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[Miriam España Acebal <2039563@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Package: libregexp-common-perl

[Availability]
The package libregexp-common-perl is already in Ubuntu universe.
The package libregexp-common-perl build for the architectures it is designed to work on.
It currently builds and works for architectures: amd64 (all)
Link to package https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libregexp-common-perl

[Rationale]
The package libregexp-common-perl is required in Ubuntu main for libmail-dmarc-perl.
The package libregexp-common-perl will not generally be useful for a large part of
our user base, but is important/helpful still because it 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 libregexp-common-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:
  - (0) https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=libregexp-common-perl
  - (0) https://ubuntu.com/security/cves?q=&package=libregexp-common-perl
  - (0) https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/libregexp-common-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, ...); but creates and parse patterns of URIs and other sensitive information like credit cards.
Regexp::Common is a Perl module that exports a single hash ('%RE') that stores or generates commonly needed regular expressions.


[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/libregexp-common-perl/+bug
   - Debian (0) https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=libregexp-common-perl
However, in upstream there are not a lot of activity.
   - Upstream's bug tracker (24) https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Regexp-Common
     + Upstream's repo last activity: https://github.com/Abigail/Regexp--Common 
       - last commit: in master, Jun 2, 2017
       - Last answered issue: Jan 13, 2022
       - Issues without answer: 12
       - last fixed/closed issue: Jun 3, 2016
       - last merged PR: Never

The package has important/old open bugs on upstream , some of them are:
- /^$RE{URI}$/ takes exponential time depending on the position of an invalid percent-encoding: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132726
- Examples in pod do not work(?) Regexp::Common : https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129566
- IPv6 regexp fails to match address fd5d:5d93:4007:5a::aa:bb:80 : IPv6 regexp fails to match address fd5d:5d93:4007:5a::aa:bb:80
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://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libregexp-common-perl/2017060201-3/+build/24612542/+files/buildlog_ubuntu-lunar-amd64.libregexp-common-perl_2017060201-3_BUILDING.txt.gz :
   
      dh_auto_test
   	make -j4 test TEST_VERBOSE=1
   make[1]: 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 t/*/*.t
   
The package runs an autopkgtest (via autodep8 using 'Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl' in d/control file - https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libregexp-common-perl/tree/debian/control#n6 -),
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://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/l/libregexp-common-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/libregexp-common-
perl/tree/debian/control#n2)

This package does not yield massive lintian Warnings, Errors
  - recent build log of the package  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libregexp-common-perl/2017060201-3/+build/24612542/+files/buildlog_ubuntu-lunar-amd64.libregexp-common-perl_2017060201-3_BUILDING.txt.gz
  - full output from `lintian --pedantic` :
    #source
    ❯ lintian -EvIL +pedantic --show-overrides
      W: libregexp-common-perl: changelog-distribution-does-not-match-changes-file unstable != mantic [usr/share/doc/libregexp-common-perl/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
      W: libregexp-common-perl changes: distribution-and-changes-mismatch mantic unstable
    #binary
    ❯ lintian -EvIL +pedantic --show-overrides ../libregexp-common-perl_2017060201-3.dsc
      I: libregexp-common-perl source: out-of-date-standards-version 4.1.3 (released 2017-12-27) (current is 4.6.2)
      P: libregexp-common-perl source: silent-on-rules-requiring-root [debian/control]
      X: libregexp-common-perl source: debian-watch-does-not-check-openpgp-signature [debian/watch]
      X: libregexp-common-perl source: update-debian-copyright 2017 vs 2022 [debian/copyright:12]
      X: libregexp-common-perl source: very-long-line-length-in-source-file 1220 > 512 [lib/Regexp/Common/profanity.pm:15]


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/libregexp-common-
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 (4.1.3)

[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/26603532/+files/buildlog_ubuntu-mantic-
amd64.libregexp-common-perl_2017060201-3_BUILDING.txt.gz

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

This has been in the archive since at least 2006 (Feisty, 2.120-3). 
It's never had a bug filed against it in Launchpad.
It had only one bug filed in Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=641616

** Affects: libregexp-common-perl (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  [MIR] libregexp-common-perl (as a libmail-dmarc-perl dependency)

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