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[Miriam España Acebal <2039456@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

[MIR] libnet-ip-perl (as libmail-dmarc-perl dependency)

Package: libnet-ip-perl

[Availability]
The package libnet-ip-perl is already in Ubuntu universe.
The package libnet-ip-perl build for the architectures it is designed to work on.
It currently builds and works for architectures: amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x
Link to package https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnet-ip-perl

[Rationale]
The package libnet-ip-perl is required in Ubuntu main for libmail-dmarc-perl.
The package libnet-ip-perl will not generally be useful for a large part of
our user base, but is important/helpful still because is required as runtime dependency by libmail-dmarc-perl
( libmail-dmarc-perl is in the MIR process here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmail-dmarc-perl/+bug/2023971 )

The package libnet-ip-perl is required in Ubuntu main no later than
through the same scheduled requested for the libmail-dmarc-perl
promotion, since libmail-dmarc-perll depends on it.

[Security]
No CVEs/security issues in this software in the past:
  - (0) https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=libnet-ip-perl
  - (0) https://ubuntu.com/security/cves?q=&package=libnet-ip-perl
  - (0) https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/libnet-ip-perl
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, ...).

[Quality assurance - function/usage]
The package works well right after install

[Quality assurance - maintenance]
The package is maintained well in Debian/Ubuntu and does
not have too many, long-term & critical, open bugs:
   - Ubuntu (0) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnet-ip-perl/+bug
   - Debian (0) https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=libnet-ip-perl

However, in upstream there are not activity from any maintainer since 8 years ago and I haven't found a repository:
- Upstream's bug tracker (27) https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Net-IP

The package has important/old open bugs on upstream, some of them are (for a complete list, see the upstream's bug tracker link above):
 - Bad documentation:
   - Documented arguments for ip_prefix_to_range are incorrect: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=129391
   - ip_check_mask is documented but not implemented: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=123834
 -  Undef related:
    -  intip returns 0 ofor 0.0.0.0: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=117834
    -  Net::IP->new("0.0.0.0")->size crashes: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=124420
    -  ip++ return NULL on some funcions: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=101428
 - License ambiguity (not clear to me if this has been tackled): https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28689
 - Standards related:
   - short() does not follow rfc5952 for ipv6 addresses starting with 0: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=119998
   - IPv4 - 6 Missing Special Ranges: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=106122 

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://launchpadlibrarian.net/639235440/buildlog_ubuntu-lunar-amd64.libnet-ip-perl_1.26-3_BUILDING.txt.gz :

dh_auto_test
	make -j4 test TEST_VERBOSE=1
make[2]: Entering directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/usr/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(1, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t

The package runs an autopkgtest (via autodep8 using 'Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl' in d/control file - https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnet-ip-perl/tree/debian/control#n5 -),
that runs essentialy the above build-time test suite. It is currently passing on
all of the architectures, excep i386: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/l/libnet-ip-perl

The package does have failing autopkgtests tests right now, but since
they always failed they are handled as "ignored failure", this is
because the test depends on pkg-perl-autopkgtest 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
<pkg-perl-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (
https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnet-ip-
perl/tree/debian/control#n2)

This package does not yield massive lintian Warnings, Errors
  - recent build log of the package https://launchpadlibrarian.net/685399375/buildlog_ubuntu-mantic-amd64.libnet-ip-perl_3.009-2_BUILDING.txt.gz
  - full output from `lintian --pedantic` :
    #source
    ❯ lintian -EvIL +pedantic --show-overrides
      E: libnet-ip-perl changes: bad-distribution-in-changes-file unstable
      I: libnet-ip-perl source: out-of-date-standards-version 4.2.1 (released 2018-08-25) (current is 4.6.0.1)
      X: libnet-ip-perl source: debian-watch-does-not-check-gpg-signature [debian/watch]
      P: libnet-ip-perl source: silent-on-rules-requiring-root [debian/control]
      P: libnet-ip-perl source: update-debian-copyright 2012 vs 2022 [debian/copyright:19]
      X: libnet-ip-perl source: upstream-metadata-file-is-missing

    #binary
    ❯ lintian -EvIL +pedantic --show-overrides ../libnet-ip-perl_1.26-3.dsc
      I: libnet-ip-perl source: out-of-date-standards-version 4.2.1 (released 2018-08-25) (current is 4.6.0.1)
      X: libnet-ip-perl source: debian-watch-does-not-check-gpg-signature [debian/watch]
      P: libnet-ip-perl source: silent-on-rules-requiring-root [debian/control]
      P: libnet-ip-perl source: update-debian-copyright 2012 vs 20
      W: libnet-ip-perl: changelog-distribution-does-not-match-changes-file unstable != mantic [usr/share/doc/libnet-ip-perl/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
      W: libnet-ip-perl changes: distribution-and-changes-mismatch mantic unstable

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://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnet-ip-
perl/tree/debian/rules.

[UI standards]
Application is not end-user facing (does not need translation).

[Dependencies]
No further dependencies that are not yet in main.

[Standards compliance]
This package correctly follows FHS and Debian Policy (4.2.1)

[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://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/test-
rebuild-20230830-mantic/+build/26601185/+files/buildlog_ubuntu-mantic-
amd64.libnet-ip-perl_1.26-3_BUILDING.txt.gz

[Background information]
The Package description explains the package well.
Upstream Name is Net-IP .
Link to upstream project https://metacpan.org/dist/Net-IP

This has been promoted and demoted from main more than once, with the
most recent demotion in Lunar (2022). The original MIR appears to be LP:
#243276. Other than that it's only had a single bug opened against it,
which was an upgrade bug that expired over a decade ago.

Current version (1.26) is very old, being released by upstream in 2012.

Tha package has had a couple of bugs on Debian in the past:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?archive=both;src=libnet-
ip-perl .

The project was available for adoption in Debian in 2011
(https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623681#22).

Other options for this package that could be checked to see if they can
be used instead are:

libnet-ip-minimal-perl - module to check if an IP address is version 4 or 6
libnet-ip-xs-perl - Perl extension for manipulating IPv4/IPv6 addresses (XS)
libnet-ipaddress-perl - Functions used to manipulate IP addresses, masks and FQDN's
libnet-iptrie-perl - Perl module for building IPv4 and IPv6 address space hierarchies

but all of them are in universe, apart from the fact that functionality
towards libemail-dmarc-perl has not been studied deeply.

This has been in the archive since at least 2008 (Warty, 1.20-1).

** Affects: libnet-ip-perl (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  [MIR] libnet-ip-perl (as libmail-dmarc-perl dependency)

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