[MIR] libemail-mime-perl (libmail-dmarc-perl dependency)
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libemail-mime-perl (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
|
Undecided
|
Miriam España Acebal | ||
Bug Description
[Availability]
The package libemail-mime-perl is already in Ubuntu universe.
The package libemail-mime-perl build for the architectures it is designed to work on.
It currently builds and works for architectures: amd64 (all)
Link to package https:/
[Rationale]
The package libemail-mime-perl is required in Ubuntu main for libmail-dmarc-perl.
The package libemail-mime-perl will not generally be useful for a large part of
our user base, but is important/helpful still because libmail-dmarc-perl requires it as a runtime dependency
( libmail-dmarc-perl is in the MIR process here: https:/
The package libemail-mime-perl is required in Ubuntu main no later than through the same scheduled requested
for the libmail-dmarc-perl promotion, since libmail-dmarc-perl depends on it.
[Security]
No CVEs/security issues in this software in the past.
No `suid` or `sgid` binaries.
No executables in `/sbin` and `/usr/sbin`.
Package does not install services, timers or recurring jobs.
Package does not open privileged ports (ports < 1024).
Package does not expose any external endpoints.
Package does not contain extensions to security-sensitive software (filters, scanners, plugins, UI skins, ...), except
that it is in esence a MIME parser module.
[Quality assurance - function/usage]
The package works well right after install
[Quality assurance - maintenance]
The package is maintained well in Debian/
not have too many, long-term & critical, open bugs:
- Ubuntu (0) https:/
- Debian (3) https:/
- Upstream's bug tracker (11) https:/
+ Upstream's repo last activity:
- commit: in main, Jan 9 2023
- updated issue: Jan 12 2023
- fixed/closed issue: Jan 12 2023
The package has important open bugs, listing them:
- https:/
This is also discussed upstream at https:/
and it seems to be "resolved" as per the changelog:
1.947 2020-05-09 14:30:06-04:00 America/New_York (TRIAL RELEASE)
- add $Email:
parts; current default: 10
but the commits relative to it for the tag 1.947 doesn't reference issue #66.
The package does not deal with exotic hardware we cannot support
[Quality assurance - testing]
The package runs a test suite on build time, if it fails
it makes the build fail: https:/
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
dh_auto_test
make -j4 test TEST_VERBOSE=1
make[1]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
PERL_
The package runs an autopkgtest (via autodep8 using 'Testsuite: autopkgtest-
that runs essentialy the above build-time test suite.It is currently passing on
this list of architectures (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x), except on i386: https:/
The package does have failing autopkgtests tests right now, but since
they always failed they are handled as "ignored failure", this is
because the package the test depends on pkg-perl-tools package that is not
build for i386 since focal.
[Quality assurance - packaging]
debian/watch is present and works.
debian/control defines a correct Maintainer field : Debian Perl Group <email address hidden>
This package does not yield massive lintian Warnings, Errors
- recent build log of the package https:/
- full output from `lintian --pedantic` :
# source
❯ lintian -EvIL +pedantic --show-overrides
E: libemail-mime-perl changes: bad-distributio
W: libemail-mime-perl: changelog-
W: libemail-mime-perl changes: distribution-
#binary
❯ lintian -EvIL +pedantic --show-overrides ../libemail-
W: libemail-mime-perl source: newer-standards
X: libemail-mime-perl source: debian-
- Lintian overrides are not present
This package does not rely on obsolete or about to be demoted packages.
This package has no python2 or GTK2 dependencies.
The package will not be installed by default.
Packaging and build is easy, link to debian/rules: https:/
[UI standards]
Application is not end-user facing (does not need translation).
[Dependencies]
There are further dependencies that are not yet in main. Checking recursive dependencies. MIR bugs will be opened for them:
- libemail-
+ MIR bug: https:/
- libemail-
+ MIR bug: https:/
-> libtext-
+ MIR bug: https:/
- libemail-
+ MIR bug: https:/
- libemail-
+ MIR bug https:/
[Standards compliance]
This package correctly follows FHS and Debian Policy (4.6.2)
[Maintenance/Owner]
Owning Team will be Ubuntu Server Team.
Team is not yet, but will subscribe to the package before promotion.
This does not use static builds.
This does not use vendored code.
This package is not rust based.
The package successfully built during the most recent test rebuild : https:/
[Background information]
The Package description explains the package well.
Upstream Name is Email-MIME .
Link to upstream project https:/
This has been in the archive since at least 2006. It's never had a bug filed against it in Launchpad.
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| Changed in libemail-mime-perl (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Lukas Märdian (slyon) |
| Lukas Märdian (slyon) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in libemail-mime-perl (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| assignee: | Lukas Märdian (slyon) → Miriam España Acebal (mirespace) |
| tags: | added: sec-2671 |
Review for Source Package: libemail-mime-perl
[Summary]
A Perl module for parsing MIME messages.
MIR team ACK under the constraint to resolve the below listed
required TODOs and as much as possible having a look at the
recommended TODOs.
This does need a security review, so I'll assign ubuntu-security
List of specific binary packages to be promoted to main: libemail-mime-perl
Specific binary packages built, but NOT to be promoted to main: None
Notes:
#0 This is a MIME parser, which could also deal with de-/encryption in a secure email context, I'm therefore requesting security review.
Required TODOs:
#1 other Dependencies to MIR due to this
* bug #2030956, libemail-
* bug #2030962 (done), libemail-
* bug #2031487 (done), libemail-
* bug #2031491 (pending), libemail-
#2 Potential duplicates in "main": libmime-lite-perl & libmime-tools-perl
=> Could you please differentiate those from this package, or consider if they could be used instead?
#3 Thanks for your analysis of this bug report, can you please clarify the verdict (is it fixed)? Please try to reproduce this or check back with the maintainer(s).
=> https:/
=> https:/
Recommended TODOs:
#4 The package should get a team bug subscriber before being promoted
[Duplication]
Here are some potential duplicates, two of them in "main" already. Could you please differentiate those from this package, or consider if they could be used instead?
$ rmadison -c main -s mantic {libmime-
libmime-lite-perl | 3.033-1 | mantic | source, all
libmime-tools-perl | 5.510-3 | mantic | source, all
[Dependencies]
OK:
- no -dev/-debug/-doc packages that need exclusion
- No dependencies in main that are only superficially tested requiring
more tests now.
Problems:
- other Dependencies to MIR due to this
* bug #2030956, libemail-
* bug #2030962 (done), libemail-
* bug #2031487 (done), libemail-
* bug #2031491 (pending), libemail-
[Embedded sources and static linking]
OK:
- no embedded source present
- no static linking
- does not have unexpected Built-Using entries
- not a go package, no extra constraints to consider in that regard
- not a rust package, no extra constraints to consider in that regard
Problems: None
[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 expose any external endpoint (port/socket/... or similar)
- does not process arbitrary web content
- does not use centralized online accounts
- does not integrate arbitrary javascript into the desktop
- does not deal with syste...