Review: dart-material-color-utilities 0.13.0+ds-1

Package Information

Description	Algorithms that power the Material Design 3 colour system This package ships the material_color_utilities Dart library as sources so that other Dart packages can depend on it at build time. It picks theme colours from an image, creates tonal palettes and converts colours between ARGB, HCT and other colour spaces, following the Material Design 3 specification.
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-material-color-utilities.git (browse)
Closes	#1151949
Tracker	https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dart-material-color-utilities
Uploaded	4 hours ago

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Version	0.13.0+ds-1
Changed-By	Emfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org>
Architecture	source all
Distribution	unstable
Date	Sun, 25 Oct 2026 11:15:00 +0800
Source	dart-material-color-utilities

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dart-material-color-utilities (0.13.0+ds-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Initial release. (Closes: #1151949)
   * Drop the upstream screenshots, which only illustrate the README,
     from the source package.

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Section	devel
Priority	optional
Component	main
Package-List	dart-material-color-utilities deb devel optional arch=all

debian/copyright◂

Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: material_color_utilities
Source: https://github.com/material-foundation/material-color-utilities/tree/main/dart
Files-Excluded: screenshots
Comment: The screenshots directory only holds images used by the upstream
 README and is dropped from the repacked upstream archive.

Files: *
Copyright: 2021-2023, Google LLC
License: Apache-2.0

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2026, Emfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org>
License: Apache-2.0

License: Apache-2.0
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the Apache License 2.0 can be found
 in "/usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0".

DFSG Assistant LLM REVIEW 0 blocker, 0 important, 1 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.

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DFSG NEW review for dart-material-color-utilities version 0.13.0+ds-1

Summary

Licensing is DFSG-compliant and debian/copyright is accurate: Yes
Packaging is of good quality: Yes
Issues: 0 blocker, 0 important, 1 minor
debian/watch: version 5
debian/copyright: machine-readable
Scan before the review: nothing found

Licensing

The entire source tree is Apache-2.0, authored by Google LLC. Every .dart file carries an Apache-2.0 header naming Google LLC as holder, and the top-level LICENSE is the full Apache License 2.0 text. debian/copyright is machine-readable DEP-5 and correctly covers every file: a Files: * stanza naming Google LLC under Apache-2.0, an overriding Files: debian/* stanza for the packaging, and a stand-alone License paragraph referring to /usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0. No non-free terms, no files lacking a licence, and no built/minified/precompiled files were found.

Packaging

Clean single-binary source-only packaging of a Dart library. debian/control uses debhelper-compat 14 with dh-sequence-single-binary, Standards-Version 4.7.4 (current), Architecture all with Multi-Arch foreign, and a correct Depends on dart-collection (imported by lib/palettes/tonal_palette.dart and lib/score/score.dart; present in the archive). rules is the standard dh $@ plus a sensible override stamping installed directories with SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. The changelog closes the ITP, the install file places sources under /usr/share/dart/packages, and there is a meaningful offline autopkgtest smoke test exercising HCT round-trip and scheme generation.

Issues

1. [minor] [packaging] The repack suffix is not removed before versions are compared

Files: debian/watch
Basis: found by the review tooling's own checks
Evidence: uscan compares 0.13.0+ds+ds with upstream's 0.13.1 (status: newer package available)
Problem: The packaged version carries a repack suffix that debian/watch does not remove before comparing, so uscan compares it as it is with upstream's version and never finds them equal.
Fix: Remove the suffix for the comparison, with Dversion-Mangle: auto (version 5) or dversionmangle=auto (version 4).

Verified

Prescan (dfsg-author-check) reported no missing copyright holders: only Google LLC and Emfox Zhou (debian/*) are declared, and every holder found in the tree is named.
All 64 scanned files (lib/, test/, example/, plus root config files) are Apache-2.0 with Google LLC as the sole upstream holder; sampled every copyright-bearing file in lib/, test/ and example/ via grep and confirmed the Apache-2.0 header.
The full Apache License 2.0 text is shipped at LICENSE and referenced from /usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0 in debian/copyright, so no full text needs inlining.
The screenshots directory named in Files-Excluded is absent from the tree (repacked +ds archive); no images, fonts, archives, bytecode, or minified files present.
The smoke test's declared package dart-collection (1.19.1-2) and dart-sdk are in the archive; collection is imported via package:collection.
No patches (no debian/patches directory), no maintainer scripts or *.maintscript, no dirs/links/docs files; nothing further to review there.
uscan found upstream releases with debian/watch; a newer upstream version is available (upstream 0.13.1, packaged 0.13.0+ds), which is not a fault of the package.
Every pointer of debian/copyright to /usr/share/common-licenses names a file that is there (Apache-2.0).

Not confirmed

None.

Proposed changes