Binary package hint: subunit
Please include subunit in main.
subunit is a protocol for test activity serialisation/deserialisation. This permits executing tests remotely, or saving the result of test runs for later introspection. This source package provides libraries for various programming languages for parsing/generating subunit streams and command-line tools for manipulating and analysing subunit streams.
Subunit is a build dependency for bzr, bzrtools (both in main). At the moment the archive has versions of these packages that explicitly remove the build dependency on subunit for Ubuntu - having subunit in main would allow us to sync the Debian packages again.
All build dependencies of subunit are available in main. I am not aware of any nor could I find any previously recorded security problems with subunit. The libraries are installed in the usual locations for their programming languages, all binaries live in /usr/bin. There is no extra configuration required to use the tools.
The package uses dh and dh_python2 in a fairly standard manner, there are no major policy violations. The package is currently synced from Debian; the uploaders there are also active Ubuntu developers as well as upstream contributors.
There is one open bug in ubuntu about adding an extra Recommends (bug 525886), there are no open bugs for the package in Debian.
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