[Bug 344642] Re: MIR - include aria2

[Leung, Kai-Cheung]

1. Availability:

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/a/aria2/

for all architectures

2. Rationale:
Aria2 supports multithreaded segmented download, thus greatly speed up
download.  Also it has support for http(s), ftp and bittorrent protocol
and allow downloading of a file using multiple protocols at the same time

http://aria2.sourceforge.net/

aria2 actually supercedes wget and users should be encourage to use aria2
instead of wget. by including aria2 into main, we can encourage users to
use aria2 instead of wget.

3. Security
no CVE or secunia entries found for aria2
no binaries run at root or suid/sgids, no daemons
Network activity: download of the above protocol
only download data, but does not process files

4. QA
package always work out of the box
- no debconf questions asked
- no significant bugs in debian or ubuntu (other than "no IPv6 support")
- upstream updates approximately eveery 6 month-1 year
- good debianand ubuntu support
- the universe package was automatically ported from debian

5. UI:
- text-only

6. standards compliance:
complies to FHS, Debian policy and debian library packageing guide
lintian check shows no error or warnings

7. Dependencies:
      libc-ares2
          library for asyncronous name resolves

      dep: libc6 (>= 2.4)
          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
          also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb

      dep: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1)
          GCC support library

      dep: libgcrypt11 (>= 1.4.0)
          LGPL Crypto library - runtime library

      dep: libgnutls26 (>= 2.4.0-0)
          the GNU TLS library - runtime library

      dep: libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.6.10)
          SQLite 3 shared library

      dep: libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1)
          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

      dep: libxml2 (>= 2.6.27)
          GNOME XML library

      dep: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
          compression library - runtime

all in main except libc-ares2.

I will file a separate MIR report for libc-ares2 shortly.  This should be
eassy because libc-ares2 only depends on libc6.

8. Maintenance
simple package needs very little maintenance.  Currently looked after by
Ubuntu MOTU developers, because it is automatically synced from debian

Quoting Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com>:

> Hm, there are certainly several download tools in the universe, but
> what
> would be gained with including it in main? Do you want to maintain it?
>
> Please create a complete main inclusion report if you want to pursue
> this.
>
> ** Changed in: aria2 (Ubuntu)
>        Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
> --
> MIR - include aria2
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/344642
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