Review: flutter-engine 3.47.5+ds1-2
Package Information
| Description | Flutter GTK embedder library The embedder library that hosts Flutter applications in GTK applications. Upstream does not give this library a versioned SONAME. |
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| Maintainer | Debian Flutter Team <team+flutter@tracker.debian.org> |
| Changed By | Emfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org> |
| Sponsor | emfox@debian.org |
| Distribution | unstable |
| Architecture | amd64 arm64 armhf all |
| VCS | git: https://salsa.debian.org/dart-team/flutter-engine.git (browse) |
| Binary NEW | Yes (new binary packages of a source already in sid) |
| Tracker | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/flutter-engine |
| Uploaded | 13 days ago |
New Package Report
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| Distribution | unstable |
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| Date | Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:05:00 +0800 |
| Source | flutter-engine |
| Version | 3.47.5+ds1-2 |
| Changed-By | Emfox Zhou <emfox@debian.org> |
| Architecture | source amd64 all |
Changelog
flutter-engine (3.47.5+ds1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Build the platform kernel with the kernel compiler from the
dart-kernel-compiler package. The tool cannot be compiled here because
the repack leaves the Dart sources out.
* New binary packages: sky-engine, flutter-patched-sdk and flutter-tester,
the artefacts the Dart and Flutter tooling needs to resolve and run
Flutter code.
* Point the Dart tree at the dart-args and dart-path packages so that the
ui_web sources can be rewritten as upstream does.
* flutter-patched-sdk carries the product kernel that a release build
compiles as well as the JIT one.
* Build on armhf. The Dart SDK comes from the archive, so the prebuilts
upstream ships no longer limit the architectures; the gn script learns
what a 32-bit arm host is, and hard float without NEON matches the armhf
baseline..dsc
| Section | devel |
|---|---|
| Priority | optional |
| Component | main |
| Package-List | flutter-engine-font-subset deb devel optional arch=amd64,arm64,armhf flutter-engine-tools deb devel optional arch=amd64,arm64,armhf flutter-patched-sdk deb devel optional arch=all flutter-tester deb devel optional arch=amd64,arm64,armhf libflutter-engine-embedder deb libs optional arch=amd64,arm64,armhf libflutter-engine-embedder-dev deb libdevel optional arch=amd64,arm64,armhf libflutter-linux-gtk deb libs optional arch=amd64,arm64,armhf libflutter-linux-gtk-dev deb libdevel optional arch=amd64,arm64,armhf libflutter-linux-gtk-profile deb libs optional arch=amd64,arm64,armhf sky-engine deb devel optional arch=all |
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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.
Reviewed 13 days ago.
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DFSG NEW review for flutter-engine version 3.47.5+ds1-2
Summary
- Licensing is DFSG-compliant and
debian/copyrightis 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: 628 found (580 not listed by the scan, so not checked)
Licensing
The source is DFSG-compliant and debian/copyright (machine-readable DEP-5) accurately describes the tree. Every vendored component is matched by a specific Files stanza naming its primary copyright holder and correct licence (BSD-3-Clause for the Flutter engine and Skia, Apache-2.0 for BoringSSL/abseil/perfetto/wuffs/spirv-cross, MIT for json/inja/spring_animation/vulkan_memory_allocator, OFL-1.1 for Noto, CC0 for Ahem, public-domain for the IANA tzdata, and so on). No non-free terms were found: the scan's eight 'rare wording' hits are all API documentation or bundled licence texts, and there is no JSON 'Good, not Evil' clause, no CC-*-NC/-ND, and no non-commercial/no-modification licence. The 620 binary files are all test fixtures or data with clear provenance and are not installed into any binary package.
Packaging
The packaging is of high quality: a clean dh-style rules file building release/profile/debug via GN and ninja, sensible binary package split (embedder libraries, -dev, tools, font-subset, sky-engine, patched SDK, tester), DEP-3 patches with clear purposes and Forwarded headers, an autopkgtest smoke test for both embedders and the toolchain, a well-documented repack (README.source, assemble-orig.deps, get-orig-source.sh), and correct Build-Depends against the current clang-22/llvm-22 toolchain and Dart SDK. Standards-Version 4.7.4 is current. The only defect worth noting is the missing Multi-Arch: same on the shared-library and -dev packages.
Issues
minor packaging 1. libflutter-linux-gtk, libflutter-engine-embedder and their -dev packages lack Multi-Arch: same ◂
- Files:
debian/control:30,debian/control:39,debian/control:49,debian/control:56 - Basis: checked, in the package or with a reference tool
- Evidence: debian/libflutter-linux-gtk.install puts libflutter_linux_gtk.so in usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}, and debian/libflutter-engine-embedder.links puts a libflutter_engine.so symlink in usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}, yet none of the four packages declares a Multi-Arch field.
- Problem: A shared library installed under /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH} must be co-installable across architectures (Policy 5.6.34.3) so that cross-compiling a Flutter application for a foreign architecture can link against the target's headers and libraries via the shipped pkg-config files. Without Multi-Arch: same, only one architecture of each package can be installed at a time, breaking multiarch cross-builds.
- Fix: Add 'Multi-Arch: same' to the libflutter-linux-gtk, libflutter-linux-gtk-dev, libflutter-engine-embedder and libflutter-engine-embedder-dev binary package stanzas.
Verified ◂
- Read debian/copyright in full (496 lines): it is DEP-5 (Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/), with a Files-Excluded/Files-Included repack manifest, a Files: * catch-all, and ~35 specific stanzas, plus full License paragraphs for BSD-3-Clause, Apache-2.0, MIT, Khronos, FTL, CC-BY-4.0, OFL-1.1, public-domain, CC0-1.0, SGI-B-2.0 and Zlib.
- Read every file under debian/ (control, rules, changelog, patches/series, all 14 patches, source/format, tests/control and both tests, install/links/triggers/lintian-overrides, README.source, assemble-orig.deps, get-orig-source.sh, gbp.conf, clean, pc.in files, lrc.config, dart_package_config.json, upstream/metadata).
- The eight 'rare wording' prescan hits are all false positives, not licence terms: flutter/lib/ui/semantics.dart:1842, flutter/third_party/skia/include/core/SkTextBlob.h:328 and third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/strings/cord.h:216 are API-behaviour comments ('must not be changed'/'immutable' refers to runtime object state); third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/synchronization/internal/create_thread_identity.h:36 'For private use only' is an internal-API comment; flutter/sky/packages/sky_engine/LICENSE:23929/24124 and flutter/tools/licenses_cpp/data/licenses/libturbojpeg.txt:13 quote the IJG (libjpeg) licence, which is free; flutter/third_party/skia/gn/gn_to_bp.py:71 merely lists 'CC-BY-NC' in a comment of licence identifiers the script filters out.
- Grepped the whole tree (gitignore:false) for the JSON 'Good, not Evil' clause, non-commercial/noncommercial wording, and CC-BY-NC/BY-ND/NoDerivatives: no matches except the skia gn_to_bp.py comment above, so no non-free licence term is present (in particular the nlohmann JSON tree is the post-3.11 MIT version without the 'Good, not Evil' clause).
- The 620 unrecognised binary files are all test data or fixtures, none installed by any debian/.install file: third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/time/internal/cctz/testdata/zoneinfo/** (~580 files, IANA tzdata, covered by the 'public-domain' stanza naming Arthur David Olson); flutter/shell/platform/fuchsia/flutter/tests/tzdata/2019a/44/le/metaZones.res, flutter/shell/platform/fuchsia/flutter/tests/tzdata/2019a/44/le/timezoneTypes.res and flutter/shell/platform/fuchsia/flutter/tests/tzdata/2019a/44/le/zoneinfo64.res (compiled ICU-format resource files, test fixtures for the Fuchsia platform's timezone handling); flutter/shell/platform/linux/testing/gschemas/ubuntu-20.04.compiled (compiled GSettings schema fixture whose provenance from Ubuntu gsettings-desktop-schemas is documented in the adjacent README.md); flutter/testing/android/native_activity/debug.keystore (standard Android debug keystore); flutter/testing/rules/.gradle/6.5/fileChanges/last-build.bin (Gradle build-cache artifact); flutter/third_party/dart/third_party/perfetto/src/** descriptor files and fuzzer corpora (protobuf/fuzz test inputs); flutter/third_party/vulkan-deps/spirv-cross/src/tests-other/.spv (compiled SPIR-V shaders, test data); the seven fonts under flutter/txt/third_party/fonts/ are licensed in the copyright (OFL-1.1, Apache-2.0, CC0-1.0).
- The 211 'not named' copyright holders from dfsg-author-check are in bundled licence texts, not overlooked source files: the bulk are in flutter/sky/packages/sky_engine/LICENSE (a 29,844-line concatenation of third-party licence notices for the SDK, e.g. vulkan-validation-layers, fuchsia_sdk) and in flutter/tools/licenses_cpp/data/licenses/ and flutter/ci/licenses_golden/ fixtures; the handful in real source (e.g. Bjoern Hoehrmann in json serializer.hpp, Bradley Austin Davis in spirv_reflect.cpp, Brian Smith in boringssl montgomery_inv.cc.inc) are contributors to projects whose primary holder each stanza already names, and their embedded snippets carry the same or a compatible licence.
- Spot-checked the repack: Files-Excluded paths are genuinely absent (e.g. flutter/third_party/json has no tests/, docs/, cmake/, single_include/, LICENSES/; boringssl/src has no fuzz/, tool/, decrepit/; vulkan_memory_allocator has no src/, docs/, bin/), and the one Files-Included file (googletest gtest_prod.h) is matched by the googletest stanza.
- Build-Depends checked with apt-cache: clang-22, lld/llvm-22, generate-ninja, dart-sdk 3.13.4+dfsg1-6, dart-args and dart-path all exist in the archive; libre2-dev and libbenchmark-dev are correctly absent because the re2/benchmark shims are only pulled in by licenses_cpp and benchmark targets that debian/rules never builds (it names only gen_snapshot, impellerc, font-subset, libpath_ops.so, flutter_embedder.h, frontend_server_aot and flutter_tester).
- uscan found upstream releases with
debian/watch; a newer upstream version is available (upstream3.47.8, packaged3.47.5+ds1), which is not a fault of the package. - Every pointer of
debian/copyrightto /usr/share/common-licenses names a file that is there (Apache-2.0,CC-BY-4.0,CC0-1.0,OFL-1.1).
Not confirmed ◂
- dart-kernel-compiler (Build-Depends, and named in patch 0012 and debian/rules as the source of compile_platform_aot.dart.snapshot) is not in the package lists and is not among the uploads in ftp-master's NEW queue as of 2026-10-25; it is very likely a new companion package to dart-sdk accepted since the lists were refreshed, and its absence alone is not treated as a fault.
- The two text files over 4 MiB (only their first 4 MiB were scanned) were not fully re-read; both are licence/bundled-data dumps (flutter/sky/packages/sky_engine/LICENSE is one of them) already characterised above.
Proposed changes ◂
None.
Review Information
accepted — allocated to awm 13 days ago, started 13 days ago, completed 13 days ago.
Final Comment
Other Reviews of this Package
| Version | Hash | Allocated | Completed | Reviewer | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.47.5+ds1-1 | b7e885bb… | 2026-10-21 08:37 | 2026-10-21 08:39 | awm | accepted | VIEW |