Review: dart-characters 1.4.1-1
Package Information
| Description | String operations that are Unicode grapheme cluster aware This package ships the characters Dart library as sources so that other Dart packages can depend on it at build time. Strings are sequences of Unicode code points, but the characters a user perceives are grapheme clusters. This library splits strings into those clusters and iterates over them. |
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| Maintainer | Emfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org> |
| Changed By | Emfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org> |
| Sponsor | emfox@debian.org |
| Distribution | unstable |
| Architecture | all |
| VCS | git: https://salsa.debian.org/dart-team/dart-characters.git (browse) |
| Closes | #1151947 |
| Tracker | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dart-characters |
| Uploaded | 13 days ago |
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| Version | 1.4.1-1 |
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| Changed-By | Emfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org> |
| Architecture | source all |
| Distribution | unstable |
| Date | Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:56:49 +0800 |
| Source | dart-characters |
Changelog
dart-characters (1.4.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium . * Initial release. (Closes: #1151947)
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| Package-List | dart-characters deb devel optional arch=all |
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| Section | devel |
| Priority | optional |
| Component | main |
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: characters
Source: https://github.com/dart-lang/core/tree/main/pkgs/characters
Files: *
Copyright: 2019, the Dart project authors
License: BSD-3-clause
Files: lib/src/grapheme_clusters/table.dart
test/src/unicode_grapheme_tests.dart
Copyright: 2023, the Dart project authors
1991-2024, Unicode, Inc.
License: BSD-3-clause and Unicode-3.0
Comment: Generated code, its data derived from third_party/Unicode_Consortium.
Files: third_party/Unicode_Consortium/*
Copyright: 1991-2024, Unicode, Inc.
License: Unicode-3.0
Comment: lib/src/grapheme_clusters/table.dart is generated from these data
files; the generated code itself is licensed under BSD-3-clause.
Files: third_party/Wikipedia/*
Copyright: Wikipedia contributors
License: CC-BY-SA-3.0
Files: test/src/text_samples.dart
Copyright: 2019, the Dart project authors
2024, Wikipedia contributors
License: BSD-3-clause and CC-BY-SA-3.0
Comment: Contains a Hangul text sample taken from the Korean Wikipedia.
Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2026, Emfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org>
License: BSD-3-clause
License: BSD-3-clause
Copyright 2019, the Dart project authors.
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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:
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* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided
with the distribution.
* Neither the name of Google LLC nor the names of its
contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
from this software without specific prior written permission.
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THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
License: Unicode-3.0
UNICODE LICENSE V3
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COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSION NOTICE
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Copyright © 1991-2024 Unicode, Inc.
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NOTICE TO USER: Carefully read the following legal agreement. BY
DOWNLOADING, INSTALLING, COPYING OR OTHERWISE USING DATA FILES, AND/OR
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO NOT
DOWNLOAD, INSTALL, COPY, DISTRIBUTE OR USE THE DATA FILES OR SOFTWARE.
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software and any associated documentation (the "Software") to deal in the
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copies of the Data Files or Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Data Files or Software are furnished to do so, provided that either (a)
this copyright and permission notice appear with all copies of the Data
Files or Software, or (b) this copyright and permission notice appear in
associated Documentation.
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MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF
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BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, OR ANY SPECIAL INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES,
OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION,
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FILES OR SOFTWARE.
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Except as contained in this notice, the name of a copyright holder shall
not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
dealings in these Data Files or Software without prior written
authorization of the copyright holder.
License: CC-BY-SA-3.0
On Debian systems, the complete text of the CC BY-SA 3.0 license can be
found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/CC-BY-SA-3.0".
DFSG Assistant LLM REVIEW 0 blocker, 0 important, 0 minor
This is an LLM based review using a Debian Inference based workflow. It was not written by a member of the DFSG team and has not been checked by one. It is not a decision on the package: it may be wrong, and it may have missed things.
Reviewed 13 days ago.
Report
DFSG NEW review for dart-characters version 1.4.1-1
Summary
- Licensing is DFSG-compliant and
debian/copyrightis accurate: Yes - Packaging is of good quality: Yes
- Issues: 0 blocker, 0 important, 0 minor
- debian/watch: version 5
- debian/copyright: machine-readable
- Scan before the review: nothing found
Licensing
The source is DFSG-free. debian/copyright is machine-readable (DEP-5, copyright-format 1.0) and its Files: stanzas accurately cover the tree: the Dart project sources under BSD-3-clause, the Unicode Consortium data files and the generated code derived from them under the Unicode License V3, and the Wikipedia Hangul sample under CC-BY-SA-3.0. All licence texts that are not in /usr/share/common-licenses are reproduced in full, and the licences combined in the installed sources are compatible.
Packaging
Packaging is clean and minimal: a single Architecture: all source-shipping binary package, built with debhelper compat 14 and dh-sequence-single-binary, Standards-Version 4.7.4 (current Policy is 4.7.4.1), correct Vcs-* and upstream metadata, a working autopkgtest smoke test, and a reproducible-build timestamp fix in rules. No policy violations or upgrade concerns found.
Issues
None.
Verified ◂
- Prescan holder 'Unicode®, Inc. / Unicode and the Unicode Logo are registered trademarks of Unicode, Inc.' appears in the UCD header of
third_party/Unicode_Consortium/{DerivedCoreProperties.txt, GraphemeBreakProperty.txt, GraphemeBreakTest.txt, emoji_data.txt, emoji_test.txt}; the holder 'Unicode, Inc.' is already named in theFiles: third_party/Unicode_Consortium/*stanza (Copyright: 1991-2024, Unicode, Inc.), so nothing is missing. - Generated code
lib/src/grapheme_clusters/table.dartandtest/src/unicode_grapheme_tests.dartare produced by the generators shipped intool/(tool/bin/generate_tables.dart,tool/bin/generate_tests.dart) from thethird_party/Unicode_Consortiumdata files, so their preferred form (generator input) is present; their dualBSD-3-clause and Unicode-3.0stanza matches the file headers. - The Hangul sample in
test/src/text_samples.dartis sourced fromthird_party/Wikipedia/hangul.txt(Korean Wikipedia) and is correctly dual-licensedBSD-3-clause and CC-BY-SA-3.0in its own stanza. - All Dart source files (lib/, test/, benchmark/, example/, tool/) carry 'Copyright (c) , the Dart project authors' BSD-style notices matching the
Files: *stanza; minor year drift (2018/2020/2023/2024 vs 2019) is immaterial. /usr/share/common-licenses/CC-BY-SA-3.0exists, so the pointer in the CC-BY-SA-3.0 licence stanza is valid.- uscan found the packaged version as the newest upstream release (upstream
1.4.1, packaged1.4.1). - Every pointer of
debian/copyrightto /usr/share/common-licenses names a file that is there (CC-BY-SA-3.0).
Not confirmed ◂
None.
Proposed changes ◂
None.
Uploader's response to the LLM review
The uploader was emailed about the review 13 days ago.
Review Information
accepted — allocated to awm 13 days ago, started 13 days ago, completed 13 days ago.