbox uses it to create test reports that some of our users prefer over the HTML report as it is easier to make changes or add comments. The report is also easier to share as it is a single file that can be easily and readily sent to customers or business partners. We (checkbox and plainbox developers) have adopted this library as a simple, pythonic solution to the problem of generating "office" spreadsheets. The package has had no security bugs reported for it (I have searched all the recommended sources, as listed on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMainInclusionRequirements ) ** Affects: xlsxwriter (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1477531 Title: [MIR] xslxwriter To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xlsxwriter/+bug/1477531/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
