Public bug reported:

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) 
<[email protected]>
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

** Affects: mecab (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: mecab-ipadic (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: mecab-ipadic (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Description changed:

  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)
+ 
+ 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.
+ 
+ - 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.
+ 
+ No issues reported by lintian, and package is synced directly from
+ Debian.
  
  [Maintenance]
  
  Both packages are maintained by Natural Language Processing (Japanese) 
<[email protected]>
  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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